Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Mrs Chilton's Sing Along

Hi Tigers and Monkeys,

Mrs Chilton here! I have recorded a special sing along for you to take part in! I am missing you all so much and am looking forward to seeing you all soon! I can't wait to hear your songs!

Click me!

Sing GIFs | Tenor
Love

Mrs Chilton

Monday, April 27, 2020

Reception Email


Week 6 super learning Challenges

Hi Tigers and Monkeys!!
We hope that you are enjoying our learning challenges - we are trying to keep them super fun, because we all know how much Tiger's and Monkeys love to have fun!!

We have some special messages for you this week from our favourite friends in Reception!





We've also loved speaking to lots of you on the phone - it has been lovely to hear how busy you have all been. It's also been great to receive lots of fantastic photographs to show us what you have been getting upto! Here are some pictures of some of your friends - who can you see ? what do you think they have been doing ??









If you have some pictures you would like to send us - reception@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk


Week 5 super learning challenges

This weeks phonics learning - please use this fantastic resource below. A new phonics sessions will be uploaded every day at the given times !



Don't forget our letter rhymes to help support your letter formation:



Maths Challenges: 

This week we are beginning to be learning all about time.

Monday
You have some super time challenges to complete, you will need a grown up and a timer (you can access a countdown timer on a phone / tablet ).
You are going to complete some activities in 30 seconds , can you make a recording sheet like the one below ? 



Before you start can you have a prediction (guess) how many will you be able to do ? count as you do them to see how many you can achieve , your grown up will be able to help! write this number on your sheet to show how many.

Did you achieve more or less than you predicted ? which activity did you complete the most of ? which did you complete the least of ? Now for a little more fun - can your grown up have a try ? you can count and record them!

Tuesday

Today you are going to watch a brilliant story - there are lots of opportunities to think about time in this story! Make your self comfy, put your best looking eyes and listening ears on.

In this story you will hear some days of the week - can you remember any days of the week ? listen our for them, when you hear one you can out your thumbs up !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY


Which days of the week did you hear ? What time of day was it at the beginning of the story ? how do you know ? what could you see? Can you say the names of the days in the correct order? which day comes after Monday ? Which day do we do PE at school ?


Wednesday

Today we're going to continue with yesterdays learning about the hungry caterpillar. Can you remember the days of the week ? Ask your grown up to help you write them down on little cards. Can you now use your cards to put them into the correct order ?




Sing our days of the week song to help you ..... (to the tune of the Adam's Family) 

Days of the week (clap, clap) x2
days of the week, days of the week , days of the week (clap,clap)
There's a Monday and  Tuesday, a Wednesday and a Thursday, a Friday and a Saturday and then there's Sunday too
days of the week, days of the week , days of the week (clap,clap)  

Can you remember and draw the correct number of fruits on each days ? you can watch the video again to help you !

Which day did he eat the most fruit ?
Which day did he eat the least fruit ?
How much fruit did he eat on Monday and Wednesday ??
Challenge : Can you write the number sentence to go with this ? eg on Monday and Tuesday he ate 1 apple and 2 Pears ...... 1+2 =3

Extra tricky challenge : I have added all of the fruit on 2 of the days. My total is 6. Which days do you think I added together? Could there be another answer?

Thursday




There are many different ways of telling the time, talk to your grown up about these e.g wall clocks, alarm clocks, watches.Look around your house to see how many different types of these you can find. 

Can you find a clock ? look carefully, what numbers can you see around the clock ? can you count them. Ask you grown up to draw a circle shape in your learning book - you could draw around something to help! Ask them to draw a line where each of the numbers should go. Can you go around the clock and write the numbers in ?
Have a look at the clock now - can you see the 'hands' of the clock ? what numbers are they pointing too? ask your grown up to tell you the time!

Tricky Challenge: On a clock there is a big hand a little hand, have a look at yours - can you see them ? The big Hand is the 'minutes' and the little hand it the 'hour' hand. We're going to think about learning to tell the time by the hour (o'clock) - there's a little rhyme to help... 'when the big hand is at the top, the time is O'clock'. Then we need to check the little hand to tell us the hour. 

These are some 0'clock times.....Can you say what time it is ?



Keep checking the clock at home - ask your grown ups to challenge you to say the o'clock time!


Friday!

It's fun Fridays !! Well done for completing your learning challenges this week ! We hope you have had lots of fun!

This Friday we have a great challenge we know you will love! Everyone knows that Tigers and Monkeys are the best dancers at Hill Top and we we also know that everything is better when we are dancing ! This weeks challenge is to have a great dance and boogie to Miss Hanson and Miss Wilcox's favourite song. 

Your could get your grown ups to film your best dance moves and email them to us ! We'd love to see them!! Enjoy and have the most fun!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npdg21rjowU









Saturday, April 25, 2020

Friday, April 24, 2020

"We have created our own little family in school and thank everyone for keeping us safe."

Hello Reception,

We hope you are staying safe and well. We thought we would share with you some of the exciting things that our lovely children have been up to this week with Mrs Roberts, Miss Wilcox and Mrs Shaw, in case you wanted to try out any of them!

1. Building masks from cardboard and paint.
2. Making balloon models using modelling balloons and you tube tutorial, 
3. Making hugs to send to someone who needs one. 
(Mrs Roberts sent one to Mrs Rodgers and Miss Wilcox sent one to Miss Hanson) Even grown ups need a hug sending!


4. Made a rainbow of hands which we have displayed in the hall window for you to see when you enter via the hall doors,


5. Playing on the gym equipment and shark attack. 

6. Today we had our very own sports day with everyone receiving a certificate and an ice pop in the sun.


“We have created our own little family in school and thank everyone for keeping us safe.”


Are the words that have been shared this week.

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Mrs Macleod's Story Time

Hello everybody!

I hope you are all well and staying safe. I am missing you all so much so I have decided to read you a special story! My special story contains a dinosaur who is very hungry... Can you guess the title?

Clink on the link below to see!

Mrs Macleod's Story Time

Take Care and Stay Safe

Mrs Macleod

Sunday, April 19, 2020

DT Challenge

Tigers and Monkeys learning challenges scroll down !

DT Challenge

Who is up for a challenge? Who wants to be creative?

Mrs Roberts is setting a DT challenge with awards for each year group – your challenge is to either:

1. plan, make and evaluate a model based on a book using junk/recyclable materials.

2. Plan, make and evaluate a meal based on a book (including recipe and instructions).

Examples:
Lighthouse from Lighthouse Keepers Lunch
Tiger Mask from The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
Green eggs and Ham: Deviled Green Eggs and Ham
Mr Popper’s Penguins: Penguin cupcakes
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory: Blueberry Ice cream

Don’t forget to Take pictures!

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Miss Hanson's Story Time

Hi Tigers and Monkeys

It has been great to speak to you on the phone this week and hear all about what you have been getting up to !

I really enjoyed listening to Miss Wilcox's story, I hope you did too! As I promised , it is my turn to share a story with you this week! I can't wait until we can have story time together again, snuggled in front of the cosy 'fire'! . But until then, here's a little story I thought you might enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15EH4ZxR3g

Lots of Love

Miss Hanson




Friday, April 17, 2020

Week 5 - Super Learning Challenges

Hi Tigers and Monkeys! We hope you have had a lovely Easter and enjoyed last week's super creative challenges! We hope you are ready for some more super learning challenges this week! Miss Hanson and I cannot wait to see all of the wonderful things you have been doing! Keep safe Tigers and Monkeys.

Here is out new email address :
You can send us some pictures of the fab things you have been doing!

reception@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk

P.S Don't forget to keep your eyes peeled for a special story time which will be uploaded each week! Miss Hanson's Story was posted a the weekend! scroll down to find it !

Lots of Love Miss Wilcox and Miss Hanson xx

Monday

Phonics - Today's phonics challenge is for your different phonics group! Can you remember which grown up you do phonics learning with? Is it Miss Hanson or Miss Wilcox? Check out your learning challenges below!

Miss Hanson -  Today we are learning digraph 'ng' like in the word l-o-ng.  Click on the link to see our friend Geraldine learning the digraph!  Geraldine Giraffe 'ng'

Can you think of any other words which might have the 'ng' sound in? Can you segment the sounds in these words?

Time for some super blending! Your grown up's are going to write 5 words in your super learning book! Your challenge is to underline the 'ng' digraph. Once you have completed this can you blend the sounds to read the words? Remember to say each sound and repeat the sounds if you are not sure the first time!
song        wing       sing     bang    ring 


Miss Wilcox -  Today we are learning digraph 'ow' like in the word c-ow. Click on the link to see our friend Geraldine learning the digraph!      Geraldine Giraffe 'ow'

Can you think of any other words which might have the 'ow' sound in? Can you segment the sounds in these words?

Time for some super blending! Your grown up's are going to write 5 words in your super learning book! Your challenge is to underline the 'ow' digraph. Once you have completed this can you blend the sounds to read the words? Remember to say each sound and repeat the sounds if you are not sure the first time!
owl         cow       gown        clown      howl 


Maths - Time to be number detectives and embark on a number hunt! Can you go on a hunt around your house to find numbers! How many different numbers can you find in your house? Can you record these in your learning book? What is the smallest number you can find? Which is the biggest? Can you choose 3 or 4 numbers and put them in order from smallest to biggest?  Can you choose 2 numbers and add them together to find the total?


Tuesday 

Phonics - We are going to continue to explore blending for reading! Log into the Oxford Owl site using your log in details and choose a book (the colour band on your sheet.) Can you talk about the front cover, the blurb, who the characters are and where the story might be set? You could read your story to a grown up, your brother or sister or even a teddy bear! Remember to look for digraphs and tricky words when reading. Are there any words you are unsure of? What do these words mean?
You could record all of the book you are reading in your super learning book! You could even write a sentence about what you have read, 

Maths - Can you count how many people live in your house? Can you record this in your book? How many eyes are there in your house? How many noses? How many toes? Can you add the number of eyes and noses together? Can you write this as a number sentence? You could even draw the eyes and noses to help you combine the groups to find the total.


Wednesday 

Phonics -Today's phonics challenge is for your different phonics group! Can you remember which grown up you do phonics learning with? Is it Miss Hanson or Miss Wilcox? Check out your learning challenges below!

Miss Hanson -   Today we are learning digraph 'or' like in the word t-or-ch. Click on the link to see our friend Geraldine learning the digraph!      Geraldine Giraffe 'or'

Can you think of any other words which might have the 'or' sound in? Can you segment the sounds in these words?

Time for some super segmenting! Your grown up's will tell you a word, your challenge is to segment the sounds in the word and write this in your super learning book! Remember to use your super segmenting hands and your phonics mat!
fork     porch     short    born   

Challenge: Can you choose a word and write a super sentence? You could write 
I can see a thorn. 
The man is short. 

Miss Wilcox - Today we are learning the digraph 'oi' like in the word c-oi-n. Click on the link to see our friend Geraldine learning the digraph! Geraldine Giraffe 'oi'

Can you think of any other words which might have the 'oi' sound in? Can you segment the sounds in these words?

Time for some super segmenting! Your grown up's will tell you a word, your challenge is to segment the sounds in the word and write this in your super learning book! Remember to use your super segmenting hands and your phonics mat!
oil     foil    boiling    join     coil 

Challenge: Can you choose a word and write a super sentence? You could write 
I can join the band. 
The coil is wet and black. 

Maths - Can you warm your brains up by completing the counting to 100 song! Count to 100

Now you are ready! Today we are going to explore using positional language! All you need is a teddy and a chair! Your grown ups are going to give you some challenges using positional language! They might ask you to put the teddy on the chair. They might ask you to put the teddy under on topnext to, in front or behind the chair! For an extra challenge your grown's up might introduce left and right. You could even explore positional language in your garden! Go and stand next to the plant pot or the tree!


Thursday
Phonics - Tricky word Thursday! Can you warm your brains up by singing the tricky song or by looking at your tricky word cards? Tricky Words!
Once your brain is nice and warm log into phonics play using your log in details and play the tricky word trucks game using your phase 2/3 or 4 tricky words. Are there any tricky words you have found tricky? If so you could practice writing these in your learning book. Remember to sing the rhyme to help you! 


Maths -  Today we are going to look at the number 10! Click on the link to see today's challenge. Can you answer the questions as the video plays. Your grown's up can pause the video to help you complete the challenges. You could record this into your learning book. Number of the day 10!


Fun Friday!
We know how much you love dancing and grooving Tigers and Monkeys! So today your challenge is to complete the Go Noodle dances and the Cosmic Kids Yoga session! Here are some of our favourite Go Noodle and Cosmic Kids for you to try! 
Miss Wilcox's favourite - Get Yo Body Movin!
Miss Hanson's favourite - Pop Se Ko
Cosmic Kids - Squish the Fish!


We also love squiggle while you wiggle and Dough Disco! Our friend the Dough Disco lady Shonette Bason Wood is holding daily live Dough Disco sessions at 9:30 every day! Even if you haven't got any play dough you could still join in, strenghten those muscles and have a giggle! 

Thank you Key Workers

Our lovely children have created a video this week for all our wonderful key-workers!
Thank you for all the amazing work that you are doing in keeping our country safe during these unprecedented times.
A big thank you to Miss Hanson, Miss James, Miss Mee and our wonderful children.





Monday, April 13, 2020

Story Time

Hi Tigers and Monkeys I hope you are all well, I have a special treat for you today! 
I have recorded a special story for you to enjoy! Keep your eyes peeled for a dragon you might know!
I hope you enjoy the story, get comfy and click the link below to watch! 
Click me!
Lots of Love Miss Wilcox x 





















Week 4 - Super Learning

Hello Tigers and Monkeys! We hope you are well and have had a lovely Easter! I hope you have not eaten too much chocolate! 
For this week’s learning – we would love you to be super creative and have a go at some of these ideas!
If you would like to share your learning with us, you could ask your grown-ups to upload photographs to Twitter or Facebook with the #HillTopReception so that we can see them! 
Lots of Love Miss Wilcox & Miss Hanson 

How to make rainbow toast – http://www.preschool-play.com/rainbow-toast/




Can you collect some natural resources on your daily walk or in your garden and create some spring pictures?
Can you make a tree using resources in your garden? You could use leaves, petals, grass or twigs!



Can you spell your name using twigs, leaves or stones? You could even try to spell your first and your last name! 
At school we love to make potions in the water tray so here is your challenge! Can you create your own magic potion? What will your potion do? Will it make you invisible or jump really high? You could even list the ingredients you have used in your special book! Remember that your potion is just pretend you can't really drink it! 
Can you make your own paint brush to paint a wonderful outdoor picture?
Can you find a flower in your garden? Can you draw a picture of your flower in your special book?  Remember to look carefully at the petals, stem and leaves. Can you tell your grown up's about the different parts of the flower you can see? You could even try to label your super drawing! 
We can't wait to see what you create! Check back soon for next week's super learning and a special story from Miss Wilcox and Miss Hanson! 
Stay Safe Tigers and Monkeys! x

Friday, April 10, 2020

Mrs Clark reads The Easter Story

Happy Easter everyone.
For story time this week, I have chosen to read the Easter Story.  Easter is a significant period in the Christian calendar and we cover this within the Religious Education strand of our curriculum.
I hope that you enjoy the story and recognise why we celebrate this special time of year.
Lots of love
Mrs Clark xx


Thursday, April 9, 2020

We Miss You!

Children of Edlington - You Are Awesome!

WATCH OUR MUSIC VIDEO!



Today the pupils coming to Hill Top created a music video to send their support to all of the children of Edlington and to celebrate how wonderful you all are!
We hope that you enjoy it!
From
Miss Robinson



Special thanks to Mrs Dyer, Mrs Rogers and Miss Wood for helping to make the video and for providing a wonderful week in school for our children.

Friday, April 3, 2020

Week 3

Hi Tigers and Monkeys! We hope you enjoyed last week's learning challenges! Miss Hanson and I have some new tricky challenges for you to complete this week! 
We hope you are enjoying PE with Joe Wicks! Miss Hanson and I have been trying our best to keep up! It''s very tricky. We cannot wait to see you Tigers and Monkeys. We miss you all so much! Stay safe and keep checking back here for super learning challenges and surprises! 
Lots of Love Miss Wilcox and Miss Hanson xx 

Monday 
Phonics - Todays challenge is for your different phonics groups! Ask you child if they do phonics learning with Miss.Hanson or Miss Wilcox. These are your challenges below.

Miss Hanson: today we are learning digraph 'ee' like in the word sh-ee-p. Watch the link for Geraldine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfM7Hz7US0U

Can you think of any other words that have the 'ee' phoneme in?
Now time for super segmenting :Grown ups will tell you a word with 'ee' in. Can you segment the sounds (remember to use your segmenting hands) and write them in your book.

sheep       peep      meet      keep


Miss Wilcox : today we are learning digraph 'ar' like in the word c-ar . Watch the link for Geraldine

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=geraldine+ar

Can you think of any other words that have the 'ar' phoneme in?
Now time for super segmenting :Grown ups will tell you a word with 'ar' in. Can you segment the sounds (remember to use your segmenting hands) and write them in your book.

car          bark          park         star         parking         garden        farmyard


Maths -  Ask your grown up's to create some number lines in your learning book with numbers missing! Can you work out which number is missing? If this is too easy your grown up's could miss 2 or 3 numbers out! Remember to use your counting skills to check which numbers are missing! 


Tuesday 

Phonics - Tricky word Tuesday! We are going to play Bingo today! Choose a set of tricky/key words (from your key word set) Then ask your grown up to shout out a tricky/key word. Can you find it on your board? Do you have this tricky/key word? If not keep listening! When you have found all of the words you can shout BINGO! You could even give yourself a round of applause!
Challenge: If the sun is shining you could explore the outdoor area with a paintbrush to practice writing your tricky/key words! If you don't have a paintbrush don't worry a stick or a twig works just as great! If the sun is not shining you could practice writing your words in your super learning book!


Maths - Time to get dancing! Scatter your number cards on the floor. Play your favourite song to dance too. When the music stops your grown up has to shout a number for you to find! If this is too easy you could find 1 more/less than a number or even 2/3 more/less!



Wednesday 



Phonics - It's time to snuggle up with a great book. Get lots of cushions and blankets and make yourself a cosy den. You can choose your own story book or go to oxford owl and select one. Share your story with a grown up.
Can you talk about the story afterwards? what happened in the story ? who were the characters ? go back and look at the pages. Can you be a digraph or a tricky word detective ? Use your super looking eyes to spy digraphs and tricky words.

We know how much you all love the Julia Donaldson stories . Here's one of our favourite stories for you to snuggle up and watch ! Listen out for all of the lovely rhyming words.




https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0102qfj



Maths - We're going on a nature hunt !! During your daily exercise time outside / walk we would like you to try and find sticks or twigs that are different sizes. Save these and when you can home your challenge is to order them from the shortest to the longest.

Thursday 

Phonics -  Phonics - Todays challenge is for your different phonics groups! Ask you child if they do phonics learning with Miss.Hanson or Miss Wilcox. These are your challenges below.

Miss Hanson: today we are learning digraph 'oa' like in the word s-oa-p. Watch the link for Geraldine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCJyHN0IFE8

Can you think of any other words that have the 'oa' phoneme in?
Now time for super segmenting :Grown ups will tell you a word with 'oa' in. Can you segment the sounds (remember to use your segmenting hands) and write them in your book.

soap              boat            goat           goal            foal    

Extra challenge : can you write a simple sentence ?
eg. it is a boat 

Say you sentence 3 times to help you remember what you need to write


Miss Wilcox : today we are learning digraph 'or' like in the word f-or-k Watch the link for Geraldine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm9PRHDJlv4

Can you think of any other words that have the 'or' phoneme in?
Now time for super segmenting :Grown ups will tell you a word with 'or' in. Can you segment the sounds (remember to use your segmenting hands) and write them in your book.

fork            torch          sort         porch       passport

Extra challenge : choose a word and write a simple sentence 
eg. I can sort it. 
Could you use any of your tricky words in the sentence? I have a fork



Maths - Eyes down, It's real bingo time! Today you will need your number cards 1-20 and some paper . You will need a bingo caller and players .Each person who is playing needs to choose and write down 6 numbers 1-20 on some paper . Now it's time to play. The caller needs to shuffle the number cards and pop them into a bag , then pull one out. Do you have this number ?? tick it off. The first person to get all of their numbers is the winner !


Fun Friday!
Today you are going to become Scientists! Today we are going to explore floating and sinking! Can you make a list of things around your house that float and things that do not float! Before you experiment with the objects can you predict which objects will float and which will sink? Did any of the objects trick you?

Extra Challenge: if your grown ups have some tin foil you could try and to make your own simple boat. Can you make the boat sink ? If you ask your grown ups really nicely they might let you use some money coins (1p,2p,5p,10p) . Place the coins in the boat until it sinks.

Can you say which coins you are using - remember to look for the clues on the coins to help!
Tricky Challenge : can you add the total of all of your coins all together ? how much money did you use?