What a fun and busy Tuesday we have had.
Happy Birthday McKayla - we enjoyed celebrating your special day with you :)
Literacy Morning
Today we started our day with ‘Come Read with Me’ – please remember your reading bag each day so there are plenty of options and opportunities for sharing books. Thank you
Then we talked about the letter ‘Nn’ – formation and sounds and then we created a list of words which had the ‘n’ sound at the beginning, middle and end. The different sounds we are exploring are enabling us to build words (so it is important to hear the sounds in parts of a word) e.g. p -a-n
The children enjoyed a brain break and we shared our letter ‘n’ introduction text. This text also revisits our previous sounds and introduces the children to word building using those sounds.
Then we moved into our High frequency word review and handwriting. The children used their books and also a large piece of paper for these tasks.
As the paper was out on the floor – after recess we used the medium of drawing for relaxation to enter the class for learning. The children drew spirals, lines, zig zags and other shapes.
We turned over the paper and used a picture of the ‘cat in a hat’ as a prompt for our rocket writing time. This is a time when we encourage the children to be confident writers and just write (use their knowledge of words and sounds and have a go). This was also a very collaborative time as friends near by helped each other. The children drew pictures, wrote phrase, words and pictures.
Numeracy
As a group as watched a clip about counting by 2’s – we talked about how it is quicker to count to a big number by 2’s and even quicker to count to 20 by 5’s and 10’s.
When the children lined up for Spanish we skipped a child and counted by 2’s.
The children in reception explored making groups. The children in Year 1 sorted objects into groups of 2 and counting by 2’s.
The children recorded their understanding in their numeracy book.
