What a wonderful week of learning in R PN and R MR.

Some of the highlights from Week 3.

English

This week we learnt about the letter ‘Tt’ and the letter ‘Pp’. We explored letter formation, the sounds the letters make and words which begin with each letter. After the handwriting task we engage in a fine motor activity which strengthens coordination to support the formation of each letter. Fine motor activities are important for the coordination and manipulation of writing tools and scissors. This week we made a turtle from cardboard and a paper plate threading pan.

Letter Tt

Letter – “Pp”

You might enjoy sharing this story together at home: Shared Text – Pig the Pug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN0PuuxdgMY

Handwriting and fine motor activity.

Threading around a paper plate to make a frying pan with fat sausages sizzling in it.

Book Making

Our amazing authors are continuing to create wonderful books about topics of interest. The children are also being brave 4 and 5 year old spellers as they add words to their books. The children are becoming familiar with our book making session routine – we begin with a a mini lesson, where an aspect about book making is intentionally taught (this week it was about books have words and pictures and what do we do when we finish our books?), followed by a writing session and then finishing off with a sharing circle, where we celebrate and consolidate learning.

Numeracy

Number Line: This week we explored number formation and sequencing of numbers to 10. To explore this concept one of the activities we did was to create a number line.

Number Song

10 fat sausages sizzling in a pan

This week our focus is on numbers- 1 to 10 – order, formation and quantity.

After we sang the rhyme the students drew their own representation of the rhyme.

Art

Creating our background for our self portraits – “We all Belong”

Today we used water wash paint and crayons to create a piece of art work which will be the back ground for our display.

Play Investigations

Play Investigations is an important part of our day where the children building upon life long dispositions for learning. These include:

Leadership
Problem solving
Persistence
Creativity
Communication
Collaboration

Some questions to ask your child:

Who did you play with?
What things or materials did you use in your play?
Did you have any problems to solve?
Did you help anyone?
Did you learn anything new?

Technologies

Crazy Hair Monsters – exploring the skills of: Design, cutting and joining

Rhyme Time

On Friday we enjoyed singing the rhyme Twinkle Twinkle little star and Mr Norris played the guitar.

Then we thought of other words which rhyme with star. We talked about how rhyming words have the same sound at the end. We made a list: Star, are, bar, far, car, jar, spa

Then we represented the rhyme twinkle Twinkle little star in a visual form: