Hello Hedgehogs and Parents!
The main event this week was on Monday. In our story, there was a huge storm. The children stepped into the story as various animals to experience the storm - there was rain, thunder and lightning! The animals (children) all managed to find shelter and survived the storm. Sadly, though, the park was destroyed during the storm and Percy was devastated.
The good news is, he was searching for a team of park keepers to help him restore the park and care for the injured animals - and the children decided they were up to the task! They drew themselves as park keepers and so have become Percy's team of park keepers. Over the next few weeks they will help Percy to restore the park to its former beauty.
Our Forest School session involved more blackberries! One of the children decided they'd like to have some blackberry juice and added blackberries to their water bottle... and many others followed suit. It was interesting to see the changes in the water and the blackberries as they mixed together and the children enjoyed trying their juice! They also started to gather some sticks of various sizes in the hope that we can have a fire within the next few weeks.
Here are a few photos. Phonics and Maths are below!
Phonics and Spellings:
Reception:
We have now covered s a t p and i.
We are starting to do oral blending and segmenting and you can practice this at home. Try sound-talking some words to your child, for example, when it is dinner time, ask them to s-i-t at the table. Or give the dog a p-a-t. The ability to tune into sounds and blend them together to make words is essential.
I'm going to share this video again, as I did last week, because using pure sounds is so important in phonics. It's very easy for us (teachers included!) and children to get into the habit of saying 'nuh' instead of 'nnnn' or 'puh' instead of 'p' which can make reading and spelling difficult. So here is the video again, for your enjoyment!
There is a useful video here about the pure sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCI2mu7URBc
Year 1:
The children have been revisiting oa and have learnt that, at the end of a word, this sound is usually written with ow - as in snow, glow, blow, flow, yellow.
The spelling list for next week's spelling challenge is here. As usual, the green words are compulsory and the others are optional!
If you want to play a game, use pages 1,2,3,5,6 and 7 of this pairs game.
If you don't have a printer - you can create a similar but smaller game. Use the words (and draw the pictures) for the green words from the spelling list to create a pairs game.
Maths:
Reception:
We have been working on the principles of counting - the basic skills a child must understand when it comes to counting. An explanation of these can be found here.
A good game to play for this is Ten Lovely Things. Each player needs to find ten lovely things (it can be anything). Players take it in turns to roll a dice. They then ask for that number of things from another player, eg 'Mummy can I please have four of your lovely things?' The game continues until someone has run out of items, or after a given number of turns each players see who has the highest number of objects left. The key skills here are counting with 1:1 correspondence, the cardinal principle (knowing that the last number said is the total number of objects) and saying the numbers in order.
Year 1:
The Year 1 children have been adding small numbers this week. They have been learning how to add in a variety of ways, all of which will support their maths as they move through the years.
Addition using a part-whole diagram
Addition using a 10-frame
Addition by counting on
Addition by counting on is the newest skill the children have learnt. To practise this one, you could play this card game.
We have also been revisiting bonds to 5.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I shall add some photos to this post soon!
From Mrs Simpson :))
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