- Next week is Book Week- Mrs Roberson is running a competition. Please can your child bring in a rhyming book on Monday (which they will share with the class or with their partner) and tell us an 'awesome word' that you and your child have identified in the book. Please write the awesome word on a post-it and stick in on the book. For example: 'ear-splitting' is an awesome word we found in 'Room on the Broom' describing the shriek from the bird.
- We would be extremely grateful if you have any small card board boxes, egg boxes, tubes, yogurt pots etc that we could have for junk modelling.
- The children are spilling their water on the carpet fairly frequently.We would be very grateful if you could ensure that your child's bottle does not have too large an opening to stop such spillages.
- Things to do...
- Read books to your child and talk about any rhyming words you come across. See if your child can continue rhyming strings.
- Encourage your child to practise taking their shoes and socks off and putting them back on ready for PE on Monday.
- We are continuing to ensure that the children can follow instructions at school. Please can you practise with your child at home by giving them 2 or 3 instructions at a time.
Thank you to those of you who attended the Macmillan coffee afternoon today.
In Adult Directed this week the children have rotated around four activities:
Maths: The children have focused on the number 2. The children counted body parts on the bear. He had one head, one neck, one tummy. He had two arms, two legs, two eyes, two hands and two feet. The children each had to dress a bear finding the correct item of clothes, counting in 1 or 2 of each item. We also talked about a semi circle. If we cut a circle in half we found we had two pieces and the children learnt that this new shape was called a semi-circle and a semi-circle has two sides. The children should know that a semi-circle is a 2d shape.
Expressive Arts and Design: The children have been learning about primary colours and how we can make secondary colours from mixing these three colours. They used the colours they made on a circular piece of paper.
Understanding of the World: The children went on a hunt in the playground for pictures of animals. Once the children had an animal they discussed similarities and differences. They responded to the following instructions:
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Put your hand up if your animal is furry,
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Put your hand up if your animal has four
legs
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Put your hand up if it has horns
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Put your hand up if it has feathers
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Put your hand up if your animal has a
tail
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Put your hand up if your animal has a
beak
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Put your hand up if your animal has a
mane
The children then had to match the baby animal to their parent. We talked about the names of these animals and how the baby and parent may have different names and look different: calf and cow, puppy and dog, foal and horse, kitten and cat, kitten and rabbit. Some children would benefit from further discussion around this subject.
Literacy: In Literacy the children focused on rhyming words. The children put their wellies on and went down to the Robin Hood Trail. The children all went on a hunt and found objects. The teacher then got her cauldron and said ' Izzie, wizzie, let's get busy, what can I see? Lots of things in the cauldron, just for me!'. She then took one thing out of the cauldron at a time and asked the children who had an object that rhymed with it. eg. can and man. The teacher read the story of 'Room on the Broom'. When they reached the part that said 'find something everyone throw some thing in', the children had to put the items in the cauldron.
In phonics this week we have continued to focus on rhyming words and rhythm- the children are doing really well with these. They took part in several different activities.
We sang a rhyming song to the tune of 'The Farmer's in the Dell' for example: 'The dog in the fog on the log, the dog in the fog on the log, A, E, I, O, U the dog in the fog on the log'. We then listed all the words we could think of that rhymed with dog. We repeated this with different rhyming words:
The cat with a hat on a mat......
The pin and the bin made of tin.....
The slug in the jug on a rug...
Each time we listed all the words we could think of in each rhyming string.
The teacher clapped a pattern and the children had to copy the pattern. The pattern started with clapping and then developed to include stamping, tapping and instruments. Some of the patterns were passed around the circle.
The children played 'Tambour Names': The children sit in a circle and pass around a tambour and chant ' Some names are short, some names are long, please tell us your name after this song. Whoever has the tambour then beats out their name into syllables.
Listen to the beat- the children used a variety of percussion instruments to play different rhythms. They were also encouraged to move to the beat- initially the beat was simple and slow and the children marched, they then moved on to faster beats and skipped and galloped .
Playing with words: We had a range of toys with different numbers of syllables eg dinosaur, goat, horse, chicken etc the children had to clap the number of syllables in each toy.
The children have enjoyed playing in the sunshine this week. ChIL has been lots of fun.
Enjoy the weekend,
The Year R Team
