Rainbows have been working incredibly had in phonics to continue to learn new sounds, to spot the sound in a pack of letters, to write the sound using the handwriting phrase and to use the sound when making words.
Some of the Rainbows have been using magnetic boards to write sounds in CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words. First they say the word, then show how many sounds the word has on their fingers. We call this "Fred Fingers." Next they pinch each finger as they say each sound in the word. An adult adds each sound, one at a time, to a pocket chart on the board. The children then "Fred Talk" (segment and say each sound) then blend the sounds together to read and say the word. Then the children make the word on their magnetic board and read it over and over. Here are some of the Rainbows working hard to read! What an achievement!
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Rainbows have been learning about Remembrance Day. We know that this is to remember soldiers and we know that some soldiers fought in the past. We know we wear poppies to show we remember the soldiers.
Our activities this week have included developing our cutting skills to create a poppy to wear, exploring and describing different textures to create a giant poppy picture to display in school, looking at remembrance pictures and identifying the initial sounds and tracing patterns on poppy petals. Rainbows also created a college using different materials to make poppies to display in school. They made photo frames to help remember special people and special events that had happened. We watched a video from CBeebies that helped us to understand remembrance day. A family of rabbits are effected by soldiers fighting and we talked about the different emotions the rabbits and other animals might feel and what happened to where they lived. The Rainbows identified emotions including happy, excited, frightened, worried, scared and sad. What a week for celebrations! Rainbows have been learning about Bonfire Night and why we celebrate it. We know that Guy Fawkes planned to blow up the houses of parliament. We know this was called The Gunpowder Plot and this happened long ago in the past.
We know this is why we celebrate Bonfire Night and how to be safe on Bonfire Night. We know happened in the past. We have continued our learning from before the holidays about Diwali. In the photos below you can see some of the fun activities we have had a go at this week. We made firework pictures in the painting area, sparklers in the creative area and created some amazing sparkly fireworks in the dough area by rolling, shaping, moulding, cutting and squeezing the dough. We made Rangoli patterns and had our first experience using clay to make Diva lamps! We found clay very different to dough as it was harder to manipulate but we still had fun! We have done lots of activities to support our fine motor skills this week and are looking forward to see how this helps our pencil grip and letter formation! |
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