This week we have been learning to deconstruct and construct our own sentences. We began by doing this orally and playing a fun game. Some of us had to hold a sentence in our head and sit in a circle, then take turns to say the next word in the sentence. Some of us played a game where we could make up our own sentences and chose a word that makes sense to add to the sentence on our turn.
Some of us have been learning that words are made up of sounds. We counted the sounds in words, used scissors to cut the word into sounds, Fred Talked to read the sounds, then put the sounds back together to read the word. We then practised Fred Talking and reading more words. Some of us have been counting the words in sentences. We read some nonsense sentences as they were not in the right order. First as a group we talked about what clues we could see to where the words go. We know that a sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, so we moved those words and tried to construct the sentence so it was correct. We were given our own mixed up sentences so we cut them into words, spotted the clues and moved the words around until they made sense. We are working hard to become independent writers and structure our own sentences, so these activities are helping us to do that! Here we are being fabulous detectives and super readers!
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This week we have been learning some new vocabulary to help us learn the parts of a plant. We have been learning seed, stem, leaves, flower, petals, pollen and roots.
We have had the opportunity to plant our own seeds and will watch them grow over the next few weeks. We are hoping to see them shoot very soon! We are also taking part in an experiment to watch a bean grow. We placed it in a see through sealed bag with some wet tissue paper and are excited to see any changes it will go through over the next few weeks. We also did the same again but placed it in soil. Keep checking the blog for the updates! Rainbows love to read and this week in class we have been re-reading the book "The Spell" that some of the children have been reading in phonics.
In phonics we read through some "speedy green words" that are common words the children need to learn and read speedily. We then read "story green words" which are words that are present within the story book. After we are familiar with them, we read the story with our partner taking it in turns to read a page at a time. One partner acts as the teacher and points to the words for their partner to read, and supports them if they find it tricky. Then they swap over. We try to challenge ourselves by doing "Fred in your head" and reading the sounds out loud then the word, then we progress onto "Fred in your head" where we try to say the sounds not aloud and just say the word, then we try "Fred in your head faster" which helps the children to become speedy readers. Here we are reading the story about Stitch the Witch again using our phonics knowledge. We really enjoyed this story because she turns herself into a frog instead of her cat! We are continuing to learn to cross the road safely on the way to Welly Walk by doing "stop, look, listen and think" each time.
Some children are making brilliant progress with this and are keeping themselves and others safe. Thank you to last weeks Road Safety Champion who modelled to her friends how to safely cross the road so they could learn too. Here is our new Road Safety Champion who will continue this next week. Well done! Here is just one of the Rainbows that has achieved an award this week. This is a Star Books reading award and what a fantastic reader he is!
Well done superstar! This week Rainbows have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk as part of our Growing and Planting topic.
We have read several different versions of the story including a play which was different. Rainbows talked about good and bad characters in the story. Although everyone thinks the giant is a bad character because he is grumpy and chases Jack, Jack in fact went into the giants house without being asked and stole his belongings. Some of the Rainbows were surprised that Jack was bad because he was poor and needed some money to buy new clothes and food for himself and his mum. There have been so many different activities happening this week, including lots of independent writing. Even though the weather has taken a turn for the worse, we have still be accessing outdoor provision and continuing with our bug hunt. We have initiated lots of independent literacy and maths this week in provision, and some children even wanted to play noughts and crosses with adults and their friends. We love it when children have their own ideas and interests that we can support and build on in school. Here we are getting busy! As part of our "Watch it Grow" topic we have been learning the poem "Under a Stone" from the Poetry Basket. We have been trying so hard to use expression by changing our voices and facial expressions to make it exciting and fun for people listening to our poem. We hope you enjoy it! We are so lucky in the Rainbows to have such diversity and enjoy celebrating each child. We often share information about our cultures such as Christmas, Easter and Eid and we know that it is wonderful everyone has different beliefs and interests.
One thing we are very proud of is that some Rainbows can speak different languages, and not just one more but two more! We have been practising answering the register saying good afternoon in English, Polish, Bengali, Romanian and Portuguese. We will soon be moving on to answering in Thai. Rainbows are very clever! They also use Makaton signs to say good afternoon too! Portuguese - Boa tarde Polish - Dzień dobry Bengali - Śubha aparāhna Romanian - Bună ziua Thai - S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy Rainbows are really good at being kind, and know that it makes our classroom, school and world such a lovely place to be.
As we are so kind and caring, every time we do something extra special we get a pebble added to our kindness jar. When we reach the top we will get a special reward for being so wonderful and shining bright! This week we have had a couple of lovely examples of kindness. The first has included a child who hurt themselves and couldn't manage to carry something. Another child saw they were struggling and independently picked up the other side and helped them carry it. Another lovely act of kindness was a child was walking through the cloakroom and saw a coat on the floor. We have often talked about looking after peoples property and also how things on the floor can be unsafe for us and accidents could happen. This child was walking through and independently picked it up and hung it on a peg without being asked. What kind and thoughtful acts of kindness this week Rainbows are really good at thinking of others! This week the children have been learning that labels tell you what something is. We have been segmenting and blending to read labels and match them to the correct picture. We then moved on to generating words about a honey bee during the next lesson. The children looked at different features such as the eyes, body and legs and came up with the words; tiny, shiny, fluffy, fuzzy, black, yellow, stripy, long and sharp (the stinger.) In the final lesson the Rainbows used the words to structure a sentence orally and we wrote it together as a team by segmenting the sounds.
The children had the opportunity to complete this activity independently during provision time. They chose a minibeast, thought of a fact about it and wrote it on a speech bubble. You can see their amazing writing below! |
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