Here are just two of the children we have celebrated this week. They have achieved reading 150 and 250 times at home with their families and have been invited to a "biscuits, brew and books" event with parents and also an ‘Artists, Authors and Appetisers’ art celebration with parents too!
What a massive achievement! Well done Rainbows!
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Our topic this week has been all about London! We know this is our capital city and the river that runs through it is called the River Thames.
During provision time this week we have painted and constructed some of London's famous landmarks, drawn maps of towns and cities adding all the important features, written some postcards from London, programmed the class robot "Beebot" to move in different directions around a map and completed so many more activities! Here we are being ready for learning, resilient and reliable! OUr core book this half term is called You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus. It is a really funny story and Rainbows love it!
We have looked at the story in detail to give the Rainbows a really deep understanding of the vocabulary and phrases in the story. The vocabulary we have focused on was; snatch, panic, spring, grasp, swerve, bizarre, temper, afloat, capsize and conveyance. For most of the words we added an action as well as an explanation to support understanding. The Rainbows answered questions about he story including who were the characters and what was the problem in the story. Then they talked about emotions in the story and took part in some freeze frames to show how the characters feel. These included some Monkeys throwing items of fruit from a shopping trolley, passengers in a car swerving about because the seal couldn't grasp the wheel and a very cross centipede because it took ages to put lots of pairs of roller skates on his feet! See if you can guess some of their actions for the vocabulary, and some of their emotions in the freeze frame activity. Rainbows have been working hard to develop their writing. Some of the Rainbows have been learning to "hold a sentence" in their head and write it, and some have been thinking of their own ideas and writing a picture.
First they had to solve the puzzle and create the picture. Then they discussed what they could see in the picture and told their friend a sentence about it. They then went away and wrote their sentence independently. They had to remember lots of things; A capital letter at the beginning, Spaces between each word, To segment the sounds in words and write them, To remember tricky red words (sight words that you cannot segment to write) A full stop or exclamation mark at the end. This week we have made some AMAZING Father's Day Cards! Shhhh!
We have been focusing on our scissor skills and have been cutting out shapes with straight sides and curved sides. We have tried to cut as close to the line as possible to make our shapes really neat. Some of us have been learning to hold our scissors correctly and some of us have been learning to turn the shapes to cut around them instead of turning the scissors. Our cards look wonderful, but don't let dad see the photos before Sunday! This week we have been sharing into groups. Our vocabulary focus was "share" and "equal."
First we began by looking at strawberries that had been shared between two animals. We could identify if the groups were shared equally or not. We know that equal means there are the same number in each group. When we were confident at this we were ready to begin to share objects equally ourselves. We worked with a partner to share a group of 6 bears into two groups, moving the bears one at a time to each group until they were all shared. We then identified how many were in each group and if they were equal. We repeated this with other numbers. We also had a "party" where we shared biscuits into equal groups between two friends. Here are some photos of one of our phonics groups working really hard to read!
First they begin by reading some words cards with "Speedy Green Words." These are common story words that will appear in the phonics book they are reading and subsequent books. They practise these each session to become speedy readers when reading them on a grid and then within a sentence. Then they will read word cards with "Story Green words." These are words specific to the story they are reading that session. Reading the cards first helps them familiarise themselves with the words so they can spot them in story and increase their fluency. They will also read "Red words." The words on these cards are words that are tricky to read because you can't segment and blend to read them, you have to learn what they say by looking at them; sight words. The children then have the opportunity to read the story, taking it in turns with their partner. They read a page at a time, with one child being the "teacher." They point to the words while the other child reads them and they support them if they find it tricky. Increased fluency helps support reading comprehension; a very important skill so the children have a deep and thorough understanding of what they have read. This group are becoming very speedy readers! Here they are in action. Well done to all of our Rainbows who entered the art competition earlier in the year. The Rainbows have had their pictures published in a book which can be ordered so you can keep a copy at home!
There are some truly amazing and detailed drawings and we are incredibly proud! We looked through the pictures together and talked about what we drew and the Rainbows were so proud to see their hard work in the book. From all the schools that participated we are delighted to say that the overall winner, who has their picture published on the front cover, is Theo! Theo received a MASSIVE bag of art goodies to continue his passion for drawing at home. We done Theo, and well done Rainbows! One of our stories we read this week was Somebody Swallowed Stanley by Sarah Roberts. It was all about a carrier bag called Stanley who ended up in the sea and caused lots of upset to the environment. It had a happy ending though because a boy rescued the animal and reused Stanley to make a kite.
We kept with the sea theme and looked at some photos of the seaside. We talked about what sounds we could hear and used the instruments to make them. We tried to use them in different ways such as tapping, shaking, scraping to make the noises. Here we are experimenting with them! Our topic this week was all about looking after the environment. We spoke about how important it is to care about our planet and how everyone can make a difference. If we all work together, instead of just leaving it to one or two people, we can change our ways and look after our planet.
We read two books this week, Somebody Swallowed Stanley and Somebody Crunched Colin to help us learn about caring for the environment and the impact that litter has. We had lots of fun taking part in different activities during provision time. These included writing items of litter that we need to put in the bin, sorting litter into different groups to recycle; metal, paper, plastic and making some magnificent pictures in the creative area. We have been practising adding detail to our drawings and drew some familiar sea creatures in the sea. We then covered them with bits of litter to highlight what happens if we dont recycle or reuse. We stuck them up around school to help other classes see what is happening to our world. Some of us experimented with paper and water to see what happens during a recycling process and we looked at books about caring for the environment. We even washed and reused our milk cartons instead of throwing them in the bin! You can see some of our models below. Here are just some of the activities we have taken part in this week. We hope you are proud of us, especially our writing and maths learning! |
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