This week our learning has been focused around the question “What is a family?”. Our book of the week was “Owl Babies”. This week we have learnt that there are different types of families we know that; there is the traditional family, some children only live with one parent, some children have two mums or two dads, some children can have step-families and that we all have an extended family made up of our aunties, uncles, cousins and grandparents. We have enjoyed discussing our special people during a circle time and sharing why they are special to us. This week we have learnt how to use the powder paints and we have continued to enjoy mixing primary colours to create secondary colours. Our activities have included junk modelling members of our families, drawing a picture of a special person and our funky finger activities has been to thread pipe cleaners through the holes in small balls. Reception children have continued to work in their RWI groups to learn new sounds – they are learning to say pure sounds, write the sound saying the handwriting phrase and to blend sounds in words to hear a word using ‘Fred Talk’. Some children have begun to use magnetic boards to learn to blend. In Maths, we have been focusing on the composition of 2,3 and 4. Children know that 2 is made of 1 and another 1, 3 is made of 1 and 1 and 1, and 4 is made of 1 and 1 and 1 and 1. Here are some pictures of our collections of 2, 3 and 4! Year 1 children have continued to perfect their letter formation and reading and spelling of some tricky red words. In Maths, we have continued counting within 100. This week we have focused on using a number line and identifying the number that comes before each multiple of 10. In Computing, we focused on our mouse skill. The Year 1’s learnt how to use the Paint app to create a picture! In Geography, we learnt to name and locate the capital cities of the United Kingdom and we have begun to learnt the surrounding seas! We have a fun song to help remember the capital cities - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvDIZoQLgIE!
On Thursday afternoon we had our first Welly Walk of the year! We were very excited about this, we learnt how to keep safe on Welly Walk, walked down super safely and had fun exploring our nature reserve!
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Yesterday, our Reception children participated in their first 'Time to Talk' session. This is a programme to develop oral and social interaction skills.
The children were introduced to 'Ginger Bear' who shared his listening rules - they are:
The children worked hard to follow these rules as Miss Hanson read them a short passage about Ginger before she asked them questions to test their listening skills! The children did a fantastic job as they were able to recall where Ginger bear lives, who he lives with and what her friend was called. We then made a puppet of one of the characters we met today. We tried really hard to hold our pencil with the "perfect pencil grip" and to colour within the lines. Next we listened carefully to the poem "Teddy Bear Teddy Bear". We are looking forward to our next session next week where we will continue to develop our listening and turn-taking skills. This week our learning has been focused around the question “What makes a good friend?”. Our book of the week was “Rainbow Fish” and we discussed how the Rainbow Fish and his friends felt throughout the story. The children were pleased that Rainbow Fish turned into a good friend and shared his scales! The children have been trying really hard all week to be good friends - we are so proud of them. After we learnt to name the 3 primary colours last week, this week we have explored what happens when we mix them. We have practised a song called “Mixing Colours” to the tune of ‘The Wheels on the Bus’ to help us remember how to make the secondary colours – can your child tell you which primary colours make purple, green and orange? We have also discussed the ways in which we are the same and different to our friends. Our activities this week included printing with celery in the painting area, rolling the dice subitising the number of dots and carefully counting out the correct number of scales and in our funky finger area this week we have been making friendship bracelets for our friends! In RWI, Reception children have continued to practise oral blending through Fred Talk, they have been working hard to form taught letters/sounds correctly in books and our Y1 children have been accessing RWI groups with the rest of KS1 children at their appropriate level. In Literacy, Y1 children have continued to practise forming letters correctly and reading and writing tricky red words.
In Maths, Reception children have been focusing on counting, cardinality (the knowledge of how many things are in a set and the number name for that quantity) and ordinality. Our Y1 children have continued practising counting to 100 using a Gattegno chart. We have started our Science unit on materials – we been naming materials and describing their properties. Our Y1 children have accessed their second Computing lessons – they were able to identify the parts of a computer, log on and use the mouse to click and drag parts of jigsaw puzzles! Today was our first Feel Good Friday of the year and what fun we had! We took part in some Just Dance activities including A Pirate You Shall Be and the Dinosaur stomp! We had to carefully copy the different moves and be careful of those around us. Our next Feel Good Friday is in two weeks!
It was also Team EO's turn to have Mr Smith join us for our Incredible Us! time. Mr Smith had set up the dinner time equipment on the field for us to learn how to use correctly and safely. We started by listening carefully to Mr Smiths' instructions on how to use each piece of equipment. A huge focus of our session was sharing and turn-taking. We had lots of fun using the equipment - the hurdles and balancers were the most loved pieces of equipment. We look forward to being able to use these at dinner times and we are looking forward our next Incredible Us! session with Mr Smith. This week our learning has been focused around the question “What makes me a me?”, our book of the week has been “Super Dupa You” which is also our class book for this half-term. We have learnt about different body parts and that we have 5 senses – can your child remember what they are? Children have had the opportunity to paint self-portraits using mirrors to add their unique features. The children have continued to name primary colours and have been experimenting mixing them to see which secondary colour they make. Children have had the opportunity to make name collages and to draw around their foot with a friend to then measure with cubes to see who has the longest/shortest foot. Children have had the opportunity to use pattern tracing sheets to practise their pencil control and have accessed a fine motor game called “Feed the Bird” to strengthen their funky finger.
Reception children have been taught the first 5 RWI sounds ‘m’, ‘a’, ‘s’, ‘d’ and ‘t’. We have also continued to familiarise ourselves with the silent signals including "My turn your turn," "Team stop," "Turn to your partner" and "1..2..3." We use these within our daily learning throughout each day too. In Maths, we have been learning to subitise amounts to 3 (saying how many we see without counting), describing spatial patterns with 3 dots, representing quantities on our fingers in different ways and identifying sub-groups of 1, 2 and 3 within larger arrangements. Year 1 children have been practising our letter formation in Literacy ensuring we start and finish in the correct place – we will be continuing with this over the coming weeks. We have also been practising reading and writing tricky red words. In maths, we have been practising counting within 100 in different ways. We have completed our pre-unit assessment for Science and Geography. In our first Geography lesson we have learnt that there are four countries in the United Kingdom. We watched videos exploring the countries and have been able to identify each country on a map. Our Year 1 children accessed their first Computing lesson of the year too which was very exciting! We started by thinking about what the word ‘technology’ means. We then explored some different examples of technology that can be found within our classrooms such as computer, laptop, pencil, phone, pencil sharpener and scissors. We considered the purpose of each of these examples of technology using the stem sentences “It helps us to…”. Our first activity was to sort the images of different items into two groups ‘technology’ and ‘not technology’. As a class we were then shown pictures of different technology and we had to match them to the correct explanation of how that technology helps us. It has been lovely to meet all our new Reception starters this week and welcome them into our school and class and we have thoroughly enjoyed welcoming back our Year 1 children who have been absolute superstars!
This week we have been focusing on our transition into school - we have been getting used to our classroom, our teachers, teaching assistants and our routines. We have been accessing different areas of our classroom, exploring our outdoor area, we have been in the dinner hall and accessed the EYFS playground for dinner time play! We will transition next week into the big playground! Most importantly, we have been making new friends and we have discussed and decided what our classroom rules are going to be. The children have enjoyed several circle times this week where we took turns to share the fun things we had been up to in the holidays, tell our friends our favourite colour and our favourite food! The children waited really patiently to hold our circle time object and know that they can only speak when they are holding this object. We have done lots of Fred Talk this week through games and everyday routines and the children are becoming experts at oral blending! We have done lots of oral counting to 10 and to 20 using actions and we have worked hard to remember our stopping number. Year 1 children have been working on recalling number bonds of 5 using the stem sentence '5 is made of …. and …..'. The Year 1 children have also been introduced to the Caterpillar track game to support their mathematical learning in choosing time. We are now looking forward to diving into our phonics, Literacy, Maths, Geography, Science and Computing over the coming weeks. The staff in class are so proud of how the children have settled in - keep it up Sunshines! Photos will be added shortly once all permissions have been gained. |
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