Month: October 2019

Phonics

We are learning to read, match and identify ‘c’ and ‘k’ this week.

We are learning to blend sounds together to make words.

During story time can you find any ‘c’/’k’ sounds? Where are they – the beginning, middle or end of a word? Can you read any words that have ‘c/k’ in them?

Practise reading these words.

Writing

We are learning to tell a story using a story map, actions and pictures.

We are learning a new story over the next few weeks called ‘The Enormous Pumpkin’ and we have started making the biggest pumpkin you have ever seen!

Reading book skills

We are learning to read and find common words and we are leaning to use the initial sound clue to read words as we point to them.

Keep practising the words and sounds in your yellow books. These word lists really help children develop fluency when reading and build confidence to tackle new text.

Numeracy

We have just started looking at addition but will continue this over the next few weeks.

We have continued to work on counting on and back and adding on 1 more or 1 less.

Here are a couple of games to try if you wish.

Find a number/ count on or back – Helicopter Rescue

One more/ One less – Chopper Squad

Have fun learning at home and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. Many thanks for your help and support. 🙂

Welcome back everyone!

We are really looking forward to sharing our learning with you this term.

As the weather has been feeling very Autumnal can children please bring a jacket to school for outdoor play and learning.

PE in the hall will continue to be on a Monday after break time. Everyone is getting really good at changing quickly and are working hard at keeping their clothes in one pile :-).

Phonics

This week we are learning the initial sounds ‘d’ and ‘e’.

What can you find at home that begins with these sounds?

Have a go at this initial sounds game.

Have a go at making a word building game at home. Use milk bottle lids and write the sounds we have learned on the lids. With the lids you can try to build words.

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Numeracy

We have been really focussing in on the number before/one less than… this week along with counting back.

Have a go as you walk to school!

Use the paint the square game. Ask someone at home to give you a number and you paint the number that comes before.

Talk for Writing – Jungle story telling

We will be telling our own stories this week substituting the animals in ‘The Little Brown Monkey’ with our own choice of animals.

We will practise adding detail to draw the animals in our own story.

Reading

No new books this week but keep having fun with books. We will collect reading books on Wednesday and give out new books after the holidays.

Keep practising the sight words and sounds in your yellow books 🙂

We have been using the sounds we know to build words.

To be really successful we :-

• say the word out loud
• listen to the sounds we can hear
• think about the sound at the start, middle and end
• put out the sounds in order to make the word
• always start at the left to build words

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Today we were learning about the ‘m’ sound. Like Geraldine the Giraffe off we went around the school to find something beginning with m! See if you can spot the things that begin with m at home.

Geraldine has lots of videos – enjoy them here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh6Ux5D2D84

If you have any junk for making models at home we would love to put it to good use and reuse it for you. We would love shoe boxes, kitchen roll tubes, lids etc.

Many thanks for your help 🙂

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