A busy and fun-filled week for us!
Phonics
We are learning to identify and write new words with the sound ‘sh’.
Over the next few weeks we will be learning to say and use digraphs. This is when we have a combination of two letters representing one sound. At all times we are encouraging and supporting children to say only one sound when they see this letter combination. In school our magnetic letters have the two letters stuck together to reinforce the need to read the sound as one and write both letters when building words with the sound e.g. ship is sh-i-p not s-h-i-p and brush is b-r-u-sh not b-r-u-s-h.
Have a look at Topmarks, Letters and Sounds, Games for 5-7years. There is a game called Letter Planet which practises – ch, sh and th. We will be covering all of these sounds in the coming weeks.
Writing
I am learning to use action cards and a story map to retell a story.
We introduced a new story telling adventure this week – We’re Going On a Castle Hunt! Everyone was trying really hard to join in and remember the sequence of the story. We talked about what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story.
Have some fun with the story map at home.
Handwriting
I am learning to write the one-armed robot letters.
We have started to look at the letter formation for this group of letters. To ensure that all of our practise in forming the letters correctly is top notch we have been saying the directions out loud – down up and round, sometimes all the way up and sometimes just a little way up!
Numeracy
We have continued to work on counting back and the number before and after.
We are learning to display and interpret information in a bar graph.
We have collected weather information over the past 6 week so with Mrs Gillespie the children have created a Weather Bar Graph to show how many days of each type of weather we have had. It seems many rainy days!!
Maths and Art
I am learning to look for shapes in pictures.
I am learning to draw and cut rectangles, squares and triangles.
The children had great ideas for being successful in this task. They said that we had to cut straight lines, we need to have pointy corners and for triangle they had to be super pointy! We have to cut up and across and we have to turn the paper.
We used a wonderful ‘Inverness City Scape’ by Michael Carver to inspire a large art piece for just outside our classroom. We used our cut shapes to create the sky line for our very own City Scape. We tried out splatter painting for the sky and chalk reflections.
Photo to follow… 🙂
IDL
I am learning to name features of a castle.
We have been asking the children how they want to learn – Sarah had a great idea to watch a castle clip to learn some new castle vocabulary. Everyone enjoyed the slides and we did a cut and stick activity to match up our new words with the picture to create a labelled diagram.
AJ and Hibbah had great fun with their idea of using lego to build a castle 🙂 Be on the look out for lots of great creative ideas for learning inspired by your amazing children.
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