Author: Mrs Fowler

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Literacy

This week we will be learning the initial sounds ‘r’ and ‘m’.

Have a game of ‘I spy’ at home. Can you find objects beginning with ‘r’ and ‘m’

Keep blending sounds to make new words. Use our new sounds and give it a go! 🙂

Writing

We have been story telling. What great fun! We have used the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’ to tell our own jungle version called ‘The Little Brown Monkey’. We are using a story map and actions to help us remember what happens first, next, after that and finally. Have a go and tell our story to someone at home.

Later on in the week we will be sequencing the story and retelling it to our friends!

Numeracy

Keep practising counting forwards and backwards. We will focus on the number after and before this week. We are also using the words 1 more/1 less. Ask someone to give you a number and you tell them the number after or 1 more than. Try this for the number before or 1 less. Have fun! Use the house numbers you see when you are out and about or car registration numbers.

Interactive Resources

Username: crownprimary

Password: crownprimary

In the folder called Mrs Fowler/Ms MacMillan there are two balloon pop games – one called 1 more and the other 1 less. Have a go at finding the numbers before and after.

We are learning to jump in different ways: hop scotch, high jump, long jump and hoop jumping! Great listening skills today-keep it up 🙂

Phonics

We will be busy learning ‘n’ this week and then practising using the sounds we know to ‘build’ and ‘break’ words. Have a go at the games below.

Use six post it notes from home or six little cards and put a sound on each card: a, t, s, i, p, n

How many words can you make using the sounds we know? Put the cards together and say the sounds : a-t at, s-a-t sat, p-a-t. pat, a-n an, n-i-p nip, t-i-n tin etc.

Numeracy

We are leaning to find the missing numbers this week and find the number before and after. We continue to work hard at number formation and will work on 8 and 9 this week.

Have a go at using ‘paint the square’ to find the number before and after the number: 5, 11, 14, 18, 21, 28, 30 or ask someone at home to give you a number.

Paint the Square https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

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Our favourite part of the day is when we listen to a story together. This helps children learn lots of reading skills which develop as as they learn to rhyme, clap syllables, retell a story using picture clues, recognise and use sounds and read words.

In our big learning each week we will also focus on being successful readers. We are all working at individual reading targets. Here are some ways that you can support this learning at home.

To be really successful I can:

• hold the book the right way (Mrs Fowler always tries to trick us by holding the book upside down!)
• turn the pages of the book – one page at a time!
• retell the story in my own words using the picture clues
• point to the title, the picture and the author
• understand that I read from left to right
• point to the words as I read them and find words and sounds when I am asked
• match a spoken word to one in print
• recognise some sight words

A really good game to play with your books at home is ‘retelling’ the story (whether you have a wordless book or one with words). Have fun as your child thinks about what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story. Take turns to say a sentence each to make up the story. when one person is finished a sentence then the other person says what happens next until the story is finished.

Have fun with books – love them! Read, Read, Read 🙂

We are learning to count and clap syllables in words.

Give it a go at home.  How many syllables in each word?

We are working really hard in school to develop all of the skills we need to have before we learn to read.  These skills develop in children at different stages and you can help at home by having fun with books and language. Here are some ideas of things you can do at home.

Just wait for it…

Look how tidily we can get changed for PE! Thought you would be impressed.

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We have been learning to be active and healthy! We have been jumping in style and hitting and stopping the ball for Shinty Skills (twice in one day for some: ) )

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We are learning to identify and say the numbers in order to 10, 20 and even as far as 100! 🙂

We have been learning to count/draw to match an amount.

We have been working hard at forming our numerals correctly.

Here are some games to try at home. Find the level that suits your child and have fun!

Balloon Pop to 10 https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/BalloonCount10.htm

Balloon Pop to 20 https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/BalloonCount20.htm

Give the dog a bone – number to 100 https://www.interactive-resources.co.uk. In interactive resources use the Username: crownprimary and Password: crownprimary to access the folders. Scroll down to Mrs Fowler and Ms MacMillan and find the game ‘Give the dog a bone’. Launch to play.

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We will be learning the sounds ‘s’ and ‘I’ this week. We have been learning to identify the sound, say the sound, draw something beginning with that sound and we have started to practise writing the sound! Phew – busy week.

Here are some of the songs and actions we have been using to help us learn.

Play I spy at home! Can you find the objects beginning with…?