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P1-3 enjoyed a real treat this afternoon. We had a visit from author Emily Dodd, who had come along to share her latest book ‘Crime Squirrel Investigators: The Naughty Nut Thief’.
We got in the mood with some foresty sounds and smells and then, with Emily’s help, enjoyed helping to solve the riddle of ‘Who stole Rosie’s hazelnuts?’
There was singing, dancing, rapping and a bit of science too!
Many thanks to Emily for giving us such a fun afternoon, and to NessBookFest for organising the event.
We have been using the sounds we know 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 🙂
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.
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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.
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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