FSU Blog it!: Reception week beginning 20.02.17

This week our theme is,

The Story Machine

We will be concluding our two weeks of learning activities based on the book,

"The Story Machine" by Tom McLaughlin

Elliot in the story finds an old type writer which he discovers when he types can make pictures of his interests and tell stories.

This week the children will be drawing and labelling pictures linked to their interests and will also be encouraged to tell their own stories using their drawings and art work as a stimulus.

Phonics Focus: -

This week the children will learn the final sound in the Letters and Sound Programme which is er We will continue to have a daily early morning phonics session focusing on: -

The practise of all GPCs (Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence. Knowing a GPC means being able to match a phoneme to a grapheme and vice versa)
The practise of all letter names
The practise of blending for reading
The practise of segmentation for spelling
The reading of all tricky words.
Reading and writing captions and sentences.

Please continue to help your child to learn the sounds in their Phonics Book and complete the weekly phonics tasks we will send home. For help in how to say each sound correctly please visit the phonics website http://mrthorne.com/ which has short videos which you and your child can watch at home. The children are really enjoying the "Geraldine The Giraffe" videos in school!

Maths Focus: -

This week we will introduce the term double to the children and will encourage them to find double a number from 1-10, using dominoes and Numicon as a visual aid. We will also continue to model counting on to add 2 single digit numbers.

Our week in Caterpillar Class:-

We thoroughly enjoyed working on big pieces of paper on the floor drawing and labelling pictures linked to our interests.

In our PE session we acted out movements of things which interest us and our friends had to guess them -

I like dancing

I like fairies

I like playing Dodge Ball

We really enjoyed singing along to the maths "Doubles Song" and we learnt this week, "that it's no trouble for us to add doubes!"

Painting Ladybird doubles: -

Double 9 is 18

Recording double dominoes independently in the maths area.

Domino car parks - Freddie counted the total number of spots and parked them in the

correct numbered space in the car park.

When learning about the 'er' sound we enjoyed exploring and playing with the herb play dough.

My toothpaste is mint.

I have herbs in my garden.

Ivy is using the magnifying glass to find and record the hidden tricky words!

Our week In Ladybird class:

Patrycja has made a pattern by printing and mixing colour. Also adding her own label to her image.

Louise has created a flower using dot prints and labeled it.

These children are in the writing area using letter stamps to create words and images like in you focus book - The Story Machine.

Maddy has printed the word mummy. She has used the large i stamp and fine line felt tips to turn them into her family members. Very creative Maddy!

In ICT we are continually improving out mouse skills and createing our own favourite images of things we like to do.

Teddy is now challenging himself, by using the keybord to type his name.

Emily has drawin a butterfuly scene on the IWB (Interactive White Board) and used her phonic knowledge to label it.

Using different forms of writing on long paper to draw and label thing of interest to us.

Teddy is uisng and appllying his 'er' digraph and adding in sound bars and buttons. I love the challenge word - 'taller'

We can dance like a ballerina.

Iestyn is being Tree Fu Tom

I am a superhero.

We finished off by having a quick race to get a hearts really racing. We know our heart beats faster after we have been exercising. This is good for us as the heart is a muscle that needs to be worked too.

Kayra is taking notes and asking others what they like to do and what they are interested in.

A great little investigator.

Charlie W is having a go at using his sounds to record his label for his loomband and peg board picture

William has really enjoyed labelling his interests - even getting carried away with drawing just so he could add another label. Well done for challenging yourself William.