On a Friday, we usually do a hot seat and tell everyone what we have learned this week. Today, we went outside in the sunshine and wrote examples of what we have learned. Lots of adding stories and tens and units!
We have been fascinated with fossils in 2.6. Some children have brought some things in for us to have a look at under the digital microscope. They are so cool.
We learn our phonics and spelling actively in class. There are so many ways to do this. here are just a few examples of what we do in class. There are so many ways to learn!
Boggle: The first letter is given and you then have to use the available letters in the box to make words with three or more letters.
Writing in rice.
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Making our words with play doh.
Writing our curly words.
Making our words with play doh.
Writing our words with dots.
We write in class all the time, but on our special writing day, we focus on spelling, finger spaces, full stops and capital letters. All attempts are welcome and praised . Some of us have a “rubber habit” , when we need to rub out every two seconds! This is discouraged! We learn from our mistakes for next time! Almost all of the children are now writing independently.
Some of us have been learning about tens and units . We know that we can never have more than 9 units (or it has to become 1 ten!) It is really tricky, but we are getting there. : )
We had some natural things to discover and look closely at in the tuff tray today. We used the magifiers to have a closer look and see what things look like . We were amazed at what we saw!
Playing “Boggle” is a really good way for children to learn to spell and challenge themselves. The children were challenged to make three, four and five letter words using the first letter “V”, ” m”, “s” etc . They then add the letters from the “Boggle” board. We got some great words today! : )
We learned about Mary Anning in drama this week. She discovered fossils and is the inspiration for the tongue twister (she sells sea shells on the sea shore). She sold her fossils at the beach. We were fascinated by her story and made our own fossils with play doh that Mrs Arbuckle had made for us. Fossils are fascinating.
We used sticks to make the bone patterns.
Our patterns on our fossils were beautiful.
We really concentrated to make a good job.
We learn our spelling patterns and phonics through active learning. Mrs Arbuckle bought us new play doh and we got to work!
Some of us have tried to spell using the lollisticks this week. We have to unscramble the letters to make words. It took us a few attempts, but we got there in the end!
