The children are using their new phonics knowledge to make words.
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Music
On Wednesday afternoons we visit the music room with our specialist music teacher Mrs Fingland.
Today we were learning the names of lots of different instruments.
We were a little tired at the beginning of this lesson after a busy morning (and chasing our friends at lunchtime), but Mrs Fingland was able to energise us with some fun activities 👍🏻
Play
We have made a few changes in our classroom to help maintain our engagement and extend our learning.
-Our role play corner is now a class shop where we are learning about different coins.
-For construction we are now using Kapla and are having lots of fun creating different structures. It is also proving to be beneficial for our team working skills!
-As we are learning numbers to 20, we now have a magnetic dart board which is very popular ! We throw our darts and have to call the number we land on.
We love to play and learn 🙂
Phonics fun
Today we learned the sound ‘r’. We wrote the letter underneath our rabbits and identified different objects with ‘r’ as their initial sound. When writing our letters, we are making sure we start from the right place. This is very important! We also enjoyed printing some letters with paint and making words!
Number Pouches
We have made some little coloured pouches for you to keep your numbers safe inside your folder.
Please chop up the numbers and place them inside the pouches. Thank you!
Autumn
We had lots of conkers which we were patiently waiting to open. The children loved seeing the chestnuts which were inside. They had fabulous describing words to say what they looked like – shiny, smooth, giant …..
If you find anything which is a sign of autumn eg. leaves changing colour, chestnuts etc please bring them into school and we can share them with the class.
Literacy
We are continuing to practise writing our names. Before we do so we make sure we are holding our pencils correctly.
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We’ve been using the magnetic letters to make new words.
Cosmic yoga.
We spent a lot of time in the playground today -opening our chestnuts and enjoying our values playtime. So we stayed in class and did some Cosmic Yoga for P.E uThe. children loved it ! We’ll definitely be doing it again.
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Literacy
During our Literacy time today we practiced our letter formation, blended sounds to read words, made words using cubes and matched initial sounds to objects.
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Today we had our first fire drill where we had to evacuate the school. The children responded quickly to the alarm and we were able to assemble on to the pitch in a good time. Some were a little scared when the alarm sounded but have since been reassured 🙂
At our whole school assembly, the children were given their first house challenge. This was to create a family poem based on the school values. If you would like to participate, these are to be completed and handed in on Friday.
