We Re. Ontinuing to learn about nature with our outdoor walks. It is amazing the different things that the children think of! There is so much discussion to be had and we love looking at our “treasure” under the digital microscope.
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Phonics at Home and School
Every child has been given sound cards to use at home. These cards can be cut up. Try to ask your child for the sound of the letter. When they are confident, you can then put three letters together to make words for them to sound out. You can also use the whiteboard to write the words. When reading stories, see if your child can recognise sounds or three letter words.
We are learning to use these sounds and words in class in lots of different activities.
Numeracy is fun!
Some of us have been looking at numbers before and after and looking at the quantity of numbers. Some of us have been learning to use a number line and have started to add on 1.
Every day, we practise our days of the week song and then we have to say which days come before and after. It can be quite tricky. We also sing our Months of the Year song and put our hands up when it is our birthday month. As if that isn’t enough, we sing our money song about 1p, 2p, 5 p and 10p. Oh- and then we look at numbers to 20 on “Splat”. We are definitely learning through play, but we also work very hard!
Outdoor Learning
We went for a walk after the big storm to see what we could find lying around. There were lots of big branches, leaves and seeds. We then took them into the outdoor classroom to have a closer look at them.
Money
We have been looking at coins this week and using them in class. We can recognise 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p coins.
Parts of Flowers
We were looking closely at the different parts of flowers using the digital microscope. We looked at sunflowers , lilies and roses. We then took the flowers apart to group the different parts into stem, petals, pollen and leaves.
Outdoor Play
We had our outdoor play in the Nursery playground today and we were climbing everywhere. Climbing is good for us physically and develops our confidence. So many happy faces!
Numbers
It’s Maths Week at Mearns Primary and we have been busy in 1.3 counting, practicing our days of the week and months of the year. We also make numbers – we are becoming experts at it.
Today we went for a number walk to see how many things in groups we could find. There was great discussion and lots of laughing.
Learning Through Play
It is important that we learn through play. The children often don’t realise that they are learning. They learn social skills, discussion skills as were as formal learning of maths and language. The children ask us for different areas to become available in class and we do our best to do this.
Dinosaur World
Our dinosaurs arrived in the tuff tray this week. They needed “fed”on a regular basis and they had many adventures. Lots of play and discussion was had and we learned how to use our imaginations.
