Category Archives: Literacy

Play in 1.4

We continue to review areas and resources for free play in our room to extend the children’s knowledge and skills. Here is a glimpse of some of the activities available in our classroom today!

Our reading tent is proving very popular during free play! Sometimes it’s nice to stop and read with a friend. A book of their choosing ☺️

We love technology in 1.4! Different games focusing on Literacy & Maths skills are shared on the board for us to tackle, some chosen by our teachers and others we have chosen independently.

Construction remains a favourite in our room!We have marble runs which have been lots of fun to build. We continue to love using blocks and today we were discussing the different 3D shapes and which make our structures more stable.

 

Treasure Map

Our new sound today was ‘x’. One of our play activities was to make a treasure map with a partner, using the ✖️ to show where treasure could be found 💎 We demonstrated excellent team working skills and our maps turned out fantastic ! Some of use even used our maps during role play to find the treasure which was hidden, it was lots of fun !

We also used our whiteboards to write different words which included the sound ‘x’. There were a few of us who were finding it a little tricky to think of any so we used the books from our library to help.📚

Phonics fun!

Today for our literacy task we were scanning for different sounds (digraphs). The digraphs we were looking for today were ai, ie and oa. Mrs Stephenson was very impressed, we did great!

Some of us tackled a ‘read and draw’ activity where we had to read a word (eg crab, hand etc) and draw what we think we read. We were superstars!