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The children have been drawing a story board for a story called Star in the Jar by Sam Hay, using appropriate story language and sequencing events in the correct order. We talked about the characters in the story and used our phonic knowledge to write some words to match each picture. Then we discussed how to make a poster to help us find Sam the Star who is missing from our classroom.
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Today we played a game of phonics disco, dancing to the music then when the music stops the children quickly found a table with a high frequency word on it reading the word and then writing independently.
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The children in Reception have had a wonderful time learning about different cultures and celebrations. We took part in Lion dances, made dragon masks and visited the Chinese arch as part of the Lunar New Year celebrations. To consolidate our experience some children chose to write about our trip to Chinatown demonstrating their phonic knowledge, good pencil control and letter formation.
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After our trip to the farm the children looked at photographs and talked with their friends about where we went, what animals we saw and the fun of the tractor ride. Then the children used their phonic knowledge to write about the visit independently. The children were very proud of their work and were able to read their sentences to the adults in the room. Well done everyone!
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For Diversity Day we listened to a story called The same but different by Karl Newson and Kate Hindley. We talked about how we may have differences but how in many ways we are the same, we all feel happy and we can all feel sad sometimes and talking to our friends can make us feel better. Then the children worked with their partner to discuss their similarities and differences drawing pictures of each other and writing sentences about how we are the same and also can be different.
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The children used their phonic knowledge to write a model sentence independently during a phonic lesson, then chose to write a postcard to the whale in our story ‘ The Storm Whale’ by Benji Davies to ask the whale some questions such as “ How can whales swim” ? And “ Do you have any babies” ?
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The children used some of the key vocabulary from the story The Storm Whale to think about and write their own sentence about the main characters in the story. The children had some interesting ideas and were able to use their phonic knowledge to segment and blend the sounds in the words they were writing.
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We were delighted to welcome parents this week to learn about how we teach phonics in school. Miss Stocks showed explained the Monster Phonics programme we use and answered some really great parent questions about how to support the children at home.
The children have had a lovely time learning about a story called ‘Superworm’ by Julia Donaldson this half term. Taking part in physical activities based upon parts of the story and joining in with the repeated phrases in the book. Today the children were very excited to write about the story using their phonic knowledge and letter formation to write captions and simple sentences about Superworm.
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The children listened attentively to a book called Supertato by Sue Linnet and Paul Hendra joining in with some of the repeated phrases today. Then went to the playground playing a game where some children pretended to be the evil pea character from the story chasing the veggies, if a veggie was caught they had to freeze until another veggie rescued them and the game continued. We discussed some of the interesting language used in the story such as ‘ menacing’ and ‘ distressed’ demonstrating our most menacing expressions to each other. Finally the children had the opportunity to create their own Supertato character using the scissors to carefully cut around a range of features and props to use on their illustrations. Some of the children chose to use their phonic knowledge to write about the characters and parts of the story independently.
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