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This week we are looking at the Nursery Rhyme of Humpty Dumpty. We revised what is a word and practised counting them in a sentence using counters and body movements. The sentence, "This is a cat" has 4 words. We are working towards recognising the number of words in more complex sentences, for example "The elephant likes to eat bananas" has 6 words.
We used this knowledge to cut out and match words to Humpty's Brick wall. We then counted the number of words in the sentence. We also created rhyming words to fill Humpty's brick wall. We are continuing to look at initial long sounds in words such as s,l,f,r,v,z,n,m. You can practise with your child by emphasising the initial sound in words and get them to identify which sound it starts with. Games like 'I spy' are also great to emphasise the initial sound. We are continuing to unpack the elements of a narrative using the Braidy tool. As a class we read the story "A Sausage went for a walk' without seeing the cover or pictures the students were read the story and then designed a front cover for the book based on what they heard. We then read the story looking at the pictures and using the Braidy tool unpacked each element. We retold the story as a class using the pictures to assist us. We discovered that the story had a rhyming pattern that helped us to retell it. We then retold the story individually and recorded our retell. These recordings have been placed on a QR code in our work sample books and you will be able to download a free phone application to hear your child's retell.
Using the Braidy symbols we then created our own version of Humpty Dumpty using a narrative sequence. We explored the elements of a setting (when and where), character, kick off/ initiating event and plan. These are some of our narratives sequences.
Lily: On Friday in Spring Humpty Dumpty felt excited because he found a friend so he went home and had a sleep over.
Luca: Today on the wall Humpty Dumpty felt excited because there was soft grass on the ground so he went home and played.
Sophie: On Sunday on the brick wall Humpty Dumpty felt sad because he fell off so he made a sand castle instead.
Sebastian: Today in the snowy hills Humpty Dumpty he felt happy because he built a snowman so he ran into the snowman to break it instead of breaking himself.
Holly: In the deepest darkest forest Humpty was freaked out because there was ghosts coming out so he ran to a friends house.
We used this knowledge to cut out and match words to Humpty's Brick wall. We then counted the number of words in the sentence. We also created rhyming words to fill Humpty's brick wall. We are continuing to look at initial long sounds in words such as s,l,f,r,v,z,n,m. You can practise with your child by emphasising the initial sound in words and get them to identify which sound it starts with. Games like 'I spy' are also great to emphasise the initial sound. We are continuing to unpack the elements of a narrative using the Braidy tool. As a class we read the story "A Sausage went for a walk' without seeing the cover or pictures the students were read the story and then designed a front cover for the book based on what they heard. We then read the story looking at the pictures and using the Braidy tool unpacked each element. We retold the story as a class using the pictures to assist us. We discovered that the story had a rhyming pattern that helped us to retell it. We then retold the story individually and recorded our retell. These recordings have been placed on a QR code in our work sample books and you will be able to download a free phone application to hear your child's retell.
Using the Braidy symbols we then created our own version of Humpty Dumpty using a narrative sequence. We explored the elements of a setting (when and where), character, kick off/ initiating event and plan. These are some of our narratives sequences.
Lily: On Friday in Spring Humpty Dumpty felt excited because he found a friend so he went home and had a sleep over.
Luca: Today on the wall Humpty Dumpty felt excited because there was soft grass on the ground so he went home and played.
Sophie: On Sunday on the brick wall Humpty Dumpty felt sad because he fell off so he made a sand castle instead.
Sebastian: Today in the snowy hills Humpty Dumpty he felt happy because he built a snowman so he ran into the snowman to break it instead of breaking himself.
Holly: In the deepest darkest forest Humpty was freaked out because there was ghosts coming out so he ran to a friends house.
Practising letter recognition and matching using the Interactive Whiteboard
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Matching and identifying upper and lower case letters.
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Revising Initial sounds
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Letter formation
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Exploring text conventions and identifying letters.
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We are continuing to look at the 0-9 number pattern and explored how each decade has the same pattern. We then sequenced numbers on the Interactive Whiteboard and then we each were given a number and had to line up in numerical order using the number pattern we had learnt. To practise these skills we used missing number boards and had to fill in all the missing numbers in the correct order, used number cards on the mat and sequenced them using the number board to help us, played the caterpillar sequencing game on the computers and sang the 100 song on the Interactive whiteboard.
In Science we watched a clip about egg laying animals. We then chose an egg laying animal to draw a picture and complete a sentence. These are some of the animals we chose;
* octopus * birds
* ladybug * snakes
* chicken * turtles
* fish * dinosaurs
* octopus * birds
* ladybug * snakes
* chicken * turtles
* fish * dinosaurs
