Last week we looked at the Nursery Rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We made our own star artwork and added information we had learnt about stars from the Magic School Bus Sees Stars video. You can see o8ur star artwork hanging in our classroom.
Did you know...
* That the sun is a star.
* Stars are made of gas and dust.
* Stars give us light, heat and energy.
* Stars can explode and new stars are formed from their dust.
In Mathematics we looked at groups of stars and discussed which groups had more or less. We practiced this skill using one to one counting and subitising (visual recognition of a small group). We also look at positional language and followed the instructions to place the stars in the correct place. We focused on the concepts of behind, next to, under, on, front, in, beside, top, bottom, left and right. We explored the concept of size and height and used direct measurement to compare objects.
In Literacy we have continued to develop our knowledge of text conventions and the elements within a narrative. We are learning about words, text direction, capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks, identifying the start of a passage of text, long and short words. We are very good at identifying the cover of a book and its title. At home, I can practice pointing to the words as you read the book.
We are continuing to focus on initial sounds in words and have been looking at detecting and producing rhyming words. We are very good at detecting rhyming pairs and are now focussing on detecting and producing mutiple rhyming words.
Did you know...
* That the sun is a star.
* Stars are made of gas and dust.
* Stars give us light, heat and energy.
* Stars can explode and new stars are formed from their dust.
In Mathematics we looked at groups of stars and discussed which groups had more or less. We practiced this skill using one to one counting and subitising (visual recognition of a small group). We also look at positional language and followed the instructions to place the stars in the correct place. We focused on the concepts of behind, next to, under, on, front, in, beside, top, bottom, left and right. We explored the concept of size and height and used direct measurement to compare objects.
In Literacy we have continued to develop our knowledge of text conventions and the elements within a narrative. We are learning about words, text direction, capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks, identifying the start of a passage of text, long and short words. We are very good at identifying the cover of a book and its title. At home, I can practice pointing to the words as you read the book.
We are continuing to focus on initial sounds in words and have been looking at detecting and producing rhyming words. We are very good at detecting rhyming pairs and are now focussing on detecting and producing mutiple rhyming words.
