In phonics we have been exploring alliteration, and trying to distinguish the initial sounds in a word. We played I Spy and gave clues by using the initial sounds. We also played digging for treasure, and we had to sort out the objects using their initial sounds. We thought of lots of words that start […]
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In phonics we have been exploring rhymes. We have been distinguishing between different words and continuing rhyming strings. We have listened to some of our favourite rhyming stories, such as The Gruffalo, Room On The Broom and Some Dogs Do. We gave each other silly rhyming names, and created our own silly rhymes such as […]
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In phonics we have been exploring body percussion. We have been distinguishing between different body sounds and trying to create patterns of sounds. We have also been learning words to describe different sounds and distinguishing between long/short, fast/slow and loud/quiet sounds. In maths we been learning about the composition of numbers 1-5, and we have […]
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We have been busy creating. Reception class have used a variety of materials and tools to create mini theatres, poppies, bracelets, puppets, binoculars, bags, spiders and treasure boxes. The children have added their names to their work and are using their phonic knowledge to write a label for their work.
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In Reception class we talked about the Hindu festival of light known as Diwali. One of the children went to the Victoria and Albert Museum for a Diva lamp workshop. She brought in her lamp and told the class all about it. This inspired some of the class to make their own Diva lamps. The […]
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It has been a delight to welcome the Nursery children back this week. We have thoroughly enjoyed hearing all about their Christmas holidays and sharing what they got up to during news time. In phonics we have been recapping our listening skills. We know that to be a good listener you should keep your lips […]
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This week we have been using our phonic knowledge to write some Christmas cards. We have practised writing ‘To’ and ‘From’ and our names. We have also sounded out ‘mum’ and ‘dad’ and had a go at writing those too. We designed some of our own Christmas cards, and have been really improving our scissor […]
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This week in phonics we have been learning about the initial sounds in words. We played ‘I spy’ and had to spy people using the first sound in their names. We have also been sorting lots of different objects by their initial sounds, and the children are becoming more and more confident to say what […]
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This week in phonics we have continued experimenting with instruments. We used a selection of new instruments and explored the sounds that they make. We are building up our vocabulary to talk about these instruments and we practised following instructions to make patterns with sounds. We also carried on our focus on Bedtime for Monsters and we […]
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The children have been very busy this week at Nursery finding out about different celebrations. We learnt about Diwali and made Diva lamps, and also learnt about Bonfire night. We have made lots of firework pictures and paintings. In phonics we listened to the different sounds that fireworks make. We had a go at sounding […]
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