Soft start
We continue to play with a variety of numeracy, literacy, fine motor, construction and craft activities during soft start. The children love to draw so I tried to mix it up a little by taping paper to the table. They loved it. They drew on it, wrote words and even did some sums. The bonfire activities were another hit!
Numeracy
The children have amazed me this last couple of weeks with their progress in numeracy. Lots of the children are completing some of their targets for their learning folder which is fab. What has impressed me most is the attitudes of the children-I have seen such determination and enthusiasm from them. They are desperate for sums and numeracy challenges and really want to push themselves. This is great to see! Some children even wanted chalk so they could practise sums at lunchtime! Love it!
Literacy
We had some twister to practise our phonics and cvc words, a relay race to practise proper nouns and a ‘phonics party’ to practise our phonics!
The p2s have also been working on summarising stories. I was thrilled with their work last week. We have been using grids to help us breakdown stories so they are easier to summarise. Last week the p2s had a go on their own. I was amazed by how well they summarised their reading books…completely independently. Some even made their own grids! #proudteacher
Community visit
We had a great trip into the community yesterday. We wanted to know what was in the local area. We took maps and went exploring. We found lots of important places such as the hospital, police station and Tesco. This got us thinking about jobs people do in these places. We will learn more about these jobs and skills needed for these jobs over the next few weeks.
