This week we read together the story of Loaves and Fishes. When I said loaf,the Pioneers thought that I said love. Maybe they really understood the story! Love and Fishes.
Our story,The Red Hat continued our theme of thankfulness and those who are thankful for us. The little girl is given a red hat by her grandfather and they have lots of fun sharing time together.
We took a look at the church in our village and talked about what happens there. We spotted it from the classroom window.
We now have a prayer space with the church and the trees. This will build up over the next week.
We have pulled and yanked and heaved and dragged a selection of vegetables from their soil. The Pioneers looked over the root systems and pulled off the stems and the leaves. The spiders and woodlice ran for their lives. We read a number of books about vegetables and talked about our experiences of planting,growing,harvesting and eating.
We read different versions of the old favourite, “The Enormous Turnip” and retold our version with a story map and puppets to help us.
It’s been a very lovely week of learning together.
Our Christian Value is Thankfulness and this week we asked,”Who is thankful that we are here?”
We revisited the story The Digger and the Flower where a kind digger saves the seeds from a flower to replant in a green space when new building happens right where it had been growing. The flower was thankful for the digger.
The Pioneers knew that their families were thankful for them.
Our Thankful Bear whispered in my ear and everyone overheard him telling me how wonderful the Pioneers were.
Six Dinners Sid has had quite an adventure around the village. The Pioneers spotted him in every picture and then we talked about where he had been and what he could do there. They identified places they had visited and described where they lived in relation to places Sid had been. They spotted maps and commented of the difference between a road map and the network map at the train station.
Sid is now in the classroom and he has his own name label written specially for him
The Pioneers then built their own version of our village,cutting out road signs and pictures of our shops and sticking them on blocks. The train line went right around the room.
The Pioneers have had a wonderful week of learning together-our first full week of school. This is something to be celebrated.
We are learning lots about ourselves and our place in the world,taking a look at our village to get us going. We have built houses from blocks and made pictures of our faces from all sorts of little things. The new routines are becoming second nature and sorting and tidying is a breeze.
Lots of our work begins with books and the classroom is full of wonderful texts and illustrations. We are listening out for rhyming words and spotting alliteration. The Pioneers have done really well to learn lots of the parts of Superworm and to use some of the new vocabulary like”Lasso”.
Six Dinners Sid will be used again next week when we take a look at our village and decide where Sid might want to go for his dinner. I think that he may fancy a trip to Radford’s,Botham’s or the Spar!
The classroom was ready full of wonderful things and all of the Pioneers explored in their own way. You can never tell just what might happen when the learning begins.
Here are some suggestions for your Happy Learning:
Let’s begin with some phonics and reading.
I suggest that you revise all of the sounds on the sound mat to start off.
Then revise the digraphs ee,ai and oa. You could take a fresh look at Geraldine if you need to. You could pause the video and write the words together.
In the photographs you can see a collection of sentences with these digraphs. Read the sentences with a grown-up. Your Pioneer could try to write some of the words or the sentences. Keep the sound mat close to you and the Phase 2 High Frequency Words too.
Here are the digraphs to look at again ai,ao and ee. Each word has some letters missing. Can you figure out which digraph goes in each word? It is tricky. Go slowly and try them out. You can use these to write your own sentences too.
I have included a photograph of the high frequency words. These are very useful to read and to write.
Take a look at this link for extra support. You can turn the sound down and you can read the words as they come up:
Your new sound for today is a trigraph-igh-three letter,one sound.
Here is the link to Geraldine for this sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCR2RZ4ZYY
Take a look at the poster for words containing the -igh sound.
And now for some maths,
Here is a link to the website I would like you to use:
https://apps.mathlearningcenter.org/number-frames/
I would like you to use this to try out some subtraction for the song 5 Currant Buns. i hope that you all know how it goes…
If you do not want to use this maths app,you could draw out the song like a story map or play it out with your toys.
Please send me photographs and videos so I know how you are getting on.
In our book,What We’ll Build there is a beautiful illustration of a selection of useful tools. I have found a similar collection in my kitchen. Take a look at my picture and Oliver Jeffers picture. perhaps you could take a picture of a collection of tools in your house. Please share the picture with me.Ask some questions:
How does it work?
What is this for?
How does it work?
Tell me all about your interesting tools.
I look forward to seeing what’s in your kitchen drawer or tool box!
Let me know what I can do to help.
Happy Learning
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