Everyone is a Writer
Reading and writing are taking off . Even Dolly is a writer!
Six Dinners Sid in Sleights
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.
Such wonderful learning.
What a Wonderful World
After reading What A Wonderful World and listening to the song we created our own prayer to let everyone know what we are thankful for.
Each Pioneer said what they were thankful for and we topped and tailed this with a “Dear God” and an “Amen”.
Rain for the plants,the moon to help us sleep and rollercoasters all made it into our thoughts.
A Wonderful Week of Learning Together
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.
Well Done Pioneers.
Happy Learning
This Week We Have Been Reading…
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!
Happy Learning
Welcome to a New Year of Happy Learning
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.
Pioneers Suggestions for Learning for Tuesday the 12th of January
Hello all you Happy Pioneers,
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
Prepare for Christmas
We began our preparations for Christmas by discussing the meaning of Advent. We went on to look closely at the foliage and got going snipping,cutting,trimming and creating our own wreaths for our Prayer Space in the classroom. The Pioneers went foraging for some scented additions to finalise our creation.
There was some left over eucalyptus and holly so that has gone in a vase and the house is now topped with branches of fir and trailing ivy.
It smells like Christmas in our classroom.
Let There Be Light
Shadows were of interest so we got out some filters and overlays,torches and mirrors to experiment with.
So much learning about sorting materials and new vocabulary-opaque and transparent,flexible,rigid and reflective.
Sorting and Comparing : Fruit and Vegetables
Fresh vegetables were added to the Cat’s Kitchen. A question was asked,”Is it real?” and so a different investigation took place.
We sorted fruit and vegetables,real and plastic and wooden. We sorted again depending on how it grew-above or below ground,on plants or trees. Then we had a poke around inside to look for seeds.
Some liked this. Some were less keen!
