This week our book has been Owl Babies.
We have joined in the repeated refrain "I want my mummy!" .
The book has led to lots of learning.
We have thought about what happens in the day and what happens at night, and some of the animals that are awake at night.
We sorted the photos of day time and night time activities/ animals and used words to sequence time like 'morning', 'night time' 'day time' and 'bed time'.
We have made owl baby masks.
We focussed on cutting and joining skills.
In maths we have been playing games comparing quantities, saying which number is more,which is less and when both are the same. Cheeky monkey and Gruffalo had the same number of sweets but sometimes they were a bit naughty and took sweets from each other. The children had to see which animal had more and which had less. We told them off for being cheeky!
We have also been using plastic gloves filled with rice to count and add fingers
In literacy, we have been using cotton buds dipped into paint to make dotty versions of our names. We have been thinking about our phonics by playing eye spy and use robot voices to segment words (can you guess what my robot is saying - c- a- t).
The first few minutes of this video demonstrates this concept well but be careful to play with short words only.
Why not have a go at home playing the robot game - asking your child "Can you put on your h- a-t? Can you touch your b-a-ck? etc. This game really helps children to tune into speech sounds and will develop their ability to write the sounds they can hear when they are ready. If your child needs more time to learn this skill, why not start off with eye spy using letter sounds rather than the alphabet name: I spy someone who starts with mmmmmmm ....mummy!
Next week we will be going to reading Peace at Last and thinking about the different sounds in the text and how we can make the sounds with our voices, instruments and body percussion.
