We’re going on a Bear hunt
The well loved story We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen was the focus story for our learning this week. Both classes enjoyed joining in with the story and retelling it in our reading areas.
We used the story as a prompt to go on our own hunt in the school grounds. With an areal map of school in hand, we went on a sound hunt. We searched for some of the graphemes we have learnt so far.
The map’s telling us to go to the gazebo!
Understanding the World
Thank you to everyone who sent in photographs of their front doors. We used them to draw our houses and other types of homes too.
This one’s my house. It has two handles and white all around.
Mine has windows.
My house has a blue door.
Phonics
Autumn 1, week 4 has focused on the new phonemes: /ck/, /e/, /u/ and /r/.
/ck/ is our first diagraph and the children have been great at remembering that two letters can work together to make one sound. We also learnt the new tricky word: the.
The children are doing ever such a good job at blending orally using all their known sounds (phonemes) and they have begun to blend to read independently in our phonics sessions too. Keep it up Reception!
Poem Of The Week
This week’s poem of the week is Falling Apples.
Help at home: you could set up a stage at home (a sofa or chair would be fine) and let your child perform the poem to you using the actions we learnt in class.
Maths
This week we have learnt that numbers can be composed of ones. We joined in with the STEM sentence “one and one and one make three” and made collections of three things for Baby Bear.
Help at home: You could make different collections of three things at home. You could look at how three can be made of one and one and one or from two and one.
Stay and Learn
Our first stay and learn session will be on Monday 6th October.
This is an opportunity for you to come into school to find out about phonics and watch your child learning in school. There will also be a coffee morning and a Phonics information presentation before the session. We look forward to welcoming you then 🙂