The countdown to Christmas begins....... There are lots of fun things planned for next week including the cinema coming to visit, making christmas cards and our Reception Party :-)
(We will still be doing phonics and numeracy sessions as well)
Phonics
Last week we started writing some simple sentences using some of the key/tricky words we have learnt;
"the sun is hot" "the ink is wet" "the bus is red"
We have been concentrating on leaving spaces between our words to make them easier to read, and also learning that we write from left to right and when we reach the end of our board/paper we must start again underneath on the next line going left to right again.
Don't worry about capital letters or full stops at this stage, we will be looking at these in the New Year. If you would like to practise this at home make sure you include CVC words. There are some examples of these words on your Lists 1-5. We will be carrying on with these this week.
Numeracy
We have been looking at the + and = signs and using them to write number sentences. We have been using the book "Father Christmas Needs A Wee" to complement these activities. In the book Father Christmas visits different houses and drinks different amounts of drinks before he becomes desperate for the loo. In class we have 2 houses that Father Christmas visits and drinks at, the children must add all the drinks together to work out how many he had altogether, we then write a number sentence to represent this, e.g. in the first house he drinks 3 cups of tea and in the second house he drinks 4 hot chocolates. Then Father Christmas realises he needs a wee. How many drinks did he have? Children count out 3 objects and 4 objects then count them altogether, writing the number sentence 3 + 4 = 7
Using a book can help to make learning real for the children and also makes it more fun. Have a look if you have any books at home that you could use to recreate a counting activity and bring learning to life.
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