Squirrel Class - Year R
Welcome to Squirrel Class (Year R).
Teacher : Mrs Gibbons
Our Learning in Pictures
Please click to view some snapshots of Squirrel's learning in action so far this year.
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Useful Information
PE day: Thursday
Please remember to come into school in your PE kit on these days, as well as removing your earrings and tying back your hair.
Changing reading books: Reading for pleasure books are changed every Friday. The children will have the choice out of the school library books. The children's phonics matched book will be collected in at the start of the week, and their new one will be given towards the end of the week. Please read through this together at least once through the weekend.
Home learning
On a weekly basis, we would expect the children to complete the following activity.
Reading: At least 3 times per week. (This can be either their reading for pleasure book, a phonic matched book (at least once), or stories from home. Please log this into their reading record as we will be starting to check and record these each week.
Our Learning Environment
Maths
We have been learning to subitise in our Maths sessions.
This is where the children view and say the amount without counting.
See if you can quickly say the amount that flashes in the video without counting first.
We have been using numberblock characters to support our understanding of compositions of numbers.
Children will use sentences such as:
4 and 2 makes 6
3 and 3 makes 6
Phonics
We have learnt some Phase 3 sounds and will be consolidating these during the Spring terms.
Children will be using these digraphs when developing their spelling. Please do not expect children to know the correct spellings for all words, we encourage children to spell phonetically (using only the graphemes they have learnt to date).
Home Leaning- Phonics (Little Wandle)
You may have noticed a phonics pack in your child's bag from school this week. Please share photos/ videos of your home learning. We would love to see how they are doing with this.
Their pack contains focus phonic sounds that we have learnt this week, as well as some tricky word cards.
Please spend some time with your child to go over these sounds and how we write these.
They may use the following words when talking about their phonics learning:
- phoneme (the sound it makes)
- grapheme (the written letter/s)
There is also a booklet of all the phase 2 and 3 sounds that they will be learning with the corresponding writing rhyme. Please encourage the use of these rhymes when your child is practising the letter formation.
This does not have to be done with pen and paper. They could practice writing the graphemes with paint, in flour, mud, sand, or even ketchup! Feel free to get creative with this, so it suits what you have at home but so it can also be an enjoyable task for you to do together.
You may want to go on a sound hunt and find objects that start with our focus phonemes (e.g. s- sun, soup, slipper). This could be done around the home, garden, on a walk, or even during your food shop!
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We do go through and teach these sounds throughout the week, but the power of additional home practice is very beneficial, so we do encourage this additional exposure to their learning as much as possible.
If you would like to check or go through any of this together, please don't hesitate to ask. The staff in school are always happy to help.
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Story time with Mrs Gibbons