Let's play outside! Week 13

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Literacy/Unit of Inquiry

Talk4Writing

Book of the Week- The Dot

• We discussed what the book might be about
• We read the book together and got inspired to make our own dots
• We are all artists in our own way.

Next Week: Inquiring into puppets and clay

Provocation: What are puppets? Can we create our own

• Design our own puppets
• Explore our puppet theatre
• Create our own puppets
• Socks puppets
• Stick puppets
• Shadow puppets
• Clay imprint using natural materials

Communication and Language (Phonics) 

• Explored soundbox
• Looked at different objects to say the initial sound
• Continued working in differentiated groups to practice the alliteration

Next Week:  Continue with our Phonics assessment all week. 

Mathematics

• We read 'Where is Spot?'
• We practiced propositions 'in front, in. under'
• We explored Bee-Bots and it was so much fun.
• We used Bee-Bots to recognise colours

What are Bee-Bots?

Bee-bot is the ideal cross-curricular resource to teach learners the first stages of programming. ... The Bee-bot enables children to improve their skills in directional language and programming through sequences of forwards, backward, left and right 90 degree turns

Next Week: Prepositional Obstacle course on our EY playground

• How many altogether?
• Colour count - 1-5

Learning Environment this week

We explore different areas of learning of our choice. This week we finally opened our sand area and it was very popular. This is how we had fun!

How does sand play help your child? 

• Development of fine motor skills.
• Eye & hand coordination – watching and doing and coordinating these actions.
• Promote creativity and imagination through the role and developing stories.
• Sensory- Development of the sense of touch.

Swimming part 2 in K1 

Have a wonderful Weekend!