This week in Crew we have been learning how to form letters, trying our best at focusing and remembering our phonics sounds. Our next goal is to master how to write our name!
Letter Formation
Category : Writing
Owl Babies!
For the past two weeks Crew Frost have been looking at the story Owl Babies in our afternoon expedition, during this session the children were introduced to play dough, their task was to make their very own baby owl. The children particularly enjoyed using feathers and googly eyes to represent the features on their owls, whilst strengthening their fine motor muscles by pinching, splatting and rolling the dough. Well done Crew Frost.
Fine Motor practice.
We are having a big push on fine motor this year within nursery to make sure we are ready to write! Our first job of the day is to practice our threading skills, the children have shown how they can concentrate working the thread through the holes, it is alot harder than we think to master! Keep aiming high crew Frost!
‘To be’ verbs
In Crew Gray, we have been learning about the ‘to be’ verbs. We worked together to look at some sentences to identify the ‘to be’ verbs which were am, is, are, was, were or will be.
Squiggle While You Wiggle!
This week crew Frost have been introduced to the early writing programme Squiggle While You Wiggle, this programme offers the first steps to build their fine and gross motor movements. The programme also encourages mark making with meaning whilst incorporating dance, uses of materials, and just lots of fun! We can not wait to see what fine motor skills will develop over the next few weeks.
Experience Day – Birdie and the Earthquake
In writing, we have started our new writing unit today and explored the story that we’ll be using as a stimulus. We watched the story and started to think about the action and feeling lenses which will feature in our writing. We then used the images to start chatting some ideas that link to images using our inference skills. We then spent some time together selecting some Yr 3/4 spellings that would have fit into the context of our writing.
Story Map
This week the children have been creating story maps about the gingerbread man, from this they have created their own versions how the gingerbread man crossed the river “he could use a surf board” and “he could use a jet pack”. We turned these ideas into drawings and sentences remembering our capital letters, finger spaces, and full stops.
Amelia Earhart experience lesson
Crew Marsh have had a wonderful experience lesson making their own paper aeroplanes and then using the hat and goggles to feel what it would be like to fly around our playground.
Writing – Experience Day
In our experience day, we had the chance to explore the story that we’ll be using as a stimulus to help us write. Due to the story being a picture book, we had to make inferences about what we thought was happening based on the images. We then used some of the pictures to complete a silent conversation which allowed us to shared our notices, feelings and actions we could see in the images.
Feature Finding
Today, Crew Hamill had their second experience lesson in which they were identifying the features of a non-chronological report. We worked as a crew to look at an example report, sharing ideas about what we noticed – the title, paragraphs and pictures etc. We then looked at a ‘non-chronological report checklist’ and used this to identify further features such as subheadings and an introduction. Once we were comfortable that we understood the features, we worked in pairs to organise a non-chronological report that had been jumbled up. We had to work out which subheading matched which paragraph, identify the title, introduction and conclusion, and then figure out which order we would put the information in before deciding where the pictures would go. Once we had done this, we labelled each of the features and explained why they were important. To consolidate our learning, we played ‘checklist challenge’ in which we had 3 minutes to write down as many features as we could remember before seeing who had remembered the most!
