Our Learning Weeks 5-7

Our last 3 weeks have flown by been pretty quick. We have been very busy learning lots of new things whilst continuing to have fun.

Literacy

In Literacy, our focus is on oral language, phonics and reading skills.

We have been learning all about syllables (the parts in a word e.g. spi/der) and rhyme (words that sound the same e.g. cat/bat). We have also been listening for the initial sound in words (start sound).

So far this term we have covered letter and sound recognition for the letters;

S, A, T, P, I, N, D,R, E, C, H, O, M, G, U, L, F, B, W, V, J

We have revised our 20 Golden words from Kindergarten and have begun working on our Red words. We now have sight word folders which should be coming home with your child and returned to school daily. We aim to assess and update your child's sight word folder each week. Returning the folder to school regularly enables us to do this. Sight words are important for reading development as texts consist mostly of these high frequency words. Sight words are words we teach students to recall by sight. There are no decoding strategies for teaching sight words (sight words cannot be 'sounded out').

GOLDEN WORDS

I                     is                     Dad                 here

can                 it                     in                     this

see                 the                   like                  go

a                     at                    to                     we

am                 look                 Mum                will

RED WORDS

long              an    

what             has

no                 as

Here are some of our Literacy rotations and activities in action! 

Numeracy

In Numeracy we have covered the numbers 0-10. We have been learning how to form the numbers, how to count out the quantity and order the numbers. We are focusing on our number sequence including numbers 'before', 'between' and 'after' as well as comparing to determine 'more', 'less' and the 'same'. 

We have also covered patterning this term. A pattern is something that repeats itself over and over again. We can make patterns with shapes, colours, actions and sounds. We have been learning how to recognise and continue a given patter as well as create patterns of our own. 

Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)

Our main goal with developing gross motor skills this term has been with balance and the ability to run using correct techniques. Heres a few pictures of us balancing on the many beams and obstacles in the nature playground.

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