This week we have focused on Literacy with lots of fun games and activities. Our books of the week has been Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Oh, look what i've got by Michael Rosen.
Activities we have enjoyed include, alongside other child initiated activities:

• learning about Sukkot and making tent pictures
• enjoying our role play post office and also drawing pictures and posting letters
• we have sung number songs and finger rhymes *outside we have been riding bikes and scooters
• we have developed fine motor skills by doing pencil control activities
• every day we have been doing phonic activities and maths number games and number recognition
• we matched pompoms with tweezers to number cards on our tuff tray
• we have enjoyed doing lots of puzzles
• playing small world with our train set
• we compared amounts of objects looking at more and less
• enjoyed lots of mark making
• we have sung lots of rhymes and enjoyed dancing the children have continued to enjoy drawing, making pictures with glue and stickers and painting
• listened to story cds
• made ice cream number cone pictures
• compared sizes of objects, big and small
• looked at objects that were heavy and light and compared them
• ordered pumpkin pictures into size order
• made a height chart
• looked at patterns, matching them and making them
• completed repeating patterns with lego bricks
• make handprint repeating pattern pictures
• matching pattern pictures *lots of counting objects and pictures
• lots of counting games and songs

Please see the links below for home learning ideas related to literacy.

For further home learning ideas you can look back through the previous weeks to find more ideas of things you can do at home.

Best wishes, Julia, Claire, Hannah, Lisa and Adam



Home Learning Activities
Reading Simple Sentences
Reading Tricky Words
Understanding Text
Using Phonic Skills for Reading
Using Phonics Skills for Writing
Write Simple Sentences
Writing Tricky Words
Using phonic skills for writing
Phonics glossary for parents
Parent Reading Prompts
Help your child with writing