Lots of mark making

DEVELOPING WRITING SKILLS

The creative table has been been busy this week with children wrapping "presents" for special people. Because we are focusing on writing for a purpose, the children were encouraged to write a label for the present.
It has been really pleasing to see the children developing their letter formation and spotting letters they knew in words.

       

The writing area had been full most of the week with industrious little mark makers.

The children have enjoyed using paint to practise letters and line patterns. Different muscles are used when mark making on a vertical surface.

Next week is Book Week, including World Book Day!

"One Ted falls out of bed" by Julia Donaldson is our class book - lots of fun activities are being planned!

Celebrating Chinese New Year!

DRAGONS EVERYWHERE!

The children loved the magnificent dragon puppets in the parades we saw in the CBeebies video clips. They made some fantastic dragons themselves over the week!

Lots of sensory activities gave opportunities for stimulating discussion and new vocabulary.

The children practised their cutting skills a great deal this week as they made lanterns and dragon puppets. Great concentration!

We went into the hall and danced our dragons and played our instruments to the wonderful Chinese music.

We even tasted some delicious Chinese food!

It's been a great week, with the children talking so much about their experiences of this colourful and vivacious celebration of Chinese new year.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Getting ready for reading and writing

MOVE THOSE BODIES!
Getting ready to form letters means understanding words such as up, down, curve, around and straight. So we picked up our flipper flappers and got our bodies moving in different ways! 

Controlling scissors needs hand eye coordination just like writing does, so we have been working our fingers hard this week.

LOVING MARK MAKING

Some of us have been practising forming letters in our names. Super concentration and control from them all!

PRINT ALL AROUND US

We have been looking closely at labels and logos, and have been spotting matching words around our room. We also spotted letters that some of our names begin with.

BOOK TIME!

We are very excited at having our very own Book Time library of books we can choose, and take home to share with our families. Children are recalling parts of stories and talking about which part they liked.

A lovely week of building early reading and writing skills. Keep up the good learning, Little Conkers!