Reception have been AMAZING in their first ‘carpet time’ learning sessions this week.
We’ve been playing listening games in phonics. We listened for sounds in the environment by going on a ‘sound walk’ outside and tried our best to hear the same sounds in rhyming words, by playing ‘Silly Soup’. Yesterday, our classroom ‘Everywhere Bear’ used toy-talk to sound out some words for us to blend.
Ask your child if they can show you one of the phonics games we have been playing this week.
In maths this week our focus number is zero. It’s really important that children understand the ‘value’ of zero. As the Numberblocks told us:
“When there’s nothing there to count and none is the amount”
The children have been super speedy at understanding that that to get to zero, we “take it all away” or there is nothing to begin with. We’ve been making some funny zero number stories together too!
The class really enjoyed our Numberblocks video this week. If you’d like to access these at home, all of the episodes are available to watch on BBC iPlayer
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