Whiteley Reception

Friday 27th September This week we have been singing the nursery rhyme 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'. We are encouraging the children to join in with actions. We have been working on the children's use of scissors.  Lots of children have found this very challenging.  Please see the correct way to hold scissors below. Right handed scissor hold Left handed scissor hold You might like to give your child opportunities to use scissors at home.  Perhaps they could help you by snipping the tops of green beans when you are cooking.  They could practise snipping the tops of paper tubes to make models. At school we use scissors like the ones below.  If you don't have any scissors please let us know. Click here to find a link to the scissors that we use at school. Maths In Maths this week the children have been encouraged to count a small amount of objects using one to one correspondence. The counting puppet helped us learn to count amounts accurately recognising that the ...

Friday 20th September  This week we have been singing the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty'. We are encouraging the children to join in with the words and actions. We have been practising building a stable wall for Humpty Dumpty to sit on. We talked about overlapping the bricks so the wall does not fall over. An Introduction to Phase 1 Phonics      At Whiteley Primary School in Phonics, we first focus on Phase One which is all about the children tuning into sounds  around them, listening and getting ready to develop oral blending and segmenting skills.   Phase One  concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work which starts in Phase Two.    This week we have been concentrating on awareness of sounds that we can hear around us in the environment. We have also thought about the sounds we can hear in words eg, pot  p-o-t. Maths In maths this week the children have been encou...