Reception`s amazing dinosaurs and our Open hour for parents

Thank you to all of our Reception parents who came into school on Wednesday 26th April for our Open Hour session. 

Our focus was Phonics and we aimed to demonstrate a variety of ways in which children can learn - both suitable for using at school or at home.

  Firstly the children showed their parents how we practise `Dough Disco` to improve our fine motor control and we demonstrated a typical daily Phonics session where we practised saying and writing some of our Phase 2 and 3 sounds as well as singing their related song and performing their related action. We practised saying some of our tricky words using silly voices and then challenged ourselves and our parents to think of words beginning with `w`- many thanks to the brave parents who joined in!  Following that we sounded out, read and wrote words beginning with `w` and ended by reading sentences with `w` words and other tricky words. 

We then tried out a variety of phonics and fine motor activities around the classrooms- listed below for you to try out at home.

reading words and matching them to a picture

reading words and matching them to a picture- both are attached to a lock or a key, then use the key to unlock the matching lock

reading sentences and matching them to a picture

identifying a picture and matching it to it`s beginning sound ( written on a clothes peg)

using a play dough  `sausage` to make letters

hunting for coins in the sand- reading the words on the coins and sorting the words into `real `or `made up` words

putting letters into alphabetical order

saying words, making them with magnetic letters then writing them down 

writing phase 3/ high frequency words into our Busy Books and making sentences with them

Buried Treasure game- reading 'real' and 'made up' words on coins and sorting them into the treasure chest or the bin

exploring the Letter-join website on our class iPads 

fishing for phonemes in oats

sentence building with the wooden blocks- reading the word on each block and rearranging blocks to unscramble the sentence

using a phoneme frame, write the phase 3 word to match the picture

writing our high frequency words on tinfoil 

letter formation practise with the magnetic blocks 

Please try the `dough disco`, `jolly phonics`, `letterjoin` and `phonicsplay`activities at home- using the following website links

Youtube- search for `dough disco`

Youtube- search for `jolly phonics songs in correct order`

                                      http://www.letterjoin.co.uk

Letter-join. Cursive handwriting resource for school and home. www.letterjoin.co.uk Letter-join is an on-line resource for teaching cursive handwriting at school and at home. It uses interactive animations to demonstrate joined-up letter formation ...

                                        http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk   - click on `free phonics play` button

PhonicsPlay - Phonics games, planning, assessments and ... www.phonicsplay.co.uk A site packed with interactive phonics games, phonics planning, assessment ideas and many teaching ideas and resources to help children to learn to hear phonemes ...

We also all enjoyed showing our families the fantastic dinosaurs that the children had made at home during the holidays. The children have all shown them, named them and described them using the names of 3D shapes. Well done Reception! We are so proud of your hard work !