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4 October 2024

Super sentences!

We have had lots of practise using capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and using our phonetical knowledge so today we have applied it to writing super words/sentences for our class text ‘This is the bear and the scary night’.

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4 October 2024

What Can you Hear?

We have been exploring our different senses each week. This week we focused on our hearing. As a group we listened to potential sounds we would hear inside and outside. We loved guessing the sounds. We then went on a sound walk to see what we could hear. 


We explored squishing and stamping on…

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14 November 2023

Writing initial sounds and CVC words!

We used our phonics to identify the initial sound in different words, before writing the corresponding grapheme. Some of us challenged ourselves to write CVC words by segmenting. We are becoming more confident when applying our phonics knowledge to spell!

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19 October 2023

Phonics - Body Percussion

We have been exploring different ways to make sounds with our bodies! We cam up with tapping, stomping, clapping, patting and much more! 

We have loved making the sounds together and exploring loud, quiet, fast and slow. 

We then used a steady beat to create movement to the music, we used…

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5 October 2023

Phonics - Animal Sounds

In phonics we have been listening to different noises that animals make. We began with looking at farm animals, singing 'Old Macdonald Had a Farm'. We then looked at animal noises from pets at home, we completed a quiz to guess which animal was making the sound. We also used our senses to go on a…

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29 September 2023

Environmental Sounds - What can we hear outside?

In phonics we have been learning all about different sounds that we hear inside and outside. We discussed these and listened to different audios carefully, identifying what was making the different sounds. Later in the week we went on a walk around our school grounds to identify different sounds…

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27 June 2023

Fantastic letter formation

Today grey ducklings worked hard to form the letters in one of the CVC words that we have been blending and segmenting in phonics. Letter formation and neatness of writing was fantastic! Well done Nursery.

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9 June 2023

Amazing writing

Today, we began putting our phonics development into practice by listening to sounds in order to write some CVC words. We we absolute superstars and could hear the sounds in each word really well. We even knew how to write each sound with minimum support! Well done superstars

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23 May 2023

Writing a set of instructions

We wrote a set of instructions to explain how to make gingerbread men. We discussed the importance of writing our instructions in the correct order, as well as the use of verbs to tell the reader what actions they need to do. We used the skills of including a capital letter at the beginning of…

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2 May 2023

Forming our names

Today we enjoyed searching for all of the letters in our names on the bottle lids and putting them in order to spell our names. We then used the paper to form the letters in our name - we have been practicing doing this using in beautiful handwriting using the correct letter formation! 
some of…

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2 May 2023

Forming our names

Today we enjoyed searching for all of the letters in our names on the bottle lids and putting them in order to spell our names. We then used the paper to form the letters in our name - we have been practicing doing this using in beautiful handwriting using the correct letter formation! 
some of…

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