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Tuesday, 10 June 2014

The Big Ship Sails on the Ally-O



Or...

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Friday, 6 June 2014

Dance to your Daddy!

We've been very busy lately so we haven't been posting as much as we had been before. Sorry about that! Here's our nursery rhyme for last week though... Dance to your Daddy!

Monday, 19 May 2014

Rock a Bye Baby

Our new nursery rhyme!

Thursday, 15 May 2014

Tricky Word Songs


We've been very busy the last few weeks learning some new tricky words! 

 Here are the videos of the songs!


Monday, 12 May 2014

Pat a Cake!

Our new nursery rhyme for the week - 'Pat a Cake'!

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

There Was A Crooked Man


Our nursery rhyme for the week is 'There Was A Crooked Man'.



 Here's a teddy rocking version of it!

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Riddle Me This!


We were doing some riddles today. 

Riddles can be really tricky! 

The first one is where you have to think really carefully about what you want to do.


This one tries to trick you. Listen really carefully!



Monday, 28 April 2014

London Bridge is Falling Down


Our nursery rhyme for the week is 'London Bridge is Falling Down'. 

There are lots of different versions of this rhyme so if you know a different one, be sure to let us know! :-)

Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Buddy Reading - Reading for Fluency


We had another session of buddy reading today. 

Everyone really enjoys it when Orlagh's class come in because they are such kind and helpful teachers. 

Hopefully some of them will think about being teachers when they grow up - they'd be really excellent!

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Our Awesome Letters!


We learned how to write letters today! 

You have to write the date on the right, the 'Dear someone' part on the left and start in the middle of the first line. 

There was lots to remember but Cecelia couldn't believe how excellent they all were!

We've come a long way since the start of the year. 

Really getting ready for first class now!

Our Awesome Letters

Monday, 7 April 2014

Little Miss Muffet


This week we’ll learn Little Miss Muffet. Here is the traditional version of the rhyme.



Here’s a different version of the rhyme where Miss Muffet isn’t scared of the spider… 


 And here’s a Sesame Street cartoon based around the rhyme!

Friday, 4 April 2014

Tricky Words - right and two


This week we were learning the tricky words right and two. 


Two is tricky because it sounds just like 'to'. 



It's tough to remember that the number two has a silent w!




Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Buddy Reading Begins!


We finished our four weeks of buddy handwriting with Orlagh's fifth class so today we began doing some buddy reading. 

We all switched partners so that we could get to know some new people.  

Everyone worked really well together and we did some great reading!

It was great!



Monday, 31 March 2014

Old King Cole


Our nursery rhyme for the week is Old King Cole! 

Here's a video to sing along to!

Saturday, 29 March 2014

Tricky Word songs - could, should, would


Here are the 'ould' family tricky words! 

If you remember that they belong together, you only need to learn the different beginnings!





 

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Rhyming Masters!


We were practising our rhyming with this game today. 

It was great fun! 

You can play it again at home by clicking on the picture!


Monday, 24 March 2014

The Queen of Tarts


Today we were learning the rhyme the Queen of Tarts. 

While we were eating our lunch we watched this really old cartoon all about the rhyme. 

It's 80 years old!


Can you see what's the same and what's different between these style of cartoons and cartoons today?

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Class Voting System

We used the class voting system today to practise learning our tricky words! 

Everyone gets a special controller with buttons on it. 


 When a question appears on the board you have to press a button to give your answer. 



When everyone has voted, you get to see how many people got it right. 



It was a really fun way to practise our tricky words. 



We LOVE learning with ICT!







Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Yankee Doodle


Our nursery rhyme for the week is Yankee Doodle. 

We watched two different videos and the class voted for their favourite. 

Here it is!

Friday, 7 March 2014

The Frog Prince


Today we listened to the story of the Frog Prince. 

We practised our predicting, connecting, self-questioning and creating images.

You can listen to it again here.