Different Types of Home

Monday 20th January 2014
Today the children were looking at different kinds of buildings that we may live in such as a flat, house, semi-detached, detached or terraced house. I spent the day working with individual children, I worked with red group (lower ability) individually on recognising and writing numbers as well as counting to 10 or 20 depending on their ability. I worked with one girl in phonics on 'ai' and 'th' sounds as well as could she write words such as 'blend' 'tramp' 'think' and 'thank' and could she put the sound buttons on these? (this is where you underline sounds and put dots under individual letters).
While the children had ICT I heard some readers and made a log of their record both in their home diary reading record and in the green folder. I also took some children to do some adding and/or subtracting numbers depending on their ability. We used cubes to help with adding and subtracting.


Wednesday 22nd January 2014
Again in 1J the children were looking at different kinds of homes that people live in and what kind of people they think may live there e.g. a couple may only need a 1 bedroom flat as they can share, a disabled man may live in a bungalow and a family may live in a 3 bedroom house etc. I worked with green and red sets individually seeing if they could recognise certain higher level CVC words and for the more able, if they could write them or use a sentence with them in.I also helped red group with adding and subtracting and we used the maths cubes to help with this, for the less able children, we did number counting and number recognition instead.
 As usual I helped some children get ready for P.E. and I heard a few readers. The teacher has also just introduced a noise monitor - 5, too noisy, 4-noisy, 3-getting quieter, 2-quiet, 1-perfect and 0-silence, the level should be between 2-0, with 2 being acceptable for group work, and so I was helping to implement this.







Wednesday 22nd January