Stone Soup - Helps with Remembering Order of Events

Monday 27th January

Firstly the teacher read the children a story called 'stone Soup' of which the children could join in and actions were used to make the story easier to remember, but also so that later the children could retell the story in the right order of sequence of events.

In the morning I took a few children who needed to finish off some maths work on time into the corridor whilst they made some small changes to their work i.e. remembering to write the time underneath the clock, as well as drawing the hands in the correct place on the clock faces.

In maths I worked with red group (lower ability set) and I was teaching the children how to add up, using items from a made up food menu: so 1 cake at 6p and 1 hotdog at 12p would be the number sentence 6p + 12p = 18p and I got the children to use a number line so that they could add the numbers. I found that working with the children individually worked better than trying to teach them all in a big group as their attention would wander and some of the children would not know what they were doing, however when I worked with individuals they seemed to understand what to do much more easily.

Whilst the children were in their ICT session I heard some readers and  I also helped out with reading buddies where the children are paired with an older child (Y4/Y6) who hears the younger child read and records it in the reading diary.


Wednesday  29th January 14

Working 1:1 with some children we worked on some corrections for Maths, which were done in purple pencil so the teacher could see the changes in answers. The maths problems were also form a menu adding up two items like what the other Y1 class were doing on Monday. Again we used a number line so the child could see how to add up by moving forward so many spaces on the line.

Next I worked with some children on practicing sentences, looking for capital letters, finger spacing between words ,a full stop and also to see if they could add a 'wow' word to their sentence such as a describing word like 'crackly.'
I also supported red group in Maths this was where they would roll two dice and write the number sentence for it e.g. rolling a 3 and a 1 would be 3 +1 = 4 and they could also use a number line to help them add up.

I also heard some readers in order of priority form the teacher's list and helped the children get ready for P.E. and then I heard some more readers until it was time to get the lunch bags and put the reading bags out along with the books - a group of children usually like to help with this too.
This class have also been doing about 'Stone Soup' to help order the events of which the story takes place, they can do this by using actions or picture cards or worksheets with the story on and they have to cut them up and stick them in the right order!