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Well being and Behaviour - February 2023

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Well being and behaviour in the early years

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This will be one of the books we will explore in Reception next half term. I wonder...what will our new topic be? 

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Progression of Phonics through the Read Write Inc for parents

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Please find attached resources from the workshop. Please let us know if you have any questions.

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Supporting with understanding and comprehension questions in the world around us.

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Please click the link to access a number of videos that will support your understanding of how we teach phonics at school. Click the small symbol in the right corner that says EYFS Playlist.

Here you will find:
- Blending words with a diagraph
- Blending CVC words
- Blending green words using sound buttons
- Comprehension questions to ask

Please let us know if there are any other videos you would like to support you learning.

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Please use your Home School Reading Record to record when you have shared a book with your child at home. This can be them reading or you reading to them.

You can include:
- The name of the book and book band/colour level
- Words your child struggled to read
- Part of the story their enjoyed
- Improvements they have made with their sounds

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Development Matters supports the building of our curriculum in school as it outlines what children will learn and how. We use this information, along with the children's interests, to plan a broad and balanced curriculum.

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At the end of you child's time in Reception, we would like them to be secure in the Early Learning Goals. These are the areas we support and assess your children on throughout the year.

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A guide to support your child's learning and development.

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Here are some examples of how children learn within the 7 areas that make up the EYFS.

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Support your child with developing their fine motor skills at home. This will help with their writing and mark making.

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We love practical maths in the EYFS! Use resources and real life situations to support your child at home.

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We follow the RWI phonics programme in the EYFS. Here are some ways you can support with your child's reading at home. Please see the additional resources in the Reading column.

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The RWI website holds lots of information, videos and resources to support your understanding of how your child learns phonics and reads at school.

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Welcome to the Read Write Inc. page on Oxford Owl for Home.

Read Write Inc. is a popular phonics scheme. Like all phonics schemes, it teaches children the sounds in English, the letters that represent them, and how to form the letters when writing. Read Write Inc. Phonics includes reading books written using only the letters they have learnt at each level (and a small number of separately taught tricky words). The children will quickly feel confident and successful.

Here you can find lots of free resources to support your child's learning.

Free eBooks | Videos | Set 1 resources | Set 2 resources | Set 3 resources | Kits and flashcards to use at home

Read Write Inc. Phonics

We have lots of free Read Write Inc. Phonics resources to help your child, including eBooks, practice sheets and parent films. We suggest you start by watching this film for parents: What is Read Write Inc. Phonics?

Speed sounds and Read Write Inc. Stages

If your child is learning to read at school with Read Write Inc. Phonics, they will be at one of the following stages:

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Parent guide to Read Write Inc. Phonics - Oxford Owl

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Find out what Read Write Inc. Phonics is and find eBooks, videos, and kits to help your child as they learn to read with Read Write Inc. Phonics at home.

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We provide children with a lot of opportunities to speak and share in class. Here are some strategies and activities you may like to use at home.

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In Reception, we really focus on your child's comprehension skills using questions to extend and support your child's understanding of the text they have read. Here are some questions you can ask your child when sharing a story with them.

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After developing their fine motor skills, we support children to use the correct letter formation when writing. Here are the writing opportunities we have in class and activities to try at home.

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Try Buried Treasure or Dragon's Den to support with blending CVC and CVCC words. These are free games and activities.

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Try Phase 2, 3 and 4 activities

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Try Phase 1 or Phase 2 sound recognition and blending games

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These delightful phase 2 letter and sound phonics games are designed to help new readers by reinforcing the skills they are learning as they begin their phonics programme.

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Pick a Picture - read the word then pick the correct picture

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Pick a focus sound, read the word and decide if it is silly or real.

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Free phase 2 phonics games online kids children EYFS KS1 letters and sounds

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Free phase 2 online phonics for kids children games phase 2 3 4 5 EFYS KS1 letters and sounds.

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Pick a CVC or CVCC word and read the question using your super sounds. Is it yes or no?

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Answer silly questions following phonic patterns taught in Year One.

Learning Objectives: Pupils should be taught to:
check that the text makes sense to them as they read, correcting inaccurate reading

apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words

respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes

read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught

Your job is to feed the hungry T-Rex by reading the silly questions and answering 'Yes' or 'No'. If you're working in a class why not show thumbs up or thumbs down.

The phonics patterns are as listed in Spelling Appendix 1 (Year 1). Other words in each sentence are either from the Common Exception Words listed in Spelling Appendix 1, or from the first 100 High Frequency Words.

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Tell a T-Rex, (Silly Questions) - mobile friendly

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Answer silly questions following phonic patterns taught in Year One.Learning Objectives: Pupils should be taught to: check that the text makes sense to them as they read, correcting inaccurate reading apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught Your job is to feed the hungry T-Rex by reading the silly questions and answering 'Yes' or 'No'.

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Try Blending Bingo and Balloon Phonics!

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Selection of excellent educational maths and literacy games, organised by topic and age group - Topmarks

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Shape Patterns

Shape Patterns is a shapes sequencing game. Complete the pattern of different coloured 2D shapes. There are three levels of difficulty.

Teddy Numbers

The Teddy Numbers game can help you to learn numbers to 15. Learn the digits and words for the numbers and it game can help you learn to count too.

Underwater Counting

Can you find the treasure? You need to count the underwater creatures. This game has two levels: Count to 5 and Count to 10.

Ladybird Spots

Three different counting, matching and ordering maths games based on the numbers 1 to 10 for early years children.

Chinese Dragon Game

Chinese Dragon Game is an ordering and sequencing numbers game based on the Chinese New Year dragon theme.

Toy Shop Money Game

Money games where children work out which coins will buy toy shop items and where they can calculate change. Tablet-friendly and with different levels of difficulty. GDP, USD, EURO and AUD options are available.

Paint the Squares

There are various sized interactive grids up to 120, all of which are configurable. They include a regular 100 square, a negative numbers grid, decimal numbers and puzzles. Ideal for starter or plenary activity.

Coins game is a money game which introduces children to coinage in British, Australian, American and Euro currencies. There are three modes: Sorting, Ordering and Counting money.

Coconut Ordering

Compare and order different numbers, including decimal numbers, and metric quantities involving length, mass, capacity and money. Includes UK, Euro and Dollar currencies.

Helicopter Rescue

A game which focuses on numbers from up to 10, to up to 100. There are four game modes: Find a Number, Find the Number Between and Count On and Count Back. The counting on and back games reinforce the vocabulary of addition and subtraction.

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From November 2022, Reception will be enjoying an Outdoor Learning session a week where they will be asking questions, exploring the natural elements, going outside and working together to solve a problem.
Activities will be linked to the children's interests and the curriculum. For example, they will be making patterns, flying kites in the wind, minibeast hunting, climbing and using gross motor skills, going on a Bear Hunt and making lanterns.

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Sing along and learn all about numbers with the Numberblocks!

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Chat, play, read!

Here are some tips and activities to help your child develop their speech skills:

use things your child is interested in for play, follow their lead and make sure you're physically at their level while playing

if you notice your child looking or pointing at something, talk to them about it before they lose interest in it

picture books introduce your child to new things they haven't seen yet in real life - ask them to tell you the story, or talk about what the characters might be thinking and feeling

make reading, singing and playing even more fun by using lots of actions and different voices

take turns to make noises or speak - your child will be able to hold longer conversations, so slow down your speech, give them plenty of time to respond and listen carefully to what they have to say

talk to your child in short, simple sentences, as it's easier for them to understand you and have a go at copying when they are ready

try to use the same book or sing the same song, as young children learn a lot from repetition

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Here are some activities you may like to try over the break. These are not compulsory.

You may also like to try....
- Creating a winter picture using different resources
- Write, draw or collage your Christmas list
- Go on a winter hunt - can you find a crunchy leaf, some frost or ice, a green leaf,  some bright lights, a cosy scene
- Visit a new place on the train or bus
- Go to the library and pick out 2 new story books to share at home
- Make a den and share a book in it
- Make a tower with 20 blocks, make a tower with 18 blocks, make a tower with 4 blocks
- Bake a cake or some biscuits! Can you measure and weigh the ingredients? Can you write instructions?
- Write a postcard and post it to your teacher at school - what did you do over the holidays?

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CBeebies Radio takes you to a world of sound and music, where you can share imaginative adventures and listen to stories with your favourite CBeebies friends and characters. CBeebies Radio is BBC Radio for pre-school children and can help to develop their listening skills and imaginations. It is only available in the UK.

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Doubling numbers
Counting and adding

Children often enjoy matching amounts and spotting things which are the same.

Adults could provide patterns of numbers which are doubles, e.g. on dice, dominoes, egg boxes etc.

The Activity
Tell a story of someone having trouble looking after two dogs who will not do what they are told. Then they get given two more dogs to look after - now they have four and they have 'double trouble'! What about if they have three dogs - how many would be double trouble? Ask the children to model doubling numbers up to five on their fingers and to select images to match the story numbers, e.g. dominoes and dot patterns.

Encouraging mathematical thinking and reasoning:

Describing
What do you notice about the numbers and their patterns?
What happens if you match the doubles numbers to a number line?

Reasoning
What do you have to do when you double? How do you know a number is a double?

Opening Out
Encourage children to make 'double' numbers in two column arrays, with objects, counters and pegboards.
Identify the double numbers with dice, dominoes, egg boxes, multilink etc.
Make up other patterns with double numbers.
Compare patterns for the same number e.g. double 5 domino and 10 as an array.

Recording
Photograph, stick, stamp or draw patterns for 'doubles'. Match doubles patterns to a number line.

The Mathematical Journey

describing 'doubles' patterns e.g. "There are five here and five here"

discussing what is the same and different about domino and array patterns

Counting and cardinality:

counting to check the same number has been added when doubling
Matching numerals and amounts:

matching numerals to patterns, or patterns to a number line
Adding:

adding on the same number again to double

'counting all' to find the total

'counting on' from the first number to find the total

predicting how many there will be before doubling a number

Multiplying:

talking about six being 'two threes' rather than 'three and three'

talking about 'doubling three' to get six

Development and Variation
Doubling and halving: invite children to double and halve numbers, using objects arranged in two-column arrays e.g. with pegboards and multilink. What happens when you halve a number?

You could use other story contexts: a sheepdog with troublesome sheep, or a cat looking after kittens or...

Older children can play a game in pairs with dice: one gets the number of objects, the other doubles it. They can check by matching and counting. Repeat with a range of apparatus.

Resources

Toy animals for the 'double trouble' story.

'Doubles' images: dice, dominoes, Numicon, multilink in two-column arrays, egg boxes.

Counters and pegboards to make up doubles patterns.

Stamps or sticky circles to record patterns.

Large number lines to attach patterns to.

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Understanding cardinal numbers
Matching numerals and amounts

Children often enjoy finding things which are the same.

Adults could provide lots of different images and resources to show the value of numbers and numerals.

The Activity
Hold up five fingers, a giant dotty dice or a large numeral and ask the children to show you that number in different ways. Put out lots of different things which children can use to show the numbers, including countable items like conkers, small world toys, large blocks, multilink, dot images like dice and dominoes, structured apparatus like Numicon, Cuisenaire or an abacus, things in packs like egg boxes and crayon cartons, and number symbols including washing lines, number lines and 100 squares.

Encouraging mathematical thinking and reasoning:

Describing
How does this five look different from that five?
What does this pattern of five look like?
What can you see?
How did you make five with two hands?

Reasoning
How do you know these are the same number?
What is the same and what is different about these fives?

Opening Out
Can you show me five fingers a different way? Is there another way? What different patterns can you make with five counters?
Can you see any numbers hidden inside this pattern of five?
Can you show me 15? How do you know it is 15?

Recording
Can you draw or record your patterns?
Can you put something on the paper to show how many there are? Can you put some numbers to show what hidden numbers you see?

The Mathematical Journey

Counting and cardinality:

using counting to check

subitising - recognising the number of items without counting

conservation - rearranging items and explaining that the number is the same because the arrangement can be returned to the original and none have been added or taken away

matching two groups one-to-one to show that they have the same number

Matching numerals and amounts:

selecting number symbols to match the total or numbers inside numbers
Composition of numbers:

talking about numbers being made up of other numbers: "It's six because I see three and three"

knowing number facts e.g. "Five and one more makes six"

Development and Variation

Ask children to show different numbers.
Have a display table for the number of the day or week, or where children can choose a number to make a display for. Show number symbols in different forms and scripts e.g. on calculator.
Number hunt: hide numerals and bags with numbers of things in (e.g. conkers).
Use laminated cards with dots or pictures and ask children to find a numeral and then items or pictures with the same number.
Make different patterns for the same number with objects on trays; take photos.
Use overlapping digit cards for teen numbers (see picture) and same colour sticks of 10.

Resources
Countable items: conkers, small world toys, large blocks, multilink and pennies.
Dot pattern images: dice, dominoes and Hungarian number pictures.
Structured resources: Numicon, Cuisenaire, unifix with same colour sticks of 10, 10p coins.
Things in pairs or packs: pairs of baby socks, egg boxes, packets of crayons or multipacks.
Numerals in different styles, on tiles, washing lines, giant number tracks, 100 square mats, overlapping place value cards for teen numbers, calculators.
Numerals on everyday objects like birthday cards, football shirts, calendars, clocks and measuring equipment e.g. height charts.
Displays of numbers in different arrangements with numerals e.g. staircases of rods, conkers on strings, number lines or tracks with numerals and dot patterns.

Download a PDF of this resource.

Acknowledgements: Jenni Back and Janine Davenall

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Experiencing and talking about position and direction
Interpreting and representing spatial relations with 2D plans, pictures and symbols

The Activity
Take the children on a walk in the local environment. Together, note landmarks to help to remember the route and take photos. Afterwards, invite the children to recall the route (the sequence of landmarks and turnings) and together make a simple map with photographs. Invite children to repeat the route following the map.

Encouraging mathematical thinking and reasoning:

Describing
When walking and recalling the route, use position words (e.g. next to, between, in front of, opposite), directions (across, left, right) and sequencing words (e.g. before, after, next). What did we see after we went across the road?

Reasoning
Put photographs in the wrong order for the children to correct. How do you know that this is in the wrong place? What should it be next to?
When following the map, ask, How do you know we are going the right way? How do you know which way to go now? What do you think we will see next?

Opening Out
Provide a new map of a route for the children to follow, with different landmarks to spot, and challenges of turning left and right.
Introduce symbols instead of photos, perhaps agreeing together on which symbol to use for a specific type of landmark (choosing simple ones that are easy to draw).
Make maps of routes indoors and outdoors, with photos or symbols.

Recording
Children can draw or place symbols or photographs to create their own maps of familiar routes, such as from home to school, tracing the route with a finger to show the way that they went. Children might enjoy discussing their maps with their family.
Shape, space and position:

recalling, visualising and predicting simple routes

understanding and using positional language e.g. next to, between, opposite; relative terms e.g. in front of, behind; and directional language e.g. across, through, left, right

Measures:

sequencing and using time words, e.g. first, next, then, before, after

comparing distances, using comparative language, e.g. nearer, further

counting steps to measure distances between things

Development and Variation

Take photographs of places on familiar routes (such as classroom to the dinner hall or the school to the local shop) for sequencing and map making.

Provide large rolls of paper for children to collaboratively draw maps using felt-tipped pens. Encourage children to make scale models of rooms, gardens or local areas, with drawn roads, paths and walls: toys such as cars, people and animals will help them to think about scale.

Draw simple maps to show children where a toy or treasure is hidden. Point out symbols to help them identify their position in relation to that of the object.

Create a map of a journey made by a book character, to help them find their way back.

Read books about maps and journeys e.g.

Share maps of the area, the world or plans of the school (including aerial photographs and interactive online maps where you can zoom in on specific locations). Identify important landmarks and talk about their position in relation to other landmarks.

Resources

Camera and printer to make photos, symbols and maps

Paper (including large sheets and long rolls) and pens to make maps

Small world toys, buildings, furniture, trees, fences etc.

Books about map making:
Download a PDF of this resource.

Acknowledgement: James Gray and the Reception Class at St Leonard's Primary School, Stafford

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Describing relative position

Children often enjoy going outside to play, discover and build, whatever the weather, so wellies might be needed!

Adults could provide suitable shelving for children's wellies (see picture below).

The Activity
Ask children to fetch a particular pair of wellies from the shelf, using just positional language. You can also ask children to put them away afterwards. There will be other contexts in your setting in which you could focus on positional language in a similar way.

Encouraging mathematical thinking and reasoning:

Describing
Where are your wellies? (Encourage children to use positional language, not simply point!)
Where do your wellies 'live'?

Reasoning
Encourage children to follow instructions which use positional language, e.g.:
Please can you put your wellies on the top shelf.
I think your wellies are on the shelf below the basket of dice.

Opening Out
Provide situations where there are two prepositions to describe the wellies' locations (or location of other objects in the setting), for example, "My wellies go on the middle shelf. They go next to Anya's, below the plant."

Recording
Will you tell me where the wellies are so that I can write it down to go with the picture we've got?

being able to say where something is, relative to something else

getting used to positional language including words such as up, down, over, under, into, out of, beside, next to, away from, across, between, behind, in front of, at the back, through, top, bottom, inside, outside and upside down

being able to follow instructions for putting a tray, box, basket ... away on a particular shelf.

Development and Variation

Try to use every available opportunity to help children respond to, and use, prepositions. In the course of a day, some situations may arise naturally, such as when children line up or tidy up. Listen out for children who describe the location of objects clearly without resorting to gesticulation!

You could include the children in creating name labels for the shelves which may make it easier to recognise which space is theirs.

Other NRICH Early Years activities offering opportunities to develop positional language include: Tidying, Incey Wincey, Building Towers, Packing, Long Creatures.

Resources
Storage units.
Items to store! (In this case, wellies.)
We recommend you read the article entitled 'Getting into Position' written by Debbie Chalmers, which was published in the July 2014 edition of the Early Years Educator.

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Describing relative position Children often enjoy going outside to play, discover and build, whatever the weather, so wellies might be needed! Adults could provide suitable shelving for children's wellies (see picture below). The Activity Ask children to fetch a particular pair of wellies from the shelf, using just positional language.

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Children’s stories for kids between the ages of 3 and 5 that focus on basic development and character-building, emphasizing concepts such as sharing, curiosity, compromise, and bedtime.

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Selection of excellent educational maths and literacy games, organised by topic and age group - Topmarks