Heathrow Primary School
Heathrow Primary School
Week 8- The Runaway Pancake
This week we based our learning around the story, 'The Runaway Pancake.' We sequenced the story using our newly learnt ordinal numbers. The children sequenced the story independently and then identified the initial sounds in the words of the animals and matched them to the corresponding letter. Some children were able to hear all of the sounds in the words and the blend them together to check they had segmented correctly.
The children chose their favourite character from the story. They drew the character, identified where they came in the story using ordinal numbers, heard, matched and formed the initial sound. Some children were able to hear and write the dominant sounds and some were able to segment to hear all of the sounds.
We talked about the shape of a pancake and that it can roll away. The children were selecting different objects in the environment that can roll. We talked about circles. We found cylinders and spheres can roll easily because they have curved faces and no pointy corners. The children were counting out the characters in the story and matching the numeral. Some of us were adding one more.
We used our gross motor skills to re-enact 'flipping pancakes' using a pan and a bean bag. We found it tricky at first, but really persevered and were able to catch most of them!
We did some colour mixing on our pancakes using dyed syrup. The children used pipettes to suck up the syrup and then squeezed it onto their pancake. They made different patterns and commented on what happened when the colours mixed. Some of us then added fruit to makes faces on our rainbow pancakes. The best part was eating them!
We learnt the ‘p’ sound this week. The children we able to identify the sound in the pack, find objects with the initial sound ‘p’, orally blend words with ‘p’ and form the ‘p’ sound. We used an initial sound sensory bin to find the objects and match them to the corresponding initial sound.
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