Welcome to Parrots
KS1 COIN Centre
The children in Parrots also spend time in their KS1 classes so please look at both of their class pages to see all their wonderful learning and play! For further information on what our COIN Centre has to offer, please look at our website under COIN Centre.
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| Julie Lodge | Sue Martin |
| Teacher in Charge of Low COIN Centre | Senior LSA |
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Parrot class have enjoyed welcoming our new children.
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Speech and Language
Why not have a go at some of these activities?
English
In English, we spend time developing all our literacy skills including our phonics and our handwriting. We aim to foster a love of stories/books with the children and use stories in a range of ways to support this. The children are often found to be role playing the book of the week or retelling it using sequencing cards.
We help the children to build up their literacy skills with a range of different strategies that include the Colourful Semantics programme which supports sentence structure, developing their vocabulary through mind maps and specific vocabulary lessons as well as using a range of visual resources to help the children in their work.
We spend a lot of time getting the children ready to write and this includes taking the time to ensure their shoulder and arm muscles are strong, through a range of gross and fine motor activities. We plan lots of opportunities for the children to mark make including painting on big paper on the walls, using pens to draw under the tables and writing on the floor outside with chalks. When the children are ready to put pen to paper, we work hard with them to develop their pencil control and to begin to form their letters.
Encouraging your child to mark make in a variety of exciting ways, really supports their handwriting development. Examples of this include using sticks to write in the mud, using your finger to write in shaving foam and making your own paintbrushes out of leaves to paint mud outside.
Below, there are some general English activities that you can use alongside the weekly newsletter suggestions.
Maths
In Maths we are busy learning all about out numbers. We are using the Numberblocks programme to support the children’s understanding of numbers and what they represent. We are spending a lot of time getting to grips with what each number means using different representations e.g. 3 counters, 3 fingers, 3 spots on a die and the numeral 3. We love to get practical with our maths and encourage its use during the children’s play. Having a solid understanding of what each number represents, really helps as the children move forward and develop their mathematical understanding.
There are so many opportunities in the big wide world to support your child with maths such as spotting numbers on registration plates, counting the stairs as you climb, counting the fruit as you buy it in the supermarket and laying the table for dinner.
Some useful websites that have different maths resources on are:
Numberblocks resourcces. You can get the episodes on YouTube https://www.ncetm.org.uk/resources/52060
White Rose Maths Hub
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Below, there are some general maths activities that you can use alongside the weekly newsletter suggestions.
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Phonics
