New Year Beatrix Potter Class news

Beatrix Potter class • January 19, 2024

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This week, the children discovered some sentence starters in our Curious Cabinet. We are using these to help develop writing short simple phrases using our phonics! We have even been feeding The Shush (our creature who lives under the carpet) some delicious words and phrases!

At the start of the year, The Shush loved to gobble up secret symbols (early mark making) but last term, The Shush sent us a message explaining that he now prefers to eat words. The children spend 10 minutes a day ensuring The Shush has lots of yummy words to eat! We use our phonics to 'stretch' words and write the corresponding sounds we hear.

Our Reception children are making super progress with their phonics! This term, we have started levelled phonics groups to ensure that all children are reading at the cusp of their confidence. Most children, have started to take home phonics books to practice at home with their grown ups.

On Monday, we were greeted with some very curious sights! We investigated and Mollie even designed some binoculars to help the Police! On Tuesday we discovered a small parcel in our Curious Cabinet. It was a small London bus with a book called 'Naughty Bus'. We spent the week writing about some of the adventures of Naughty Bus and discovered who had made all the mess!

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