This week we have been incredibly busy practising, developing and applying our skills as ACE Writers! We have many keen writers in RDT and it has been wonderful to see the children producing some fantastic writing with both adult direction and independently within provision as they explore their own interests.
Where can my imagination take me?
Our big question for this half-term is ‘Where can my imagination take me?’ as we focus on developing our sense of wonder. This week, we achieved this by innovating our talk for writing text, ‘The Bear and the Piano’. For our focused writing activity, we took the story and used our imaginations to make it our own! We then applied our phonics and writing skills to record our story on paper. Finally, we enhanced our innovated stories with our own detailed illustrations.
Card making!
Our learning behaviour for this week is ‘collaboration’ and we worked together as a team to create our own cards whilst exploring provision, showing open hearts as we wrote kind messages inside and gave them as gifts. On Wednesday, it was Mrs Duba’s birthday, which inspired many of us to make a birthday card for her. For ‘Thank a Teacher’ day, we thought about how the adults around school help us and made thank-you cards to show our appreciation. It was wonderful to see the children inspired by the special events taking place and highly engaged as they created their beautiful cards!
School Role-play!
Some of us in RDT are showing an emerging interest in role-playing schools, which quickly caught the attention of more of our friends, who also decided to join in as the week progressed. We are particularly interested in role-playing our read write inc sessions, meaning that we have been busy applying our phonics and writing skills during our co-operative play. We enjoyed writing on the whiteboards during our school role-play games, as we took on the roles of teachers and pupils!
Bubbles!
On Friday, the weather was hot and we were invited to explore bubble making as a calm outdoor activity to help us keep cool. We used pipe cleaners to create bubble wands, bending and twisting them to form the correct shape as a fine-motor activity. Fine-motor experiences help us to strengthen our control as writers. We showed great perseverance as we shaped our bubble wands and tried to blow bubbles. We didn’t give up, even when it proved challenging, and the delight as we watched our bubbles form and fly away provided us with a moment of awe and wonder! Many of us chose to take our bubble wands home to continue to play with over the warm weekend, which can be dipped into a mixture of washing-up liquid and water to make more bubbles.
Enjoy the bubbles if you use your bubble wand this weekend! You could keep cool in the heat by creating some writing linked to your own interests or making another card for someone special to you. We would love to see your ACE writing on Tapestry to share together!