Summer 1 - Team EO

In Summer 1, Team EO continued to encourage children to choose to write independently within provision. Children in Reception have been accessing daily handwriting lessons in addition to the writing completed within their RWI groups. During these handwriting sessions, there has been a strong focus on letter formation, using Fred Fingers to write simple CVC words, and writing short phrases and sentences through Hold a Sentence activities. It has been wonderful to see the progress the children have made this half-term, as well as their growing confidence and love for writing. Children in Year 1 have been using some of the texts explored in Talk Through Stories to develop their writing skills. Using story maps, children wrote simple past-tense retells of stories explored during these sessions. Throughout the units, the children learned when to punctuate sentences using question marks and exclamation marks, as well as how to use the suffixes -es and -er. There was also a strong focus on using capital letters at the start of sentences and full stops at the end. The children worked incredibly hard on neat handwriting and correct letter formation.