Guest Posted December 18, 2004 Posted December 18, 2004 Seems strange to be posting in this site- after being a nursery person for so long. But how do you you yr 1 teachers do your planning? how do you set your classrooms out. Do you still have the reading area and the writing corner for freee independant writing opportunties? Do you still do the numeracy and the lit hour- how has the transiion document affected your teaching? lots of questions for you to ansewr but i'm intested to see your responses. Its just that some schools say they have cahnged to a 'play' based curriculum but still have with all the heavy stuff of lit and numeracy and topics still being the main focus- seems to be like spinning plates. how do you do it?
Guest Posted December 18, 2004 Posted December 18, 2004 I have a Reception/Year 1 class. I try to give the Year 1s some Child Inititiated time at least a couple of times a week, but with specific challenges in each area. It gives them the element of choice which they enjoy. I try to include at least one Numeracy and one Literacy activity. However our Numeracy Co-ordinator was aghast when I suggested this instead of the Numeracy lesson, so I will probably make this an afternoon session next term. The Year 1s also have access to all the other areas but as an extra. As far as the writing area goes, the children love writing letters to each other, either in our class or the next one up which is a Year 2/3 class.
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