Week commencing 28/09/20

Janet Spencer (j.spencer) on: Reception Blog

Here is a snapshot of what we have been doing this week in Reception.

For our maths we have continued looking at the number 2 so we have a better understanding about what we know about it.

For Phonic lessons we have now started to look at our sounds.

We now have learnt all 4 sounds and what words we could think of that begin with them sounds. We have also learnt how to form the letters. We have started to look at tricky words which we can't sound out. The 2 words we have looked at are 'The and I'.

We have continued with our Topic of Toys and this week we have been drawing our favourite toys and if we could write the initial sound.

In school we have 'Investors in pupils' where the children get to choose their target and a treat for when they have achieved this. We link this to our British Values and the children vote for the treat.

Here are the children in Miss Turners class voting for their treat.

Miss Turners class decided they wanted to come in their pyjamas for the day.

Here is Mrs Smarts children voting.

They chose to have popcorn and a film.

We have started Vocab words in the afternoon, these are the words we have looked at this week and we have talked about the meanings of these. We will have 3 different words every week.

A bit of a reminder all children have now a reading book and a keyring with words on. Can we ask that if you have read with your child just pop a comment in the book so we know even if its just a signature. Many thanks Reception team.

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What we have been doing this week (commencing 21st September)

Janet Spencer (j.spencer) on: Reception Blog

This Week in Reception we have been doing lots more exploring. We have washed babies in the water tray, we have been exploring numbered boats and more and less sheets in the maths area. We have had free choice in the writing areas.  

 In our carpet sessions we have looked at the number 2, how to form and write the numeral 2. What a 2 numicon looks like and also how we can make the number 2.

In our topic we have started to look at our favourite toys. We talked about them and said why we liked them and what we do with them.                                                                                               

We have also been busy making our Reception display board for in the corridor. We enjoyed making ourselves and then writing our names. 

We are very proud of what the children achieved.

Unfortunately the weather had a turn this week and we have had rain. Can we ask that you practise with your child to fasten coats and also if they can have suitable footwear for the wet conditions.

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Settling in

Janet Spencer (j.spencer) on: Reception Blog

Over the last two weeks we have been settling into Reception. We have learned new routines and timetables. We have learnt that we need to wash our hands lots, coming in on a morning, after being outside, before snack, before lunch, after lunchtime break, and again between learning sessions on the carpet.

We enjoyed our snack on the carpet together.

We all ate our lunch in the dining hall.

We also had fun exploring both inside and outside provision.

We are now excited to see what we are going to be learning about next.

If at any point you have any questions please email the class teacher.

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Summer 2/ weeks 1-3

Anna Head (a.head) on: Reception Blog - 2019-20

We have had a busy few weeks in Recepttion.

In maths we have been recapping shape, place value and counting up in 2's, 5's and 10's. As a continuing topic we are now looking at the reasoning.

Our topic this half term is looking at differences. We have talked about our houses and village, towns and cities.  We had a walk around the village looking at what we have in our village and then we are going to compare it to the city. 

The children enjoyed looking at all the different houses.

We have then come back and wrote about our village and also about our houses.

The different houses we have in the village.

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These next few weeks we will be working a lot with the children on transition to year 1. Please can you also be having little discussions about their feelings and anxieties over this move.

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