This week in the classroom

Friday 15th March

Reception have been enjoying the Spring weather and being able to do more in our outdoor space. You may have noticed where we've been investigating vegetables and role playing Jack and the beanstalk.
 
We've also planted up our bean seeds which have sprouted beautifully, now we just need to water them and watch them grow.
 
In music, we've built on our body percussion skills and played percussion instruments to a beat. We've been observing daffodils and drawn and painted them, our creations are really impressive.
 
We've read a new book, Oliver's Fruit Salad and compared it with Oliver's Vegatables. We were able to talk about what is the same and what is different. 
 
We've looked at different types of homes and draw a picture or our houses, writing that we live in Sandbach and adding our house number where we know it.
 
In phonics we have learnt the last of the Phase 3 di- and trigraphs and started to learn strategies for reading longer words, chunking them then blending the chunks.
 
In maths we've been playing track games (like mini snakes and ladders) to practise our counting and look at how many more we need to roll with the next dice. This is great maths practice for home!

 

Friday 8th March

We have enjoyed World Book Day this week. On Friday our outfits represented lots of different books, we talked about which book characters we had come dressed as. We read even more books than usual and loved playing "Would you rather?" e.g. Would you rather have tea with the Gruffalo or the Tiger who came to Tea?
 
In maths, we've been practising counting, checking that we remembered to stop counting when we counted the last item. We practised with real items as well as sounds like clapping. This is a good one to practice at home for example counting how many steps you go up and down. 
 
In phonics, we've learnt more digraphs and trigraphs; ur, ow, oi and ear and the tricky words my, by and all. Help us to spot our new sounds in words like owl, town, turn and burn, coin, coil, fear and clear. 
 
Our bean seeds are starting to shoot and we've continued our vegetable theme by making Mother's Day cards by printing with celery. In music, we've made a tune using body percussion. We have been practising days of the week a lot through our stories Jasper's Beanstalk and Oliver's Vegetables.

 

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