This week in the classroom
Thursday 5th June
Reception class have had a great week back in school, learning and playing together.
In phonics sessions, we continue to focus on all phase 3 sounds and phase 4 words, with greater emphasis on blending to read them. We have also been recapping and remembering various tricky words. Children continue to apply their phonics knowledge in group reading sessions and have all started writing daily in phonics books, instead of on whiteboards. You can use the information and videos here to help practise sounds at home.
In English, we have started reading and writing about a new story called The Hundred Decker Bus. Children have been very interested in the story and all the different decks of the bus! You can hear the story here. Children have also read with Mr Rogers in small groups, and chosen new books to take home. Please send books and book bags every day, we try and read with the children as much as we can!
In Maths, children have been learning about comparison; comparing towers, blocks and representations of different numbers. They have also enjoyed consolidating their knowledge of weight, more'less and greater than/fewer than.
Children have enjoyed a number of activities this week. Children all made beautiful paintings, modelled using their imaginations and made things such as rockets and cars, built pretend cars outside with crates and tyres, improved their climbing and balance using the large equipment, invented stories in the giant's castle in the home corner, written about the 100 decker bus and much more.
It's been a lovely week.
Thursday 22nd May
Reception class have had a wonderful week of learning!
In phonics sessions, we continue to focus on all phase 3 sounds, with greater emphasis on blending to read them. We have also been learning new tricky words; 'out' 'today'. Children continue to apply their phonics knowledge in group reading sessions and have all started writing daily in phonics books, instead of on whiteboards.
In English, we have read and explored the book 'Jasper's Beanstalk'. It is a story book about a cat who tries to grow plants from his seeds. Children have been writing sentences describing the different stages of growth and how Jasper tried to help the plant grow. Children have also read with Mr Rogers in small groups, and chosen new books to take home. Please send books and book bags every day, we try and read with the children as much as we can!
In Maths, children have been matching different representations of numbers to 10 e.g. objects, fingers, ten frames. They also enjoyed finding out about weight using balance scales. We compared the weight of cuddly toys to see which were heavier and which were lighter.
Children have really enjoyed a variety of additional activities this week. They have all made hand print minibeasts, bumblebee puppets and glitter paint dragonflies. Children also enjoyed building 'hides' outside using wooden blocks, plastic crates and more. Children enjoyed playing new track games at the maths table, rolling a die and counting ion that number. We also saw some fab play doh minibeast models!
It has been a super week!