This week in the classroom
Friday 4th July
Reception class have had a super week of learning, play and exploration.
In phonics sessions, we continue to focus on all phase 3 sounds and phase 4 words and words with 'est' ending, with greater emphasis on blending to read them. We have also been recapping and remembering all th Reception tricky words. Children continue to apply their phonics knowledge in group reading sessions and write daily in their phonics books. You can use the information and videos here to help practise sounds at home, before the children move to Year 1.
In English, we have continued to focus on the text 'Someone Swallowed Stanley', which adds to our theme of Journeys with a water element. Children have been constructing sentences describing sea creatures from the story. 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. Also, we will need all books returning before the Summer break, so please check around the house for any that belong to school!
In Maths, children have been focused on understanding number; they have practised different ways to make 5 and 10, using beads, counters, die frames, tens frames and number plates. We continue to practise counting to larger numbers also, and finding 1 more and 1 less than a given number.
Children have enjoyed a number of other activities this week. They have developed their crafting skills through painting, jelly fish collages, modelling with dough, printing under the sea pictures and more. Some children built amazing towers blocks, crate vehicles and outdoor dens. Children explored which cars travelled fastest down different ramps, and we also talked about any questions or worries the children may have about changing classes and moving to Year 1.
It's been a lovely week.
Thursday 26th June
Reception class have had a wonderful week of learning!
In phonics sessions, we continue to focus on all phase 3 sounds and phase 4 words and words with 'ed' ending, with greater emphasis on blending to read them. We have also been recapping and remembering our tricky words. Children continue to apply their phonics knowledge in group reading sessions and write 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 begun focusing on a new text. 'Somebody Swallowed Stanley', which adds to our theme of Journeys with a water element. Children have been constructing sentences about underwater life. 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 revisiting various recall skills; they have focused on recall of numbers to make 5 and 10 e.g. 5 = 1 + 4, 2 + 3. Children have used a variety of resources to consolidate this. They have also practised counting more than 30 and played new maths track games.
Children have really enjoyed a variety of additional activities this week. On Tuesday, children loved taking part in our EYFS sports day event! The children all gave it their best and had a lovely morning. On Wednesday, the children spet an afternoon in their Year 1 classroom with their new teacher, Mrs Bourner-Browne. They were excited for this, as they already know her very well and their classroom next year, is their original Reception classroom! The fact that their new teacher and room are already familiar will give the children a faboulous start to Year 1. On Thursday, we were treated by another visitor to a show all about perseverance. He showed us some great magic tricks and, with the help of his friend 'Ned', taught the children how to keep trying when things are challenging. They enjoyed his yoyo tricks too, and can buy their own yoyos after school next week
It has been a super week!
Friday 20th June
Reception class have had a super week of learning through play.
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 our 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 continued reading and writing about a story called The Hundred Decker Bus. Children have all enjoyed writing about different parts of the story, applying their phonics and tricky words. 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 number patterns; they have revisted learning about doubles, counting even numbers, counting to more than 20 and also measuring different people in the classroom using bricks as units of measure.
Children have enjoyed a number of additional activities this week. Children all made their own bus collage, then added familiar people and characters using their cutting and sticking skills. We made a huge bus using crats and tyres, trying to fit everyone in! Children built large tracks for different vehicles and found out more about different transport. They practised packing for a holiday and played imaginitively. On Thursday, children loved our musical visitors, who taught us about music, instruments and more. They let some children have a go, and we all danced at the end! Children kept cool by playing in the shade, with water, or playing in the school forest. On Friday we had another special treat; we joined other classes in the hall for a special interactive drama performance from 'Gripping Yarns', who used their puppets and skills to explore friendships.
It's been a lovely week.
Thursday 12th June
Reception class have had a wonderful week of learning!
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 write 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 continued reading and writing about a story called The Hundred Decker Bus. Children have been constructing sentences about different parts of the story, ordering pictures from the text and writing captions. 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 revisiting various counting skills; they have practiced counting to 20 and beyond, counted a variety of objects over 20, tried counting to 100, measured each other by counting how many bricks high, played counting track games and much more.
Children have really enjoyed a variety of additional activities this week. They have all made arts and crafts linked to our theme of 'transport' including painted aeroplanes, they have read new books in the reading corner, practised events for sports day, written speech for the bus driver in the writing corner, built vehicles outside using construction resources and played imaginatively in the revamped home corner, which is now an airport and aeroplane.
It has been a super week!