This week in the classroom

Thursday 15th May

Reception class have had a great week of learning and play.

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; 'there, when, what, one'. 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 continued focus on a non-fiction book called Seed to Sunflower, about how seeds grow and what a plant needs to stay healthy. Children have been writing sentences about sunflowers and the seeds they planted. 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 composition of the number10, using physical objects like counters and die patterns or tens frames to demonstrate different ways to compose 10, for example 9 + 1, 8 + 2, 7 + 3, 6 + 4, 5 + 5. Children sang '10 fat sausages' and used their fingers to count down.

Children have enjoyed a number of activities this week. Children all made beautiful butterfly collages, made to look like stained glass. They used tissue paper, card and plastic! They used printing techniques to print a very hungry caterpillar, and pipe cleaners to make insects. Children also used their creativity to make rockets, cars, and much more. Using doh,, the children made different minibeasts. They also enjoyed dressing up with our new clothes! Outside, they have built dens and enjoyed more water play using the chutes and pipes.

It has been a lovely week!

Thursday 8th 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; 'were, here, little, says'. 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 continuedon a new book called Seed to Sunflower. It is a non-fiction book about how seeds grow and what a plant needs. Children have been writing sentences describing the sunflower at the end of the book. 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 composition of numbers up to 10, using physical objects like counters and die patterns or tens frames to demonstrate different ways to compose 5.

Children have really enjoyed a variety of additional activities this week. They have all made spiders using craft resources, painted minibeast masls and more. To celebrate VE day, children coloured and made their own flags, then made their own jam sandwiches. We then went out for a picnic on the field.

It has been a super week!