What a hot, sunny weeks it’s been! We have made our outside area as shaded as possible so that the children can safely explore the outdoors.

In Literacy this week we have read a little more of our book ‘The Sea Saw’. The children pretended that they are the sea and have written about what they can see around them on the picture. The little girl in the story travels by train, bus and boat to get to the beach, following on from this the children made trains and buses and tickets to travel:

In Maths we have been continuing our learning ‘Find my pattern’. This week we have been learning about sharing and grouping:

In LEX time we have followed the children’s interests:

Following on from our Literacy story the children have been making and pretending to go on picnics. Following on from this, on Thursday we had a fabulous teddy bears picnic. Our friends and families came and, of course, our teddy bears came to:

We’ve had a busy, sunny week this week in Reception

In Literacy we looked at our most precious item. We described them and why they are precious as we saw pictures of them on the interactive white board. We then glued a photograph of them onto a heart shape and wrote about them:

We read some more of ‘The Sea Saw’ and made invitations to our teddy bear’s picnic:

In our maths we have been finishing our ‘Doubles learning’. We found doubles in lots of different places and when we found a double we took a photo of it using the iPad:

During LEX time we have followed and extended the children’s interests:

We had bubble mixture with various shaped wands for the children to explore and they used socks and bottles to make sock bubbles:

We set up an ice-cream shop and made sand mousse ice-creams:

We had orange water:

We set up an ice-cream tuff tray using foam and cereal to make the ice-cream:

Some of the children set up their own obstacle course, it was quite tricky to walk along but they persevered:

On Friday as a treat we had real ice-cream for snack. We all had 10p to buy an ice-cream. The children waited patiently in the queue, paid their money, chose the flavour ice-cream, sprinkles and sauce. They then ate the ice-cream sitting in the shade.

We had a visit from a lady from Oswestry library. She told us about the Summer Reading Challenge:

Next week we will be continuing to read ‘The Sea Saw’ in Literacy.  In Maths we will be learning about sharing into groups.

We have decided to have a teddy bears picnic next week. We have made invitations and more information will be sent via Dojo.

We’ve had a short but busy week this week, here are some of the activities we have joined in with:

In Maths we have been learning about doubles. We have been ‘Doubles Detectives’ hunting for doubles inside the classroom. We have had many opportunities to make doubles on ladybirds using counters and pompoms, doubling the stripes on tigers and matching doubles.

In Literacy we talked about what we did during the half term holiday, we looked at photographs of us which our grown ups have sent to Mrs Meddins. We drew a picture and wrote about what we did during half term.

We started our book ‘The Sea Saw’ by Tom Percivalwhich will be our Literacy focus for this half term by looking at the front cover and talking about what we could see. We predicted what we think is going to happen in the story.

We had another visit to Holy Trinity Church. The children were amazing; as we walked to church they chatted about what they could see. When we got to the church the children listened carefully to what Mark told them about the church and what happens inside it

We learned about ‘World Oceans Day’. We found a turtle with plastic around its neck; we talked about the rubbish in our environment and the consequences it can have on animals

In Phonics on Friday we played a game; we danced to the music and then when the music stopped we had to listen to the instructions as to write a letter, red tricky word or our name

In PE we started practising for our sports day. There was so many instructions for the children to follow but they were fantastic

We had some sand delivered this week, during LEX time some children helped collect it and put it in the sand tray. They worked as a team using shovels and spades to fill wheelbarrows and push them to the sand tray and empty the sand in

During LEX time a group of children sat in a circle with a ball, they said they were playing pass the parcel with the ball. They did this a few times and then swapped the ball for a bottle and said they were playing flip the bottle. They took turns and played as a team.

Next week in Maths we will be learning about grouping and sharing and in Literacy we will be showing and writing about our most precious thing.

This week much of our learning has involved the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We have learned from stories, PowerPoints and items related to the Jubilee and the Queen.

During the week some of the Reception children had their first visit to Holy Trinity Church where Mark talked to them about the different parts of the church and what happens in church. We listened to Mark and Jill play music and some children played the organ:

To celebrate the Jubilee we have made bunting by drawing, colouring by numbers, collage and finger painting. We used play dough to make cakes and lollipops for the Queen:

We received a letter from the Queen asking us to decorate some knickers for her to wear during her Platinum Jubilee celebrations. She sent us a box full of white knickers which we decorated:

We iced biscuits and decorated them with red, white and blue sprinkles and we made crowns to wear at our street party:

We joined in with lots of Jubilee activities in the classroom and outdoors. These included a picnic at snack time, hook a duck, toss the beanbag, whole school lunch street party, performing Baby Shark to the school, watching the other classes perform their songs from the past 7 decades and maypole dancing:

We all had a fabulous time celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

We have had another busy week in Reception.

In Literacy we have finished reading our ‘Gigantosaurus’ story. Following on from the story this week we have been talking about friendship. We discussed who is our friend and why. We made friendship bracelets and wrote our own recipe for a friendship potion.

In Maths we have been learning about most and least. We had some jewels in jars which we counted and then ordered the jars least to most. We also learned more about 2D and 3D shapes:

Each Thursday afternoon we have LEX time with the children from Nursery. This gives all the children an opportunity to explore the different areas in Early Years and supports transition for the children who will move into Reception in September. The children enjoy this time getting to know each other and spending time with all the adults in Early Years.

Next week we will be retelling the Gigantosaurus story and learning about the Queen and the Platinum Jubilee. 

We have been very busy in Reception over the past few weeks. Here is some of the learning we have been joining in with: 

In Literacy our learning has been focussing around the book ‘Gigantosaurus’ by Johnny Duddle. We had great excitement when a box arrived in class. Inside the box were some dinosaur eggs, a letter and the ‘Gigantosaurus’ book. Following on from this we have drawn and described our own ‘Gigantosaurus’, written words on footprints to describe a Gigantosaurus’s footsteps and made lists of food we could feed the Gigantosaurus. We have also joined in lots of Literacy activities independently:

Our Maths learning is ‘First, then, now’. We have been learning about adding on and subtracting. We have been joining in many fun activities during our maths learning:

We have had lots of fun exploring our new climbing equipment and we have talked about how to use it safely:

During our LEX time (Learning and Exploring) we have inititiated our own learning and followed our interests:

We took part in our first PE session for a while:

We have had  an assembly with Mark and Alice from the church. They talked to us about ‘Friendship’.

We have had another busy week in Reception.

We talked about Easter and what we know about it.

We then listened to the Easter story and talked about the reason we celebrate Easter.

In Literacy we made Easter cards and wrote inside them. 

In Maths we have been continuing to learn about number bonds. We used our fingers and then numicon to make number bonds to 5 and then 10. We played ‘musical number bonds’ when we each had a piece of numicon and danced to the music. When the music stopped we had to find a partner who had a piece of numicon to make 5 and then 10:

In LEX time we had lots of Easter activities to choose from:

We made Easter nests. We talked about what happened to the chocolate when it was in the microwave and we decided how much chocolate we needed to make our nests a good consistency:

We went on an Easter bonnet parade through school to show off the Easter bonnets we had made at home and in school:

Thank you to the children and families who joined in our under the sea home learning project. The children presented theirs to the class and this week they have been on display for everyone to see:

On Friday we thought the Easter Bunny may bring us some Easter eggs. But Mrs Meddins had a phone call to say that the Easter Bunny has chickenpox; we were all very disappointed. But everything turned out to be okay because the Easter Bunny had arranged for his cousin Peter Rabbit to bring our Easter eggs. The Easter Bunny hid them outside and later we all did an Easter egg hunt.

We would like to wish you all a very Happy Easter!

  See you on Monday 25th April.