Reception
4th November
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Welcome back to a vert busy half term.
The children have settled into school life and the routines really well after their holiday.
Just a polite reminder that reading books/sheets are changed on a Monday and library books on a Thursday.
Please keep your reading records and books in the school bag so we have them to write in and change accordingly.
This week we have been learning about Diwali the Hindu festival of light, Bonfire night and why we celebrate it and started to look at out topic of ' People who help us in our community' - The fire fighters.
If you spotted this link between all this .... 'Fire'
Therefore we have talked about how dangerous fires can be especially fireworks and matches.
Rangoli Patterns
Dressing up
Painting the characters in the story of Rama and Sita
Making Diva pots
Thank you for support at home!
Mrs Oddy and Mrs Hemingway
21st October
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What a super half term the children have had. They all really deserve the half term break and training day, looking to come back to school, on the 1st November.
This week we have been potion making and noticing the beautiful patterns on the pumpkins. Special attention to noticing and subitising 1-3.
We have also sent home their reading record and sheet/book to have a go at over the holidays.
Here are some of our highlights this week.
Last weeks baking - Autumn Owls
Using the glue sticks to paint skeletons
Mixing potions
A selection of themed stories
Have a great holiday rest and keep up the noticing and reading practise.
Mrs Oddy and the team.
14th October
admin on: Reception
Thank you all for attending the parents evening. It was lovely to meet everyone and talk about your children. We are really happy how they all have settled and now are just getting on with the routines and hussle and bussle of life in our Reception class.
Please check the Microsoft teams password again as the man has been in to fix it.
Also thank you for the baking contributions as they go towards baking and any food activities we do in class every week.
Autumn has arrived this week.
We made animal sculptures in the wood this week.
Using our noticing eyes and describing words to wildlife that we saw.
In maths we were working on patterns.
Ordering sticks is size order saying, longer than, shorter than.
What a busy Autumn week!
As many of you can't yet access Team.
The homework is to:
Watch an episode of Funny Bones..Utube
Discussing the character's in the story and that we are made up of bones inside us.
We celebrate the Pagan festival of Halloween every year in the Autumn Season.
Other festivals we will research after half term are Bonfire night, the festival of Diwali and finally Christmas.
Keep up the sounds, blending and reading to your children as this is so important for developing language vocabulary.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Oddy and the Team
October 7th
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Well what a helpful week we have had after reading and retelling the story of the Little Red Hen.
We have continued our daily phonics input and all the children are progressing in their letter formation and segmenting of a CVC word at what ever their individual level.
This week we have attempted to write these little words using our Fred fingers: cat kit cut bin and fun
Can you think of a rhyming word to go with these? e.g cat mat kit pit.
In maths we have been using the language:
bigger than
smaller than
shorter than
taller than
longer than
heavier than
lighter than
Here are a few highlights.
Helping hands hen
Fruit faces last week and this week we tried different breads make from wheat
Our Autumn paper doll families from last week
Colour mixing with our red and yellow hands
Last week we used our sticking skills to arrange Picasso faces
Conkers have been arriving at school as sign of our season Autumn.
Please can you go for a walk at the weekend to look and notice sign of Autumn. You can also use your new 'noticing knowledge' to allow the children to describe what they see and maybe a bit of subitising 1-3!
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Oddy
30th September
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Well this week we have been talking about our senses, families and parts of the body after reading the book below.
It also explores emotions and the memories hold in our heads even when something has gone.
In maths we have continued to look at similarities and differences with objects and have used the book below, Junk DNA to sort and then make our own characters, talking about the characteristics of each shape. and parts of the body.
Friendships and working together in our Reception Community
You hopefully will have the new
'Microsoft Teams' passwords and Login where I will put on a bit of practical homework on every week.
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Oddy