Reception
14th October
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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
23rd September 2022
admin on: Reception
This week we have learnt about our emotions through the book called Colour Monsters by Anna Llenas
The children have tried to recognise these emotions in themselves and times when they were excited or sad and also on pictures of people faces.
They made some wonderful monster in the cutting and sticking area and painted their own monster.
We also introduced #Funky fingers# which happens in a morning with a selection of 3 activities which they complete to music each lasting a minute. These are to strengthen the fine motor control for cutting and pencil control.
Thank you for your support.
Looking forward to seeing you on Friday 2.45-3.15 for the Phonics Workshop.
Mrs Oddy
16th September
admin on: Reception
We must say we are so impressed with the way your child has settled this week and taken on all the new rules and routines of school life.
They have all been fantastic making their way up to lunch in the big hall and eating with the knife and forks. I have never seen so many clean plates from a Reception class.
Below are just some on the activities we have out on offer for the children in our continuous provision.
Next Friday 23rd September, I am inviting you into the Reception class a little earlier than the end of school time, for a short workshop on how we teach phonics and how you can help at home.
2.45-3.15pm.
You child will be in assembly at this time so there is no need for child care.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Oddy