Reception Learning and Home Learning!

Good morning to you all!

The children have thoroughly enjoyed taking their learning about the sea further this week. I was astounded by their writing when I came in. This week they have been focusing on descriptive language by writing poems about what they could hear in a conch shell! Cbeebies Old Jack's Boat Rockpool series - Old Jack's Boat series this week was the inspiration for our learning, we have been discussing rock pools and making them outside as well as talking about local beaches such as Chesil Beach and links to pirates! Reception have had great fun designing and constructing pirate ships and planks to walk! We learned some pirate language: pieces of eight = Spanish coins, scuttle = to sink a ship, shark bait = walk the plank, run a rig = play a trick.

In Power Maths, this week, we are working on Unit 8 - week 4 - comparing numbers upto 10. The focus language that you can reinforce at home is: fewer, more, less than and more than. The children have been amazing us with what very independent learners they are becoming!

We are very excited about our Story Teller visit next week and this will be our Sea themed literacy focus next week, not only with writing and reading but developing our oracy skills further!

Parent consultation evenings are next week - Tuesday and Wednesday 3:50pm - 6:30pm, please pop in and sign up for a slot. Mrs. Smith and I will both be leading the evenings and we are very much looking forward to meeting you all again and having the opportunity to share with you how fantastically well your children are doing and the progress they are making!

Home Learning this week:

• Power maths booklets - Unit 8 week 4
• RWInc reading
• Feel free to take letter formation sheets as and when
• Weather permitting and if you have time, why not visit a beach for a windy adventure..........can you find any rock pools? What did you find in them? Can you make up a story about a rock pool? Go crabbing or take a fishing net to the rock pools. Can you describe what the sea is like on your visit using exciting vocabulary - use your senses - what do the waves look like? sound like? feel like? Could you paint a picture of the sea? Maybe you could make a rock pool at home - use a baking tray, the sink, the bath or junk modelling! How can you add some counting in to your adventure?
• Tongue Twister   Can you learn this tongue twister and tell it to the class?
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Have a super weekend!

Mrs. J, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cura.

 

Reception Wednesday 22nd January 2020

Good evening!

It was wonderful to be able to go into school this afternoon and spend time with the children showing me all their learning. We were counting down the days until I can come back!!!!!!!

Continuing with our learning about our blue planet, we used the Julia Donaldson story - The Snail and the Whale to inspire our learning. The children created "Save the Whale" posters and wrote letters to the fireman, they also developed descriptive language by writing adjectives to describe the whale and the snail - massive, colossal, gigantic, teeny, small, tiny. They also enjoyed thinking of and writing speech bubbles to accompany pictures from the story.

This week, in Power Maths, we are working on Unit 7 week 3 - please look for week 3 in your booklet for Friday's homelearning.

All RWInc reading books will be changed on Friday so please can you place them, along with their red or blue exercise book, in the basket on the table as you come in in the morning - thank you!

In preparation for our guest storyteller in a couple of weeks time, we have been practising ourselves! A HUUUUUUGGGEEEE well done to Sennen, Charlotte, Mia, Alek, Dylan and Georgia who have been our guest storytellers so far. They have thoroughly enjoyed the chance to share their favourite stories with the class using story teller voices and amazing confidence. The children will let you know if it is their turn to bring a story in.

The children are already reaping the benefits of our small world area, using their imaginations and rich dialogue as well as developing their vocabulary.

This Friday we will be making tuna fish cakes, so if your child has a fish allergy, please see one of the team before Friday.

...........and Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cura!

Reception Home Learning Spring Term week 2 2020

Reception Home Learning

Friday 17^th January 2020

·      Power Maths booklet Unit 7. When they have finished the activity, please try to find other ways in and around the house or out and about for your child to practise. Try to use the key vocabulary too, this will support exactly what and how they are learning in class.

·      RWInc book. Share the book several times over the week in order for your child to feel confident and successful. If it is daunting for them at first, try reading it to them or read a word each. Encourage them to use look for the “Special Friends” first, then “Fred Talk”. In the lesson we use these terms continuously, so the more they hear you saying it too, the more it will become an embedded skill to help them decode new words. Return the book NEXT Thursday.

·      Share the Edward Lear poem – The Owl and the Pussycat. Use the links on the blog to share it with your child – can they repeat any of it? Challenge: We are going to try to learn it as a whole class! The children absolutely loved the poem and made models of at the creation station.

Reception - Tuesday 14th January 2020

Good evening........and what a blustery one it is - I hope noone has blown away!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to those of you who were able to make it to our Parent Information Session, if you weren't able to then please see the link on facebook to the slides.

Power Maths this week is unit 7 - numbers to 10 which supports the early learning goal: count reliably with numbers from 1 - 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Key language: count, how many, total, altogether, count forwards, count backwards, same, different, odd one out.

Yesterday, a message in a bottle was discovered by the big, blue boat near the staff room. The Owl and the Pussycat were stranded on an island and needed help getting home. The children quickly set to designing and constructing their own boats as well as writing new messages to the Owl and the Pussycat!


Challenge: I wonder if anyone can learn the Edward Lear poem that was published in 1871?????????

The Owl and the Pussycat - sung
The Owl and the Pussycat - read

Yippee, everyone will get their RWInc reading book this Friday and don't forget to come in and use our library whenever you like.

Finally, thank you for staying in contact, I have really enjoyed emails, photos and videos that you have sent!

Mrs. J, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cura

Reception Home Learning Thursday 9th January 2020

Good evening,

It was soooooooo lovely to see everyone today! The children had so much to tell me and were so kind and caring! They all signed my freshly plastered leg and decorated my chair. I loved the card they made and it will cheer me up no end.

Tomorrow they will bring home their new Power Maths booklet. This is to stay at home until we have finished the Spring Term units. This week we have been working on unit 6 week 1, so please take some time to explore this at home (it tells you unit 6 week 1 at the top of the page in their booklet). Key language that we have been using and will continue to use: part-whole model, count, same, different, sort, group, whole, parts and more than. Key questions: Where is the whole in the model?  Where are the parts? How many parts make the whole? Please use these at home.

One RWInc group will be coming home with their first reading book, these are to be read as many times as the child likes - this is essential in order for the child to feel success and to build confidence. The books will need to be returned EVERY THURSDAY and new ones given out on a Friday. The book will link to the learning they are doing in their group. New books are on order for other groups.

Children that do not bring a book home yet need to continue to practise Fred Talking and blending.

I can't wait to come in again soon!

Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cura.

Reception Tuesday 7th January 2020

Good evening,

I am so very sorry that I cannot be in class at the moment - I miss everyone very much. I did send the children some pictures and a message as well as a video and today the class face timed me to introduce the new class fish which they named Lily and Chase. The names were chosen by a fair and democratic vote! I intend to send a video of me telling them a story and will be popping in for a surprise visit at some point this week!

The children have settled in well to the new term and are loving our new topic - Blue Planet. Mrs. Smith has displayed all their jellyfish and they are producing some amazing writing which is currently being displayed in the Writing Hall of Fame (WHoF Wall) - the main school entrance, please take a look! Hopefully they are dazzling you too with new topic themed vocabulary as they have been learning collective noun names for groups of different sea creatures!

Basketball was a huge success, half the class participated this week and the other half will take part next Tuesday - this will be a weekly lesson! We are currently learning a sea themed dance with Mr. Treble in preparation to perform at the Reception Dance Festival coming up soon.

Information about Power Maths will come home on Friday and I will blog then too!

Mr. Spracklen and Mrs. Smith will be leading the Spring Term Reception Parent Information Session as planned.

Many thanks for your well wishes and support,

Mrs. Johnson and The Wonder Team - Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cura.

Reception are here to help.........clear out your cupboards!

New Year Sales request................

In your Spring Clean post Christmas cupboard clear outs, Reception wondered if you came across any of the following which we would greatly receive............

We really want to build upon the success of our role play resources that you kindly donated to, so any unwanted shoes, belts, hats, scarves, shawls, clothes - suit jackets/dresses, jewellery or accessories would be fantastic.

Our area of focus this term is our small world provision which will enhance communication, language, imagination and oracy skills. If you have any unwanted playmobil figures, fairies or animals, or small wooden figures we would be really grateful for to build a collection of these. Along with the figures we wondered if any of you have any interesting, small wooden off cuts that the children could use their immaginations to construct with. Scraps of material and irredescent fabrics are also useful for the small world area.


And finally: buttons, shells, glass beads, keys etc are great natural items for the children to count with, sort or create with.

Thank you so much for your help............please don't go out and buy anything - have a rummage in the back of a cupboard instead!!!!!!!!!

Mrs. J and Mrs. Smith

Reception week 1 2020

Happy 2020 Everyone!

We hope you have all had fun, festive family time and managed to relax as well as eat yummy food!

Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Cura and I would like to take this opportunity to say a very heart felt thank you to all of you for your thoughtful and generous gifts. We were all absolutely blown away and did not expect the surprise at all!!!!!!!! It really did make us very emotional................we know how much you support us and would like to reiterate just how much we love our jobs and coming to school every day. It really is a privilege to be a part of their first year in school and a step along their educational journey. Each and every one of our class is a unique individual who is precious to us.

Here's to an exhilerating 2 more terms!!!!!!! Mrs. Smith and I have lots of inspiring learning planned that we hope will ignite curiosity and imaginations............that is all I will say!!!!!!!!!!!

A few reminders: PE kits need to be in school by Tuesday please - we now have a regular basket ball lesson lead by a professional coach, this will take place on Tuesdays. Our PE with Mr. Treble will continue on a Wed and Thurs but we have decided that as there are 3 sessions of PE, we will run the lessons as half a class at a time so that children maintain an equal balance between Physical development and independent free learning time.

We will be starting a new Power Maths book - children will be sent home with these as before - we do ask, please, if you could try to follow the weekly lessons rather than completing the booklet all in one go. Thank you for all your support with these last term - the children absolutely love Power Maths. I will blog weekly key vocabulary that you can use at home.
The RWInc hand writing sheets will continue to be just inside the classroom for you to take as and when you like.
The children will be in new RWInc groups and some groups will begin bringing home corresponding home reading books - more information to follow!!!!!!!!!

We are all looking forward to seeing you!

Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cura