Reception Thursday 27th February 2020.......London's calling!

Good evening!

Thank you so much for all your kind words and well wishes, I am privileged to come to work each day to teach your children and be a part of such a warm community. I was so happy to be back and the children have been amazing, they are a credit to each and every one of you - so caring and considerate! It makes my heart melt!

"Who else lives in our world?" is our topic this half term.

This week we have been exploring the differences between a village, a town and a city with a focus on our capital city, London; the Queen, Queen Victoria and the history of afternoon tea, famous London landmarks such as Big Ben, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace and The Tower of London. We identified where the UK is on the world map and then zoomed in to a map of the UK to find Dorchester and London. As well as baking Victoria sandwich cakes, making Union Jack flags, building and making crowns, models of London modes of transport and London landmarks, we also wrote tea party invitations to the Queen, questions for the Queen and even drew her portrait looking at black and white photos. Reception are now learning a "wow" word of the day.........have you been told you are elegant, stunning or graceful this week????? (Words inspired by our Queen!) Tomorrow's word is "exquisite."

See these links for the songs we have been learning, do continue to practise these at home!

London Bridge is Falling Down

Pussy Cat Nursery Rhyme

Home Learning: We were bowled over by the amazing half term home learning that has been coming in, the children clearly had a fabulous time! Well done!
Children have settled in well to their RWInc groups and they will be bringing their new book home tomorrow, please do continue to write in their little red record book, it is really helpful! Take time to review the speed sounds and story green words.
Power Maths - Unit 10 week 7 - part part whole, number bonds to 10 - you can deepen learning further by using the language fewer and more as well as using items around the house to explore number bonds to 10.

FYI - exciting news............Beginning NEXT Thursday, Mrs. Thorpe is going to be leading a weekly 2 hour Forest School session just for Reception! There will be further details to follow. Three groups will have 5 weeks consecutive sessions and then these will swap to the other three groups for 5 weeks. Next Thursday, for 5 weeks, it will be the Polar Bears, the Red Pandas and the Brown Bears.


I wonder where in the world we will explore next week.............?

Mrs. J, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Burgess

Reception Sunday 23rd February 2020 - IMPORTANT INFORMATION - please read!

What a wild and windy half term!!!!!!!!!!!!! We hope you have all had a lovely break.

It was due to be the Reception class assembly this coming Friday 28th February, however, as I am only just back, we will be postponing it until Thursday 19th March at 9:20am. I am sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

FYI: World Book Day = Thursday 5th March 2020. The children are invited to come in to school dressed as their favourite story book character in order to celebrate a love of reading and literacy. Don't feel you have to buy a costume - home made are always brilliant!!!!!!!

Ideas: The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Highway Rat, Room on the Broom, The Selfish Crocodile, Mr. and Mrs. Large, Whatever Next, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Paddington, Mr. Men and Little Miss, Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, The Big Bad Wolf.....................

On World Book Day please could each child bring in a book from home (named) for some activities we would like to do.

See you all tomorrow!

Mrs. J and Mrs. Smith

Reception Thursday 13th February 2020

Happy Last Day of Term Everyone!


Wow, where have these 6 weeks gone? The progress ALL children have made since coming back from Christmas is tremendous! Reception have thoroughly enjoyed their learning all about Our Blue Planet! I am busy collating a whole class project book from this half term, which will be in class after the holiday for you all to see and share with the children!

As you know, the children were taken on a journey over the rainbow into a world of magic...........it truly has been a "magical" week............unfortunately a dragon came over night and "bear napped" Paddington! Disaster!!!!!!!! So we have been exploring dragons, creating traps, drawing maps, making potions, writing stories, writing potions to bring Paddington back..........I hope we get him back!!!!!

Power Maths this week has been Unit 10 week 6 number bonds to 10, a solid understanding of the number bonds to 10 is the foundation of understanding all number bonds.
We have also been preparing our flower beds by weeding them and are very excited to start planting soon!

As you will have seen on the board outside the classroom, all RWInc books should be returned today, new ones will be given out after half term when the children start new groups. Children will come home with a sheet that will be highlighted to show you the RWInc group your child will be in and a summary of what they will be learning. As a guide, Reception children are expected to leave Reception at Green Level.

Home Learning:

Power Maths Unit 10 week 6
Reading: share stories, have fun story telling, think about what character you might like to dress up as for World Book Day.
Practise your letter formation.

Choose:

• Send Mr. Spracklen a postcard adressed to the school 
• If you happen to have a surprise visit to London, please bring back pictures of your trip 
• Scavenger hunt project:

1. Find a stick and make it into a character.
2. Find and order 5 different sized leaves.
3. Take a picture of something blue.
4. Take a picture of an old building.
5. How many different examples of water can you count and a picture of or draw?
6. Make a model, collage, painting or drawing of something you like when you visit the Borough Gardens.

Have LOTS of fun!

I CANNOT wait to see you all soon!!!!!!!!!

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

Reception Thursday 6th February 2020

Hello Everyone!

It was wonderful to see so many of you at the Parent Consultation evenings this week; we were so proud of all the children and excited to share their progress with you all. If you were unable to attend, then please do contact us to arrange a more convenient time. I would also like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to Mrs. Smith for giving up her time to join me and share the learning that has taken place since Christmas.

We absolutely loved the beach themed home learning that has been coming in and the children have really enjoyed standing up in front of the class and sharing their adventures. Also, the various creative sea creatures that are hanging in the reading area are phenomenal!

The children have been thoroughly absorbed by our story telling focus this week and our visitor, Martin Maudsley, on Tuesday inspired them all. It really was a fun and valuable opportunity for children to develop so many skills: speaking, listening, team work, expression, imagination, story language, vocabulary, sentence structure and performance skills.

In Power Maths this week we have been exploring and deepening our understanding of part, part, whole.

As we shared with you all, at the Parent Consultation evenings, where your child is in RWInc, Mrs. Smith is still carrying out assessments. As promised, we will send home a highlighted progress sheet next Thursday with a RWInc book for the half term holiday.

On Monday we have our Dance Festival, thank you to the volunteers who are accompanying us. We will take photographs and film their dance so that you can see it during next week at drop off and pick up times. The children will have an early lunch on Monday and will be back at school by 3:30pm. Please check the weather forecast and ensure the children have suitable coats etc. as we will be walking there and back.

Home Learning:

• Power Maths - Unit 9 week 5 - addition to 10 and combining 2 groups together
• RWInc books
• Can you be a story teller? You could be filmed telling a story and send it to us - you could do this using a book or by making up your own story! Can you make up a story that has a pirate, a dragon, a cat and dragon gold in it? Can you use the words: suddenly, magic, next and carefully in your story? Use some toys at home to make up and tell your story. Can you use different voices for your characters and give them names? Could you change the characters from a story you already know "The Three Little Hippos!" Can you find an interesting place to tell your story - at the dinner table, in the park, in your garden, in the bath, in a den with a torch, in the woods, on a farm, out on a walk????????????? Can you get your family to join in or even dress up? If you want to, you could even write your story down!!!!!!!!!!!
• Have LOTS of fun with your story!

Thank you once again for all your support!

Mrs. J, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cura

................something magical is brewing, not all is as it seems next week...............