Lighthouses, Sandwiches and using an Atlas

 Hi Reception Families,

It has been a busy week!

This week we have been learning about The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch. We focussed on making seagulls and lighthouses in a variety of ways, practicing our fine motor skills.

The children also created beautiful silhouette pictures using pastels. Children learnt to 'smudge and blend' the colours together.

We used The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch as our stimulus in English, today we wrote instructions on how to make a sandwich.

In Understanding the World we used atlases to find the coast, and study which countries are islands and which don't have a coast.

We've also played and played!

Turning our attention to next week:

Reminder school is closed on Wednesday and Friday to most pupils due to strike action.

Drawing Club: The Night Pirates (two week focus)

Understanding the World: Pirates (two week focus)

Maths: Composition and groups.

Prostrike is on Monday.

Our final transition session visit into Year one will be on Thursday, children will need to be picked up from the Key Stage One entrance not from Reception.

Thank you to all those who were able to come to our 'Sandwich session' this afternoon, we love having grown ups to visit! 

Please can you check to see if your child brought home an Optimus Prime toy recently, we would like to return it to its owner.

As the grass get longer, we would recommend checking children for ticks, we will check the children when they come back in after lunch.

As ever do get in touch if there is anything you would like to discuss. 

Ms Evans and the Reception Team.

Sharing a Shell, Rockpools and Hermit Crabs

Hi Reception Families,

We had a wonderful week! 

Our focus in English was The Sharing Shell, we wrote fantastic sentences about the story. On Friday we even had a go at writing our own Sharing Shell story.

 In Maths we were learning about Volume and Capacity.

We've also been practicing our counting and sorting skills. 

In Understanding the World we have continued our focus of the Seaside, this week the children have really enjoyed a variety of ice cream themed activities. 

In Scarf we learnt about the Human Life Cycle we worked in our bird groups and created a fantastic poster showing the Human Life Cycle.

We also made puppets shows based on our story The Sharing Shell and practiced our cutting skills!

In Drawing Club we focused on The Poddington Peas, it's safe to say the children absolutely LOVE The Poddington Peas! 

Children had a positive visit to Year One on Thursday afternoon, there will be another two transition afternoons.

Turning our attention to next week:

Drawing Club: Chicken Licken

English: The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch

Understanding the World: Coasts and beaches, finding a beach using an Atlas. The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch.

Maths: Cardinality Counting.

SCARF: Where do babies come from?

PE: Wednesday Morning please come into school wearing your PE kit.

Please ensure that children bring a drinks bottle, hat and wear suncream as the hot weather continues.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!

As part of our learning about the Lighthouse Keepers Lunch we would like to invite you to attend our Lighthouse Keepers Picnic at 3:00 on Friday. Children will be making a special sandwich to share with you at the picnic!

As ever, please do get in touch if we can help with anything.

Ms Evans and the Reception Team.