Sarfari, Alexander D Great and World Book Day

Hi Reception Families,

Now normally at the beginning of the blog I exclaim 'What a week' well this week, WHAT A WEEK!

There was such a positive vibe in Reception this week, it was wonderful to see the children so deeply engaged in their learning through play.

This week we were learning about Safari animals, we learnt where the continent of Africa is, and  about some of the animals who live there.  We have also really enjoyed watching Andy's Safari Adventure, we had a 'Play Project' where we designed our own 'Safari Mobile' to take Andy on his adventure. Play Projects are a wonderful way to structure play on a theme working with our peers in small groups. We give our play project a password to make it do something. It is wonderful to see the children so deeply in their play and working together.

We also had a sneaky visitor in the playground, there were confirmed sightings by Mr Spracklen, Mr Bascombe, Ms Evans and Mrs Briant.... There was a sneaky Crocodile.... To make sure we could use our outdoor area we made bridges, traps and tried to get the elephants come and scare it away by drawing leaves in chalk... Some children thought they saw the Croc, but we also think that the croc might be able to turn invisible!

Having a dry outdoor area has meant a welcome return to using chalk (oh how we missed it) we've found all sorts of ways of writing and practicing our pencil grip this week including on the climbing frame. Children were awarded 500 points for writing a word, 1000 points for writing their name and 5000 points for writing a sentence or a ditty (and luckily nobody asked me what the points were for! )

We've also a a very water based week, there was a lot of interest in making floods. I was so impressed with how the children worked out to make the water flow all the time. We worked together to tilt the watering can and keep it topped up so it was always flowed!

World Book Day was a real highlight this week, the children all looked wonderful ( 25,000 points for parents!) Thank you for coming to our story time, I hope you enjoyed The Balloon Tree?

We also made giraffes, practiced our fine motor skills by making paper chains, got the bikes out, practiced our numeral formation and learnt how to use the mighty split pin!

On Friday we had a wonderful time singing and listening to stories with Alexander D Great, it was such a treat!

Now, moving our attention to next week.

Firstly, it's our class assembly  on friday 10th March at 9.20 in the school hall, everyone is warmly invited to join us.

Drawing Club: Gorilla

Powermaths: Subtraction

Understanding the World: Life Cycle of a butterfly and the Very Hungry Caterpillar. 

Excitingly we also have a new play shed big thank you to Mr Bascombe and Mr Smith (aka Mr Evans) for building it for us this weekend, I can't wait to see how the children use it!

As ever if you need anything please do get in touch!

Ms Evans and the Reception Team.

World Book Day

 

Hello Reception Families

Just a reminder that it is World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March.

- Children to dress up as their favourite character from a book or as an author

- A book swap will be taking place where children are being asked to bring in an old book that they

don’t mind swapping. Children will place their old book in the hall at the start of the day and get

another at the end of the day

- During the week commencing 27th February 2023, the library will be opening at 15:10 everyday

where class teachers will be leading a story time. Families will be welcomed to join this and then

choose a library book for children to take home after. The days are listed below;

Monday - Year 4

Tuesday - Year 2

Wednesday - Reception

Thursday - Year 1

Friday - Year 3

We are really looking forward to Thursday

Many thanks

The Reception Team

Jungles, wild things and fantastic play

 Hi Reception Families,

We have had a wonderful start to the new half term, I have been blown away by the wonderful energy, talk and the most amazing play ever! It is always such a privilege to see the children taking their new knowledge and skills into their play. 

In Drawing Club this week we read Where the Wild Things are, the children made excellent wild things, ask them to show you their roars, gnash their teeth and claws!

This half term we are learning about Amazing Animals, we started our learning by exploring Jungle Animals, we have learnt about the different animals who live in the jungle and what jungles are like.

The children have spent a lot of time building animal enclosures and dens!

I have been impressed with everyone's writing this week, we have introduced finger spaces and full stops this week and the children are beginning to use these in their writing, they have also been extremely helpful when I 'forget' to use them.  

We have also been practicing our fine motor skills, remember to look through your Spring 2 knowledge organiser for simple activities you can do at home to help support this vital area of development.

In Make and Create we've been making animal faces, these have not come home yet as we have put them up in the classroom.

We had a wonderful time with Coach Luca this afternoon we also had our first Charanga music lesson with a hefty dose of the Wellerman too!

We had a wonderful time on Thursday being Jungle animals in the hall

Moving our attention to next week:

Drawing Club: Banana Man

Maths: Number sentences using + =

Understanding the World: We're Going on Safari

Children have started in their new Read Write Inc groups, most children will be bringing home either a sheet, a book or both, please spend some time supporting the children with these tasks, I have noticed a number of children mispronouncing some of the sounds this video below we help reinforce the correct pronunciation.

Children should have brought home a learning sheet with them, if they would like to return it we will happily hang it up on the castle!

It has truly been a wonderful week!

If there is anything we can do to help do not hesitate to get in touch.

Ms Evans and the Reception Team.