Reception
17th November
admin on: Reception
It's been another week of learning about people who help us in our community.
We would like to thank Lyle's Dad who came in last Friday to talk to us about being a fire fighter.
All the children had fun trying on the helmet.
Vocab words this week were: Cavity Decay Brush
Please encourage your child to practising writing their name but don't let them copy it or else they won't be able to do it independently on the sign in sheet on a morning.
This week we have been learning a lot about why we need to look after our teeth.
How, we look after our teeth by brushing twice a day and the importance of visiting the dentist.
We also talked about visiting the opticians to test our eye sight to see if we need to wear glasses.
Both these NHS practices are free up to the age of 18.
Please record once a week in your child's reading record which should be left in their bag with thier reading sheets all week.
Please tell us know how they did by writing a comment such as|: Read it well, found it tricky, got it after a few days.
We change the sheets/books every Monday so they both need to in their bags.
In mathematics we looked at properties of shapes such as triangles and circles. How many side and edges. Slides have to be straight so a circle has one curved edge.
We also talked about how to be a good friend for 'Anti Bullying' week and how to work as a team.
Friday we thought about why we are raising money for 'Children in Need'
Thank you for your support at home,
Mrs Oddy and the Team
Natural Art Eye Sculpture in the woods
Designing our own tooth brush
Using 3 sticks to make shapes and one pipe cleaner which makes a curved edge for a circle.
Using tooth brushes to clean the teeth.
Using our drawing skills to design a monster with big teeth.
Working as a team.
10th November
admin on: Reception
What a busy week we have had:
Our words for this week: SIREN FIRE EXTINGUISHER FIRE HYDRANT
We looked for the fire extinguishers around school.
We talked about bonfire night and what the children saw and heard.
We learnt about the Hindu festival of light called Diwali and made our own clay Dyva pots.
We talked about the role of fire fighters, that they live in our community and how brave they are to keep us safe.
In maths we looked at grouping 1,2 and 3's
one more ,one less, two fewer , two more?
We also learnt about why we celebrate remembrance day and of the soldiers who keep our county safe.
Here are a few photo's
Doh Dyva pot
Clay Dyva pots
Working with tools
Linking ladders
Grouping 1 2 3
Making fires in the woods
Grouping 1,2,3 's
Drawing to support writing
Group Mehndi patterns after drawing round hands
Please look on Teams for homework.
If anyone would like to come into school and talk about their job if you work in the community as a nurse, vet, doctor, firefighter, police officer, trades, postal worker and more we will be very grateful.
Thank you for all your support.
Mrs Oddy and the Team
26.10.23
admin on: Reception
Hello,
What a fun last week celebrating Halloween and all the fun activities to go with it.
Thank you for attending parents evening we are very proud of how all the children have settled and are progressing at their own individual pace.
Here are a few highlights.
Making potions
Painting Skelatons
Sorting 1 2 3 but subitising dots
Chalk mark making
Thank you for all your support.
Please look on micro-soft teams for short videos of me telling you how to help your child blend and use the 5 frame flash cards.
Plus pre learning video for after the holidays about Diwali.
Thank you for your support at home.
Mrs Oddy and the Team
20th October
admin on: Reception
A busy week of Autumn weather again.
Vocab words this week : hibernation swirling and twirling
A freezing start to the week so I was hoping for some Autumn coloured leaves but no luck! as the weather warmed up.
We did get out into the woods and make an art collage of a hedgehog from natural materials we found.
We began our subitising journey looking at groups of 1 2 3 without counting them.
We used a 5 frame (which can be found on my Reception class web page or just draw one on a piece of paper) to place the object on, starting with the left empty box and put one conker in each box to fill it.
When it is full there is 5. - no need to count
We looked at 3 and how many spaces were left on the 5 frame. They can tell you this without counting!
We then had to make 2. What do we need to do? 'Take one away' some one said. 'Yes that right, so 2 is a smaller amount than 3'. We continued with questions like this.
So much maths with 3 conkers and a 5 frame.
We painted with sticks. Printed with leaves and fingers this week.
Learning 5 more phonics sounds total 25 now!
Blending w-e-t w-e-b. v-a-n. v-e-t. j-a-m- j-e-t-
Autumn Hedgehog
Using 5 frames
subitising small groups of 1 2 3
Funky finger - fine motor control strengthening
Revising patterns in own play
Building animal homes.
Please look at the assignments of teams for next week book!
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Oddy and the Team
13th October
admin on: Reception
The warm weather this week has been lovely for the children to play outside.
Thank you for collecting lots of lovely signs of Autumn on your walks. We used them for talking time and making patterns.
Words of the week were : Harvest festival Kindness
The story we have been retelling is The Little Red Hen!
We have been making patterns with natural objects and printing a pattern with objects.
It has been mental health awareness week so we have been thinking about things that make us happy.
In the woods we made some happy faces with natural objects.
We have now learnt 20 sounds we are half way though set 1.
We will be quizzing the children next week on the ones they have remembered.
Here are some highlights.
Colour mixing
Team work for making our hen!
patterns
Using our noticing skills to talk about the objects
patterns
Thank you for all you support at home.
Mrs Oddy and the Team.