Reception Weekly Review

  Prime Areas

(Physical Development, Understanding the World, Communication and Language, Expressive Arts and Design and Personal, Social and Emotional Development). 

We had another enchanted week full of fairy tales and castle exploration. In the middle room this week we made fairy wings, fairy wands and fairy cakes. In the water tray we mixed water and glitter to make witches potions and told our friends what would happen if they drunk the potion. During PE we practiced our throwing skills with Coach Morris. We practiced throwing the bean bag different lengths and aiming to get it inside a hoop.

 PSED / PATHs

This week in PATHs we talked about uncomfortable and comfortable feelings. Twiggle lay on a chopping board and a pillow and we thought about which would be comfortable and uncomfortable. We talked about other times we might feel comfortable or uncomfortable e.g., if we are hurt or tucked up cosy in a bed. 

  English

This week we began reading our new book called ‘Ravi’s Roar’ by Tom Percival. In this book Ravi gets angry and turns into a tiger and yells and roars at his family and friends. We read half the book this week and talked about times this might have happened to us and what we could do if we could feel ourselves getting angry. We all pretended to be Ravi and showed our cross faces and said how we are feeling e.g., I am angry or I am moody. We all wrote our sentences with our teacher in a speech bubble.

Phonics

This week we revised the four new digraphs we learnt last week. We practiced three digraphs (two letters, one sound) and one trigraph (three letters, one sound) – ai (tail in the rain), ee (sheep in the jeep), igh (light in the night) and oa (soap that goat).We continued to practice our tricky words and are impressed with how many the children can remember.

 Maths

This week in maths we looked at composition of 5. We explored this idea through the song 5 little speckled logs. We looked at what two numbers could make 5 e.g., 3 and 2 or 4 and 1. Each child had a turn singing this song with their teacher and moving toy frogs from the speckled log into the pond. We also looked at making a timetable for our before school routine.

  Information and Key Dates

Information

Please remember we close the door in the morning promptly at 8.45 to start teaching a carpet session. If the door is closed please take your child and their belongings round to the main office. We are very sorry that we have such little time to talk to parents in the morning as the children really do need support with settling and we appreciate that you are kindly be mindful of this. Thank you

 Key Dates

Tuesday 7th January - First day of Spring 1 

Friday 24th January - Reception weight and height check

Tuesday 28th January - Handwashing workshop

Friday 14th February - Last day of Spring 1

Monday 24th February - First day of Spring 2 

Thursday 13th March - POLKA theatre trip

Monday 24th March - Internal visit from poet Valerie Bloom

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

 Miss Roborgh, Mrs Cunningham, Tara and Angie 

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 Things we need

Art

Do you have any of the following?

• Plastic bottle tops
• Boxes – large and small
• toilet rolls
• egg cartons
• cardboard boxes
• plastic bottles
• yoghurt pots
• bubble wrap
• newspapers and magazines
• shells
• CD
• recyclable straws
• Buttons

If you have any of these, we would love to have them.  Thanks