Reception Weekly Review

 Prime Areas

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

Our Continuous Provision has been enhanced by our work on animal habitats and to link to our work on Leonard the Lion the home corner has transformed into a ‘Savanah’ complete with a safari tent and wild animals.  The Children have loved playing with the Fire Station and Doctors resources in the classrooms. The stories and narratives that they have brought to their role-paly have been both imaginative and entertaining! This links to the learning in our Topic Sessions on the theme of ‘people who help us’.

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It was very special to come together with the whole school on Monday for our annual Armistice Day Event. All of the children in Reception were amazing and showed all of the Ravenstone Values when observing the two-minute silence. It was very moving for all involved. Thank you to all of the parents and carers who joined us for this this.

This week in PATHs we looked at various role-play situations using the Twiggle (turtle) and Duke (Dog) puppets. The children identified when it would be a good idea to ‘Do Turtle’ in a range of different scenarios. Needless to say, we all practiced this regulation method at every given opportunity.

 English

A major highlight this week has been our draw-a-long with a video of Ed Vere, the author and illustrator of our  topic book, ‘How to be a Lion’. The children’s versions of Leonard the lion literally blew us away! We were so impressed with how they followed the instructions and created beautiful pictures of this gentle beast. Even more impressive a was the fact that the children then decided to make other Leonard pictures using what they had learnt during Learning Through Play. As if this wasn’t enough, our focused English task was to write a sentence or phrase describing Leonard to go alongside their illustrations. Wow!

Our new GPCs this week are z and zz as in zebra and buzz, ch as in cherry, qu as in queen and we have also looked at words that are plural and have the letter s at the end. We have continued learning a new Tricky Word each day, and this week’s words are go, no, to and into. We have continued to read a sentence daily and also to write a word by segmenting and linking graphemes to phonemes with the help of our Grapheme Mats.

Maths 

This week we looked at measuring length using the words longer and shorter to compare two things. We used a meter stick in our whole class session to see if a real-life lion would actually fit in our rooms. We also used unifix blocks to measure various toys (as a non-standard unit of measure). In Mastering Number, the children built on their understanding of the composition of numbers by investigating the composition of 3, 4 and 5. Composing and de-composing numbers involves the children investigating part–part–whole relations, e.g. seeing that 3 can be composed of 1 and 2. For their focused activity the children were asked to create prints with paints to answer the question, ‘How many ways can you print 4 dots?’ It was great fun and Cally Creative would have been impressed!

Forest School 

This week we started our ‘Forest School’ offer with 11 children from Miss Roborgh’s class. Tara and Edress took the session and the children had a brilliant time exploring and investigating in our ‘Wild Place’. We are very grateful to Edress who comes over from Chesterton School top lead the project here at Ravenstone.

Each child will have a turn at the experience in four week blocks. Your child’s class teacher will let you know when your child will join the sessions. The only thing they need is a pair of wellies and we would be very grateful if you could kindly send these in on the Wednesdays when your child needs them. Thank you.

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

Monday 25th November - Library trip

Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th December - Christmas show - 9:30

Thursday 19th December - Christmas jumper day and Christmas lunch

Friday 20th December - Last day of term - finish at 13:00

 It was so lovely to share all your child’s achievements with you at Parents Evening this week. Thank you all for coming and your ongoing support.

We hope you have a wonderful 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