What an exciting but unusual week we have had. This week, Miss Banner's and Mrs Sturman's classes have followed different topics to accommodate the Pizza Express visit. Miss Banner's topic this week has been 'Pete's a Pizza' and Mrs Sturman's topic has been 'Knights'. When Mrs Sturman's class goes to Pizza Express for their visit then the classes will do the other topic.
In Mrs Sturman's class we have been making Knight's shields and helmets, and we wrote a party invitation to our friend. We have also been making lists of food we would have at our party and making Wanted posters for the Brigands from our story!
In maths we have been measuring our feet with different units of measure. We have used cubes, blocks, cars, snakes and pine cones to name but a few. We even measured out 5 metres because somebody got their 5 metre swimming award!
In Miss Banner's class we have been making pizzas out of playdough and of course, we had a fabulous trip to Pizza Express and The Forum where we made our own pizzas and took out a library book.
We have written a list of ingredients to make our pizzas and in maths, we have been extremely clever and have learned halving! We also recapped doubling too!
We were also very lucky to work with an Art teacher from Sprowston High School and have started making scales for the school's Go-Go dragon.
Friday, 24 April 2015
Friday, 17 April 2015
Week Beginning 13.04.15
This week has been Art week - the whole school has been painting different parts of the displays that will go up in the corridor. These are going to be dragon themed. The children listened to the 3 different stories that will be the focus of the displays - 'How to Catch a Dragon', 'Elephant Joe' and 'Winnie's Midnight Dragon'.
Every child has contributed something that will make up the display. The displays will be going up over the next couple of weeks so please come and have a look.
We have also started decorating our gogo dragon which will be somewhere on the drago trail over the summer.
The children have also been making the most of the lovely weather we have had this week with lots of outside play. We had a caterpillar treasure hunt to help the children's observational skills. We then did some maths based on this, thinking about counting and adding.
The children have all done some dragon writing too.
We also had the specialist dance teacher back and she is teaching the children a new dance involving wellies which will raise money for charity.
Friday, 27 March 2015
Week beginning 23.3.15
Well what a wonderful week we've had. We have been learning how to solve addition and subtraction maths word problems, applying what we already know. Miss Banner and Mrs Sturman were very impressed!!
In English we made a 'Wanted' poster for Burglar Bill who was a character in our story this week.
We hope you enjoyed coming to our Open Afternoon and seeing all the work we have done so far in Reception. We think our favourite part of the week has to be the Story Cafe and hunting around the school for different phonic sounds. Thank you to everyone who was able to come.
And finally....
HAPPY EASTER and we will see you on the 13th April.
In English we made a 'Wanted' poster for Burglar Bill who was a character in our story this week.
We hope you enjoyed coming to our Open Afternoon and seeing all the work we have done so far in Reception. We think our favourite part of the week has to be the Story Cafe and hunting around the school for different phonic sounds. Thank you to everyone who was able to come.
And finally....
HAPPY EASTER and we will see you on the 13th April.
Friday, 20 March 2015
week beginning 16.3.15
This week it has been science week so the children have been experimenting, observing and investigating! They have thoroughly enjoyed it and all of them should be able to tell you the activity that they enjoyed the most and why. We also went out to watch the solar eclipse - it was such a shame that it was so cloudy!
The children went on a colour hunt outside and then they sorted the objects that they found. Their observation skills were really good. They have watched raisins dance when they were put in cups of lemonade. The children loved seeing the raisins bobbing up the top of the cup and then bobbing up and down. They used their feet to investigate senses. They had to put their feet in buckets of different objects like dried pasta, crushed paper, cornflakes. Some of the children loved putting their feet in jelly whilst other hated it! They described how it felt putting their feet in each bucket. We put a chocolate button over a cup of warm water and watched the changes taking places as it melted. the children enjoyed eating the melting chocolate! They also listened to different sound clips and tried to think of what the sound was. we then went on a sound walk in and around school listening very carefully to what we could hear.
They've been very busy!
The children went on a colour hunt outside and then they sorted the objects that they found. Their observation skills were really good. They have watched raisins dance when they were put in cups of lemonade. The children loved seeing the raisins bobbing up the top of the cup and then bobbing up and down. They used their feet to investigate senses. They had to put their feet in buckets of different objects like dried pasta, crushed paper, cornflakes. Some of the children loved putting their feet in jelly whilst other hated it! They described how it felt putting their feet in each bucket. We put a chocolate button over a cup of warm water and watched the changes taking places as it melted. the children enjoyed eating the melting chocolate! They also listened to different sound clips and tried to think of what the sound was. we then went on a sound walk in and around school listening very carefully to what we could hear.
They've been very busy!
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Week beginning 9.3.15
This week we have been learning the art of painting and using a paintbrush correctly. We have read the book 'Sharing a Shell' and we chose a picture and we have recreated it for our display in the classroom.
I think our favourite part of the week was on Friday when it was Comic Relief. We looked fabulous with all our funny faces and we really enjoyed going to different classes and with different teachers to do some fabulous activities.
Next week we are pretending to be scientists because it is Science Week at school and we will be doing a science activity every morning.
I think our favourite part of the week was on Friday when it was Comic Relief. We looked fabulous with all our funny faces and we really enjoyed going to different classes and with different teachers to do some fabulous activities.
Next week we are pretending to be scientists because it is Science Week at school and we will be doing a science activity every morning.
Thursday, 5 March 2015
week beginning 2.3.15
This week we have been pretending to be superheroes!
We read the book 'Nat Fantastic' which is about a little boy called Nat and whenever he sneezes he turns into a superhero who saves people! The children have really enjoyed this week as Nat Fantastic has made several appearances around school sneezing away!
Nat delivered a letter asking the children to help him write the next part of his book. They had to think about what adventure Nat would go on next. We have done lots of talking about this and there were some brilliant ideas. The children then have been writing their sentences down. The children should be able to tell you all the things that makes a good writer - e.g. sounding out the words, finger spaces, full stops, capital letters, writing the letters correctly.
In maths the children have been practising their number recognition skills. They have been ordering numbers 1 - 20 and using this number line to work out one more and one less than any given number.
For world book day the children have made their own talking book so on the next open afternoon please come and have a look.
We read the book 'Nat Fantastic' which is about a little boy called Nat and whenever he sneezes he turns into a superhero who saves people! The children have really enjoyed this week as Nat Fantastic has made several appearances around school sneezing away!
Nat delivered a letter asking the children to help him write the next part of his book. They had to think about what adventure Nat would go on next. We have done lots of talking about this and there were some brilliant ideas. The children then have been writing their sentences down. The children should be able to tell you all the things that makes a good writer - e.g. sounding out the words, finger spaces, full stops, capital letters, writing the letters correctly.
In maths the children have been practising their number recognition skills. They have been ordering numbers 1 - 20 and using this number line to work out one more and one less than any given number.
For world book day the children have made their own talking book so on the next open afternoon please come and have a look.
Friday, 27 February 2015
Week beginning 23.2.15
Welcome back everyone, we hope you all had a good half-term.
This week, we have been looking at Chinese New Year and celebrations. We made pancakes and compared them to Chinese spring rolls and thought about describing how they tasted using our WOW words, delicious and scrumptious.
In our writing this week, we wrote wishes just like the Chinese do to celebrate their New Year, and instead of letting our wishes go up in large lanterns, we substituted them for helium balloons. We let them go on Friday afternoon and we were very excited about it. We have also been trying to write Chinese symbols too.
In maths we have learned about doubling. We used pancakes because doubling those can only ever be a good thing!
Next week we are pretending to be Superheroes, and of course, we have World Book Day too.
This week, we have been looking at Chinese New Year and celebrations. We made pancakes and compared them to Chinese spring rolls and thought about describing how they tasted using our WOW words, delicious and scrumptious.
In our writing this week, we wrote wishes just like the Chinese do to celebrate their New Year, and instead of letting our wishes go up in large lanterns, we substituted them for helium balloons. We let them go on Friday afternoon and we were very excited about it. We have also been trying to write Chinese symbols too.
In maths we have learned about doubling. We used pancakes because doubling those can only ever be a good thing!
Next week we are pretending to be Superheroes, and of course, we have World Book Day too.
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