We have had another unusual week this week. This week it was Mrs Sturman's class trip to Pizza Express and the library which they have been looking forward to since Miss Banner's class came back and told them all about it. Mrs Sturman's topic this week has been 'Pete's a Pizza' and Miss Banner's topic has been 'Knights'.
In Miss Banner's class we have been making Knight's shields and helmets, and we wrote a wanted poster to catch the thieves who stood the chocolate cake from the royal party. We have also been making lists of food we would have at our party and writing party invitations for the royal party in 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. the children learned how to use a ruler to measure accurately.
In Mrs Sturman'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, we wrote the steps to make a pizza and in maths, we have been extremely clever and have learned halving! We also recapped doubling too!
Friday, 15 May 2015
Friday, 8 May 2015
Week beginning 4.5.15
Well this week has been a short week as we had a sunny Bank Holiday!
We have continued with our topic of Let's Pretend and carried on with The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
In maths we have looked at addition, subtraction and division, all within the context of a word problem. eg, I had 6 cookies, but then I ate 2 of them. How many cookies do I have now?
In English, we have been writing lists about what food the tiger likes to eat and with adult support we have written what the tiger would eat if he came to our house.
In PSED we had a story, The Baked Bean Queen, and we talked about being healthy and eating healthy food.
We have continued with our topic of Let's Pretend and carried on with The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
In maths we have looked at addition, subtraction and division, all within the context of a word problem. eg, I had 6 cookies, but then I ate 2 of them. How many cookies do I have now?
In English, we have been writing lists about what food the tiger likes to eat and with adult support we have written what the tiger would eat if he came to our house.
In PSED we had a story, The Baked Bean Queen, and we talked about being healthy and eating healthy food.
Friday, 1 May 2015
Week ending 1.5.15
We have had another very busy week this week.
On Monday we spent the whole day baking things to sell at our bake sale. We made chocolate muffins, blueberry muffins, jam thumbprint biscuits and cheese pastry shapes. The children really enjoyed helping to raise money for new things for the classroom. We were all overwhelmed by the amount of baking you all did at home too! We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated baking and bought things from the bake sale. We managed to raise £170 which FOGG will match. We will ask the children over the next couple of weeks what they'd like to spend the money on.
The story this week was 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' and we have been investigating what would to the food if the Tiger hadn't eaten it and just left it all out. We made predictions and talked about food decay. The children will observe closely over the next few weeks to see what happens.
In maths we have been working on dividing equally. The children have been sharing cubes by 2,3 and 4 and have been getting on really well with this.
We have also been working on the wellie boot stomp and making the most of the good weather by learning through play outside.
Thanks to all who came to our big book share too.
We hope you have a lovely long weekend!
Friday, 24 April 2015
Week ending 24.4.15
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.
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, 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!
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