We have had a busy week this week and this children are doing really well considering it's not long until half term!
We have been reading lots of stories and responding to questions, joining in with repeated sections and guessing what might happen next.
We have been playing under the canopy because the weather hasn't been great this week but some of the children have braved the rain! The children have also been doing lots of learning through play in the classroom too.
We had a harpist in school and the children went to listen to her play and they learnt about harps.
We also went to assembly this week with the rest of the school and the Reception children behaved really well!
It's International week next week and the children found out today which country we are looking at - ask them to see f they remember...
Have a good weekend!
Friday, 16 October 2015
Monday, 12 October 2015
Week ending 9.10.15
This week we have had canopy play introduced. This is where we can play under the canopy in all weathers! We select a peg and attach it to our coats then we can go outside under the canopy for our learning.
Most of the week has been spent making our Christmas cards ready for Monday's exhibition. We hope you like them!
Next week we are going to start going into assembly!!
Most of the week has been spent making our Christmas cards ready for Monday's exhibition. We hope you like them!
Next week we are going to start going into assembly!!
Friday, 2 October 2015
Week ending 2.10.15
We are amazed at how many people have looked at the blog already - thanks for reading! We hope your find it useful.
The children seem to be all settled in now, which is great to see.
This week we have been completing our baseline assessments of the children by working with one child at a time and checking their maths ability. While Lisa and Liz have been doing this Jane, Sandra, Olivia, Sue, Jay, Margaret and Jaqci have been observing the children playing both outside and in the classroom. This has allowed us to see what the children are able to do in other areas of the curriculum. The children have loved being out in the sunshine playing. They have been getting messy in the gloop and with the chalks, showing us how well they can balance, jump, catch and throw. They have had great fun role playing with different props such as a till, shopping trolley, dolls and the dressing up clothes. They have been getting to know each other better by sharing the resources and talking. They have been climbing trees and digging in the garden. They have been hunting for treasure in the pirate ship. We've been quite busy!
The children have been having chill out time in the afternoon for about 10 minutes as some of the children seem to still be a little tired after all the activities!
We're going to try and be brave next week and go to assembly!
The children seem to be all settled in now, which is great to see.
This week we have been completing our baseline assessments of the children by working with one child at a time and checking their maths ability. While Lisa and Liz have been doing this Jane, Sandra, Olivia, Sue, Jay, Margaret and Jaqci have been observing the children playing both outside and in the classroom. This has allowed us to see what the children are able to do in other areas of the curriculum. The children have loved being out in the sunshine playing. They have been getting messy in the gloop and with the chalks, showing us how well they can balance, jump, catch and throw. They have had great fun role playing with different props such as a till, shopping trolley, dolls and the dressing up clothes. They have been getting to know each other better by sharing the resources and talking. They have been climbing trees and digging in the garden. They have been hunting for treasure in the pirate ship. We've been quite busy!
The children have been having chill out time in the afternoon for about 10 minutes as some of the children seem to still be a little tired after all the activities!
We're going to try and be brave next week and go to assembly!
Friday, 25 September 2015
Week Ending 25.09.15
Well we've all made it through the first 2 weeks of school; that's the children, us the staff and you the parents. There were tears from the children and tears from the parents, and we hope the transition to school was as painless as possible. If you can think of anything that we omitted to tell you or of anything that you feel may make this process easier for next year, please mention it to Miss Banner or Mrs Sturman so we can make any changes for next year's parents.
On to the most important stuff and that is how have the children settled????
Overall, very well!! They've coped with a mountain of information, new rules, routines, environments, new children, different adults and of course the dreaded lunches! They have eaten really well too which is a good sign!
We have spent the last 2 weeks, introducing them to the routines of school life and more importantly, to each other! We think they had enjoyed dough disco (rolling playdough to music to strengthen fingers for better pencil control) the most until we did squiggle today! (Squiggle is using the movements for writing but incorporating them into overly large movements to begin with and using flipper-flappers (2 squares of material that they hold)). To say they loved it would be an understatement! We have also completed the covers of our topic books with 3 handprints.
We think they've had a great start to school and hope you do too.
Quick reminder: Please remember to name their snack if they bring one as other children may pick it up and we are then unsure who's snack is who's.
On to the most important stuff and that is how have the children settled????
Overall, very well!! They've coped with a mountain of information, new rules, routines, environments, new children, different adults and of course the dreaded lunches! They have eaten really well too which is a good sign!
We have spent the last 2 weeks, introducing them to the routines of school life and more importantly, to each other! We think they had enjoyed dough disco (rolling playdough to music to strengthen fingers for better pencil control) the most until we did squiggle today! (Squiggle is using the movements for writing but incorporating them into overly large movements to begin with and using flipper-flappers (2 squares of material that they hold)). To say they loved it would be an understatement! We have also completed the covers of our topic books with 3 handprints.
We think they've had a great start to school and hope you do too.
Quick reminder: Please remember to name their snack if they bring one as other children may pick it up and we are then unsure who's snack is who's.
Friday, 17 July 2015
Week ending 17.7.15
Well, what an absolutely fantastic week we have had this week for SPORTS WEEK.
We have learned how to be cheerleaders and then performed our routine in front of you all before Sports Day. We have learned Kwik Cricket although we're not quite at 'The Ashes' standard just yet! We have learned how to play Table Tennis, although we didn't worry about the rules, just how to control the bat and actually hit the ball. Let's just say there were a lot of ping pong balls on the loose!!!!!
On Tuesday, we had the extremely high climb to the almost vertical slide, and many of us confronted our fears, battled through them and had a real sense of achievement of completing it all. Some of us had a really good try and some of us have said we will try next time if it comes to Garrick Green again. We also had a turn on a climbing wall and played team games and then did multi-skills too. No wonder we've been tired out each day!
The rest of the week we have practiced the skills needed for Sports Day and we have loved it all. We really enjoyed our first Sports Day especially the straight running races. We really liked it when our mum's and dad's raced too!!
Unfortunately, this is our last blog post of our Reception year and Miss Banner and Mrs Sturman would like to say a huge thank you for the support you have given your child at home. We would also like to say how proud we are of everything the children have achieved this year and hope that you agree that they have an excellent foundation upon which to continue their education.
We would like to wish you all a happy summer holiday and we're off to raise a LARGE glass of something cold to toast what a fantastic year we've had!!
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We have learned how to be cheerleaders and then performed our routine in front of you all before Sports Day. We have learned Kwik Cricket although we're not quite at 'The Ashes' standard just yet! We have learned how to play Table Tennis, although we didn't worry about the rules, just how to control the bat and actually hit the ball. Let's just say there were a lot of ping pong balls on the loose!!!!!
On Tuesday, we had the extremely high climb to the almost vertical slide, and many of us confronted our fears, battled through them and had a real sense of achievement of completing it all. Some of us had a really good try and some of us have said we will try next time if it comes to Garrick Green again. We also had a turn on a climbing wall and played team games and then did multi-skills too. No wonder we've been tired out each day!
The rest of the week we have practiced the skills needed for Sports Day and we have loved it all. We really enjoyed our first Sports Day especially the straight running races. We really liked it when our mum's and dad's raced too!!
Unfortunately, this is our last blog post of our Reception year and Miss Banner and Mrs Sturman would like to say a huge thank you for the support you have given your child at home. We would also like to say how proud we are of everything the children have achieved this year and hope that you agree that they have an excellent foundation upon which to continue their education.
We would like to wish you all a happy summer holiday and we're off to raise a LARGE glass of something cold to toast what a fantastic year we've had!!
xxxxxxxxxxx
Friday, 19 June 2015
Week ending 19.6.15
This week the main focus has been looking at artwork in detail.
The painting we have been looking at is The Bathers at Asnières by George's Seurat.
We read the story Katie and the Bathers as an introduction and then we looked in detail at the painting and had lots of discussions about what was happening, who the people were. We explored the painting through our senses thinking about if we were in the painting what would we see, hear, feel, smell and taste.
The children's writing task for the week was the look at the little boy with cupped hand shouting in the painting. They had to think about what the little boy might be saying and write it in a speech bubble.
We looked at the pointillism technique and the children really enjoyed painting their own pictures in the style of pointillism.
We did mental maths work on doubling and halving and had a couple of games of double and halves bingo!
At the end of the week was the trip to The National Gallery in London. The children were fantastically behaved all day and really enjoyed the outing. We had a session with one of the gallery staff who took us on a magic carpet ride into a painting. Then we did our own tour of the gallery stopping and looking at lots of different paintings. The children couldn't wait to see the real Bathers painting. They were quite surprised how big it was! We looked at Monet's Waterlily paintings, Surprised by Henri Rousseau, Whistle jacket by George Stubbs, The Haywain by John Constable, The Fighting Temeraire by Joseph Turner and quite a few others! The children had excellent discussions about what they thought they could see. They were brilliant at using their imaginations and pretending to step into the paintings. A good day out was had by all!
The painting we have been looking at is The Bathers at Asnières by George's Seurat.
We read the story Katie and the Bathers as an introduction and then we looked in detail at the painting and had lots of discussions about what was happening, who the people were. We explored the painting through our senses thinking about if we were in the painting what would we see, hear, feel, smell and taste.
The children's writing task for the week was the look at the little boy with cupped hand shouting in the painting. They had to think about what the little boy might be saying and write it in a speech bubble.
We looked at the pointillism technique and the children really enjoyed painting their own pictures in the style of pointillism.
We did mental maths work on doubling and halving and had a couple of games of double and halves bingo!
At the end of the week was the trip to The National Gallery in London. The children were fantastically behaved all day and really enjoyed the outing. We had a session with one of the gallery staff who took us on a magic carpet ride into a painting. Then we did our own tour of the gallery stopping and looking at lots of different paintings. The children couldn't wait to see the real Bathers painting. They were quite surprised how big it was! We looked at Monet's Waterlily paintings, Surprised by Henri Rousseau, Whistle jacket by George Stubbs, The Haywain by John Constable, The Fighting Temeraire by Joseph Turner and quite a few others! The children had excellent discussions about what they thought they could see. They were brilliant at using their imaginations and pretending to step into the paintings. A good day out was had by all!
Friday, 12 June 2015
Week beginning 8.6.15
We have had a lovely week and it's not just because of the sunshine!
This week we have been finishing off our topic of The Hungary Caterpillar. We are still observing our caterpillars and patiently waiting for signs that they are becoming a chrysallis. They have doubled in size and we can see how much fatter they are getting by the end of each day.
In writing we have been looking at what we could do as a baby and what we can do now. Also we have been describing the caterpillars and trying to write a diary entry.
In maths we have made a graph on the computer about our favourite fruits.
Next week we are pretending to be artists!
This week we have been finishing off our topic of The Hungary Caterpillar. We are still observing our caterpillars and patiently waiting for signs that they are becoming a chrysallis. They have doubled in size and we can see how much fatter they are getting by the end of each day.
In writing we have been looking at what we could do as a baby and what we can do now. Also we have been describing the caterpillars and trying to write a diary entry.
In maths we have made a graph on the computer about our favourite fruits.
Next week we are pretending to be artists!
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