Our first full week in Reception! You will have some very tired children this weekend. The children are learning the class routines well and beginning to remember some of their friend’s names.

This week, we have been learning to sit on the carpet and show good listening by looking at the person talking and taking turns to speak.

The children have been exploring the classroom by building with different resources, creating wonderful art pieces with paints and collage and demonstrating their cutting skills. The children have been dressing up and role-playing in the home corner.

Outside they have been exploring the playground, learning to climb safely on our equipment and learning to share the toys.

We have been talking about our families and who lives with us. We made a house with lollipop sticks and drew who we lived we.

On Friday, we learnt about how we are all different and unique and God love us all. The children had a go at writing their names and decorating them.

Each day, the children have been learning to make the sign of the cross. We use our right hand – head to heart, to left shoulder,  to right shoulder. Hands together. Please practise with your child at home.

The highlight of the week was meeting our reading partners. We will add photos next week. Every Friday, the Year 6 will read to their partner.

Thank you for those who have sent in family and baptism photos. If you have not, please send them in so the children can look at them on our wall.

Next week, the children will get a phonics book. Each night, please practise saying and writing the sound. Return the book every day so we can stick in the new sound. Children should bring in a bag every day so we can put their book in. Please remember to send in a water bottle with their name on.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs Carey

Our last week in Reception! What a wonderful year full of fun and learning! Your children have been a pleasure to teach. It has been great to watch them all grow in confidence and they have all developed new skills. You have been amazing parents, supporting your children in their first year at school. They are all ready for Year 1!

On Wednesday, Mrs Wilson bought in some of her pets. We met Malcolm the Millipede, Billy the tortoise and some snails and a gecko. The children were very brave at holding some of them.

Thank you for the cards and gifts.

Have a wonderful holiday.

Mrs Carey and the Early Years Team

Another busy week in Reception. It was lovely to see you at the Parent’s evenings this week.

This week our focus has been Ladybirds. We read the story The Bad Tempered Ladybird and the children wrote about what made them grouchy. They painted ladybirds and we added these to a class display. The children have been writing facts about ladybirds and making life cycles. The children have been making paper mache minibeasts. This week we painted them. We made watches to tell the time like in the story.

This week we had lot of excitement in our class when our caterpillar finally turned into beautiful butterflies. On Wednesday, we let the butterflies go.

In Maths, we have been ordering numbers to 20 and practising reading and writing numbers.

In Religion, we learnt the importance of oil. The Good Samaritan used oil to helped the injured man, the priest anoints sick people with oil, it is put on babies at Baptism and at Confirmation.

Lots of excitement in out class on Monday morning when our caterpillars transformed into butterflies. We have been observing the changes from a caterpillar to a chrysalis to a beautiful butterfly. On Friday, we let them go in our playground!

Next Week

We will be collecting reading books next week. Please practise their phonics and tricky words. We will collect reading books on your child’s reading day.

Monday– Watching Year 6 Play

Wednesday – Fun day!

Thursday – Transition Day

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Carey

Our focus this week has been spiders. We read the story Aaaarrrggghhh Spider! Then the children wrote about the things the spider did to impress the family and they wrote about their own talents. They learnt facts about spiders and wrote about them. They made webs with glitter and by threading string into small holes. Outside, they crawled through spider webs, played with spiders in the water and made playdough spiders.

We have enjoyed the lovely weather this week by paddling our feet in water to cool down and playing in the sandpit.

In Maths, we have been practising number bonds to 10. We have been singing songs and playing games to help us to remember. They have used counters and ten frames, made rainbows to show the bonds and have been writing number sentences.

In Religion, we recalled the story of The Good Samaritan. Then we talked about the virtues that the church teaches us to behave. Be fair, be brave, think before we do and wait your turn. The children made posters of one of the virtues that they follow.

We missed our Year 6 reading partners this week but Year 4 and 5 have been playing with us at lunchtime! On Friday afternoon, Year 5 came to read with the us.

Have a lovely weekend.

I look forward to seeing you next week at parents evening.

Mrs Carey