Spring

Term 2a Week 3

Our Dance lessons with Coach Harry are going really well, we are pretending to be different types of animals thinking about their movements and working on moving to the beat.

In our Maths work we have been thinking about parts of 5 (partitioning) looking for other numbers inside of 5 and practising saying

'5 is made of 1 and 4, 1 and 4 makes 5' or

'5 is made of 2 and 3, 2 and 3 make 5' or even

'5 is made of 2 and 2 and 1, 2 and 2 and 1 makes 5'.

We have been writing our own rhyming rules books, where animals have to sit on objects that rhyme with them - bats sit on cats, ducks sit on trucks, snails sit on nails.

Term 2a Week 2

Continuing with our rhyming theme we have been reading and watching the Oi series of books, Oi Frog! Oi Dog! and Oi Cat!  If you want to watch them again her are the youtube links. 

We played a game of matching pairs with rhyming words from the Oi Frog! book - Cat /Mat, Parrot/Carrot, Puffin/Muffin. 

Reception enjoyed working outside and investigating the ice at the end of our week. 

Term 2a Week 1

Reception have come back after the Christmas break looking really grown up, they have settled back into the rhythm of our school and class really well, remembering lots of our routines and classroom expectations. 

This term we have a student teacher in our class, Miss Hall will be working in Reception and finding about how we learn and work together at Newburn Manor.  We are also having one PE session a week with a coach from the Newcastle PE and Sports service, Harry is teaching us about dance, movement, and space and will be with us until February half term.

Our focus for this half term is 'What makes a rhyming word?' and we will be looking at the Oi Frog series of books to help us think about this topic.  This week the children worked in groups to identify and write rhyming words.  We also got Lexia logins and are having a go at this in class before logins will be sent home so you can work on your phonics skills using Lexia at home too.