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Term 2a Week 6

This week Reception have been thinking about Chinese New Year.  We watched videos about the legend of the zodiac animals race and thought about ordinal numbers and saying who came first, second all the way to last.  Reception looked at non fiction books about Chinese New Year and looked at an atlas to find out how big the country of China is and how small our country is.  On Friday we ate some rice, noodles, stir fry and prawn crackers as an end of half term treat. 

In PSED we also thought about Valentines day, by thinking about people who we love and people who love us we also made finger print cards.

Term 2a Week 5

Reception have been comparing amounts this week and talking about more and fewer to describe amounts of objects using the phrases. 

Sam has more than Pat.

Pat has fewer than Sam.

In our English work this week we have been writing our own 'That's not my Cat' books thinking of reasons why the cat's are or aren't ours.  

Reception are doing really well in their dance work with Coach Harry - we have moved from making statues of animals to moving like different animals and matching our movements to the beat of the music, transitioning from still to moving and remembering a sequence together.  

Term 2a Week 4

We have done lots of Maths jobs this week we continued to think about parts of 5 using 5 little speckled frogs as a model and then ordered amounts and numerals 1-10.

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.