Spring Term

Term 2b Week 4

Continuing on our bear hunt adventue we have been looking at different sources of factual information about bears, we have searched for pictures on the internet, looked at non-fiction books and watched videos on Youtube, we talked about what would make a good source and why a source of information might not be good.  We have also turned our reading corner into a bear cave.  In Maths we have been working on addition looking at the = and + symbols and rehearsing stating number sentences in different orders (both 6+2=8 and 8=6+2), using dice to generate numbers for us to count all together.

Term 2b Week 3

Reception has been learning the 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' story this week, doing actions, reciting repeated refrains, ordering the settings, drawing story maps and suggesting other things we could hunt and other settings we could go through. 

Term 2b Week 2

The children really enjoyed sharing their books on World Book Day.  They were really keen to talk about their favourite story, videos below the pictures.

Term 2b Week 1

What a busy first week back, Reception have really entered into the spirit of art week, drawing, painting, printing and sculpting, talking our inspiration from Paul Cezanne's 'Still Life with Apples and Oranges'.  We have also had our first Gymnastics lesson, this half term we will be having PE lessons on a Wednesday morning, the children were learning about different ways of traveling around our hall and over our equipment. It has also been pancake day and we talked about why Christians celebrate pancake day, in preparation for Lent, using up all of the rich food and looking forward to Easter, whilst we made and ate yummy pancakes.

Term 2a Week 5

We love reading in reception and Miss Morgan has made two videos to show parents how we do one to one reading sessions in Reception, the sessions usually last 10 -15 minutes but these videos have been shortened a little.  

Term 2a Week 4

We have been learning the names and properties of 3D shapes and have enjoyed singing along to these 2 songs on YouTube.

Term 2a Week 3

Reception have been learning about 3D shapes and Chinese New Year, on our come and see morning we made paper dragon puppets, went on a shape hunt, sorted shapes and built towers using particular 3D shapes.  Mrs Newton is very excited about all the Bingo Homework that the children have been doing at home and bringing in to share with us all.

Term 2a week 2

Reception have continued to think about teen numbers this week, looking at different ways to represent them using Numicon and Unifix cubes.  We are working hard to remember that the numeral 1 in a teen number means 10 and that to make a teen number with two 10 towers or Numicon we need a ten and then the unit number.  Our Rhyming work is going well with lots of children able to rhyme a word with their own names and an increasing number able to spot rhyme in our songs and stories.  Oi Frog! is our book for this half term and we have been using phonic knowledge to write a character description.

Term 2a Week 1

Reception were very excited to come back to school and have settled back into our routines well.  We all enjoyed talking about our holidays, seeing our friends again, going to the pantomime, learning the green cross code with the Road Safety lady, learning how to represent teen numbers and beginning our new topic on rhyming.