Reception

This week our role play area was transformed into a shop keeper.  The children have thoroughly enjoyed taking on the role of the customer and the shop keeper!

We have been very busy in Reception this week.  The children have been exploring one more and one less.  We used frogs and lily pads and ladders to help us understand if we added or took one away.  The children understood one more very well and some are also getting good at one less.  Well done all for working hard.

We are practising writing our names, we copy our names every morning and have worked with an adult so that our letters all start from the correct place.  We have also started to make our Christmas cards and calendars.

In RE we have been making promises for Advent.  We wrote our names on a candle.  Some of these are in the photographs below.    Next week we are going to practise writing numbers and find out more about Advent and the Christmas story.

Reception went on an autumn walk this week making observations about autumn.  We collected leaves and brought them back to class.  We have started making animal pictures using the leaves.

All reception children have now been allocated a book.  It is really important to read with your child as much as possible throughout the week and to practise the flashcards too.  We also require you to write in the record, a little note to say what you have done (flashcards too) and to sign and date it too.  Please ensure this both the record and book are in your child’s book bag everyday.  Thank you for your support.

We created our pictures by using marbles and paint.  We rolled the marble, which was covered in paint, around the paper.  We used straws to blow the paint in different directions.  We added lots of glitter too, it was great fun!

In reception this week we have been practising recognising our numbers.  Don’t forget to read those numbers when you are out and about with your parents.