Reception's weekly newsletter 13.11.26

t’s been another week of celebrations as we have celebrated children in need, remembrance day and world kindness day.

In literacy this week you have been super busy continuing your journey of Gordon’s story. This week we have started to write small, simple sentences. We learnt that a sentence needs a capital letter to start with and a full stop to end with. Your sentences this week have all been based on our story. We are so excited to finish this story next week to see where the hot air balloon takes Gordon and his circus friends. I have so proud of your writing skills this week Reception!

In phonics this week you have been continuing to learn your phonics sounds and read them in words. You have also learnt to write your phonics sounds thinking about the correct way to form them. You always finish your phonics lessons with some spellings and you are getting so good at using your segmenting skills to help you to spell words phonetically. Myself, Mrs Lloyd and Miss Dunn are just so pleased with how much progress you are already making in phonics.

In our communication and language you learnt the poem ‘whizz around the playground’. We thought about how much we loved using the scooters in school to whizz around our garden. You added actions to your poem.

In maths, you have been working on counting and ordering numbers to 10. Across the week you have made number lines, matched items to your numbers and been on number hunts. It’s lovely to see so many of you count and recognise numbers beyond 10 too.

In our physical development, we have been continuing our journey with Bertie the Bunny. This week we got introduced to a new character which was called ‘Wesley the Weasel’. We found out that Wesley was very sneaky and would spoil all of the games. We played different games in PE and one of you were able to become Wesley in your groups. You would see if you could tackle the ball off different children or steal different balls. Your throwing and catching skills are improving so much.

In our understanding the world, we learnt about remembrance the day and we listened to a lovely story all about the history of poppies and why use them to remember or support our armed forces. You made your own poppy wreath which we took out on the playground for our two minute silence.

In RE we continued to look at harvest. We thought about why Christians thank God at harvest time. We learnt that Christians believe God made the soil, rain and sun to help make the crops grow. We learnt what Christians do at church during harvest and how they decorate the church and gather food for others.

In our expressive arts and design, we have been very excited about learning our nativity songs. We will continue to learn these each week.You have used printing skills to create poppy wreaths by printing with half an apple.You have also been continuing your learning around Piet Mondrian with Mrs Pointon.

In buddy time this week we spent some time with our buddies in our outdoor environment. We really enjoy this special time with them!

As well as all of this week have been creating poppies out of play dough, exploring our weather changes in our outdoor environment and making leaf soups in the mud kitchen! We are really enjoying seeing all of the ice form as we leave water around our outdoor environment it’s led to lots of great scientific discussion.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend,

Miss Haynes