Reception - Spring 1 - Week 6
Date: 9th Feb 2022 @ 9:14pm
We cannot believe how time has flown this half term!
This week has been all about love as we explored Valentine’s Day. The children have shown incredible independent writing as well as wonderful creativity making Valentine cards for the special people in their lives. We have seen cards exchanged between friends as well as them being taken home for family members with the children showing great pride in their work!
We have been learning about some common garden and coastal birds as we took part in the Big Schools’ Birdwatch for the RSPB. The children have spotted birds coming and going from our outdoor area as well as looking and listening for them during their time at Forest School. To mark Internet Safety Day on Tuesday, we took the opportunity to research the different gulls we may see using the internet. We talked about staying safe online, remembering to always ask an adult before using the internet. If you would like any further information about this, please see our Online Safety section of the school website or click here.
In our maths learning this week we have been considering one more and different representations of the numbers 6, 7 and 8. We have used dominoes to help us create number sentences and enjoyed a game of Kim’s game to remember the missing object and work out how many objects remain. The children were great at recalling the missing object and excelled at the challenge!
During the children’s time outdoors, they began to create their very own ‘Drive through Ice Cream parlour’. This has evolved over the week and by Friday was fully stocked with menus, ice cream containers, money and sprinkles! It has been wonderful to see the children working together and having such fun with their ideas.
Love Reading have launched their 'top book picks' for this month. More, highly-rated children's reads, from a variety of authors for different age ranges, are shared with us all to enjoy.
I have also updated the Reception virtual classroom, which is attached below.
We hope you all have a lovely half term break and look forward to seeing you soon.
Mrs Mallett
Reception reminders
Monday 21st February – School reopens
Wednesday 23rd February – WOW service 2pm at St Peter’s Church
Thursday 3rd March – World Book Day