Reception Team: Mrs S Bevin and Mrs J Molloy (Class Teacher): Blog items
Date: 13th Jan 2022 @ 9:33pm
It has been a fantastic week in Reception!
We began our new RE topic relating to Stories that Jesus heard, introducing the children to the Old Testament. We read Daniel and the Lions and the children remembered times that they had felt brave, documenting them in our floor book.
The children continue to enjoy our Space topic, spending time in our space station and using our small world Rocket to create wonderful stories and adventures. We have even made our own giant rocket where many of the children participated in making it ‘The best rocket we have ever seen’.
This week we took time out to consider friendships and our reception and school family. We made a class friendship web, where the children spoke about each other and what makes us a great friend and member of the class. The children showed how thoughtful and caring they are and made us all feel very lucky to have such a loving group of children. They were then inspired to create cards and pictures for each other, showing fantastic independent writing skills.
In our maths learning this week we have been so impressed with the children’s understanding of creating equal groups and the use of 5 frames. They have been enthusiastic to answer questions and confident to explain their reasoning and thoughts.
Our literacy book, The Journey Home, introduced us to the main character, Hattie Peck, a hen who loves all eggs. We learned about all the different animals that lay eggs, of which there were some surprises, and the children created their own list of favourites.
This week has seen the start of our whole class reading. The children were keen to read the new books and over the week showed incredible progress as well as enjoying reading with another child, supporting and helping each other. On Friday afternoon we spent time with our buddies sharing a story. The children really enjoy seeing their buddies and it was a fantastic way to end the week.
Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Reception Reminders
Tuesday 18th January – Sibling School Photographs
Wednesday 19th January – Dance class. Children to wear trainers to school as well as Friday.
Monday 24th and Wednesday 26th January – Parent Teacher meetings
Wednesday 26th January – WOW Service at St Peter’s Church 2pm
Date: 6th Jan 2022 @ 6:08pm
We were so happy to welcome the children back into school this week. We have enjoyed watching them catch up with their friends, refamiliarise themselves with the classroom and hear all about their magical Christmas memories. It sounds like they all had a fantastic time!
To introduce our new literacy book, ‘The Journey Home’, the children created a map of a familiar journey. They did some incredible written work and we are excited to see what journeys we will go on!
The children were incredibly excited to discover our new topic, ‘Space’. We have our very own Space Station within the classroom which has already seen some fantastic space exploration stories and ideas, as well as ‘Spacedough’, outer space drawings and our very own ‘Reception Space Adventure Log Book’. It is wonderful to see the children so excited to learn more.
The weather may have been cold and wet but we have loved the opportunity to be outdoors, practising our ball skills, climbing and balancing as well as noticing changes in our outdoor area such as the green shoots on the daffodil bulbs. The children were fascinated to see their breath and pretended to be little dragons!
If you would like any further details regarding what we will be learning in Reception, the information is included in our year group overview, which can be found here, https://www.trinitystpeters.org/page/year-group-overviews/48700
Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Reception Reminders
Wednesday 12th January – Dance class. Children to wear trainers to school as well as Friday.
Wednesday 26th January – WOW Service at St Peters Church, 2pm.