This week we have all been busy builders! We’ve helped test materials for the three little pigs who had their houses blown down by the big bad wolf. After reading the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff we also tested materials for a bridge, children worked together to decide which material was the strongest. During provision children have been
Author: Ian Taylor
This week, the children had lots of fun practising their early writing skills by forming the first letter of their names on slices of toast! This exciting activity encouraged the children to recognise and form their own initials while developing their fine motor skills and letter formation in a fun, hands-on way.
This week in Phonics we have learnt the sounds ck, e, u and r. We learnt the tricky word I. The children practised saying the phoneme and then wrote the grapheme on their whiteboards. In Maths we’ve built on our subitising skills as we’ve explored the number four. We used positional language to describe patterns of 4. We’ve also listened
We have had a wonderful start to our ‘Exploring Autumn’ topic! The children have been busy exploring small world farms, enjoying farm shop and petting corner role play, and dressing up in autumn animal masks. We have embraced the season with an autumn walk and enjoyed getting creative with natural materials, including leaves, sticks, conkers and pine cones, to make
It has been a busy week with visitors! We had the Fire Service in, where we asked lots of questions, tried on their uniforms and sprayed the hose and then we had the Police visit where we did the same things! New sounds (phonemes) this week include -g, -o, -c and -k and the tricky word is. In maths we
This week we thought about our school! We had a walk around school, met different adults and labelled parts of the school on a school map. In Phonics we covered the new sounds -i, -n, -m and d. In maths we explored how many different things can be counted like sounds and actions. We used a puppet and a counting
This week we learnt the sounds -s, -a. -t and -p and even had a go at writing them! We also drew and labelled our families as our first piece of writing in our writing books. In maths we focussed on quantifying sets of objects by subitising rather than counting and matching numerals to quantities in the maths area. In
This week we have played lots of Phonics games like tap tap say the animal noise, farm animal sounds, transport sounds, rhyming games and finding objects. We enjoyed our shape hunt this week playing a preposition game, counting games and singing songs in maths. The focus this week was all about ourselves, we thought about different parts of our bodies,
This was our first week in Reception! We have learnt the rules and routines, the school values and classroom expectations. We have played phase 1 phonics games, maths games, we have read The Colour Monster and discussed how to share our feelings. We have shared likes, dislikes and hobbies and enjoyed exploring all the areas in Reception. During story time
The children have enjoyed their first days in reception and are settling in well!