This week in the classroom
Friday 13th December
Reception class have continued learning about Christmas and have enjoyed more Christmas themed activities.
In phonics sessions, we have again focused on revising the sounds and words we have learned this half term. We have focused more on practising blending too. The sounds for this half term can be found on Youtube here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDu3JAjf-U0
In English, we read a story called 'The Story Of Christmas'. Children wrote speech bubbles for the angel speaking to Mary, applying our phonics knowledge to try and spell words. In maths, we have developed our knowledge of pattern where the repeating part in ABC, ABC, ABC.
In the classroom continuous provision, the children enjoyed many of the usual classroom resources. In addition to that, children enjoyed maths activities such as continuing a pattern or finding 6 objects. In the creative area, they made sparkly snowflakes, paper trees and much more! We learned about the nativity story. The home corner has continued as Mrs Claus kitchen, where children have pretended to bake cookies. Children had the opportunity to decorate Christmas jumpers with shapes, beads and tinsel. In construction, children enjoyed using the large cars on roads made of masking tape.
Our outsude area has been out of use, so instead we have used the main playground, climbing equipment, field and woods to play outside everyday.
On Thursday, the children enjoyed performing their songs in the Christmas play. Reception showed off their lovely singing and cool dance moves when they shared Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with the school. Well done Reception class!
Friday 6th December
Reception class have learned a lot this week and have enjoyed a number of Christmas activities too!
In phonics sessions, we have focused on revising the sounds and words we have learned this half term. We have focused more on practising blending too.
In English, we read a story called 'Santa's Special Letter. Children wrote Christmas lists and wrote a letter to Santa too, applying our phonics knowledge to try and spell words. In maths, we continued our focus on counting up to 10, using objects, fingers and flash cards.
In the classroom continuous provision, the children enjoyed many of the usual classroom resources. In addition to that, children enjoyed playing a maths game where they had to match diferent numbers of objects. In the creative area, they made lovely Christmas trees, tree paintings and much more! We learned about Christmas and why we celebrate every year. We also discussed times we have been brave and times we have worked as a team. The home corner has become Mrs Claus kitchen, where children have pretended to bake cookies. Children also decorated real and felt trees and made play dough gingerbread people.
Our outsude area has been out of use, so instead we have used the main playground, field and woods to play outside everyday.
On Friday, we enjoyed a treat when we watched a live pantomime in the school hall! The children loved joining in singing, shouting and clapping along.
The children have had a lovely week!