Knowledge and understanding

Deciding what we want to learn about our topic this term

'Our wonderful world of colour'

Autumn colours

Small world hospital set.

Small world fire station set.

Personal and social development, wellbeing and cultural diversity

Team work. Working together to join all of the popoid pieces together.

Helping each other in Reception!

Learning to share and take turns.

Playing together in the home corner nicely.

We talked about our feelings and played a game of 'mood faces' with Miss Allen.

Physical Development

We had to fill the coloured containers as quickly as possible.

We are learning to say the colours in Welsh.

P.E. in the hall to burn off some off those yummy cakes we have been baking!

Building a bridge to cross the river in the story we have been reading.

'We're going on a Bear Hunt'

Creative Development

We played our instruments so loud that the new roof very nearly blew off!

We played them softly as well to make sure Mr Roberts didn't get a headache.

Walt was our conductor. He thinks we are very good.

We drew rainbows on the plasma screens and in the I.C.T. suite.

Making Autumn leaves for our classroom displays.

Language, literacy and communication

Letter formation with shaving foam.

Sharing favourite stories with friends.

Quiet time in the book corner.

We made lists of ingredients for our cakes.

Playing together and acting out stories with small world toys.

The messier the better!

Mathematical Development

Number hunting was messy but great fun!

Sequencing the number ducks 1-20

We weighed our ingredients to make delicious fairy cakes

Counting smarties to decorate our cakes

Here are some of the other things we have been doing this week in Reception. As you can see we have been very busy again!

Creative Development - name cards

We've been practising to write our names! In the creative area we wrote our names and then decorated the border with lots of things like glitter, sticky paper, pipe cleaners and made them look really pretty. We will be bringing them home next week when they are all dry and then we can hang them up somewhere (maybe on our bedroom door)

Language, Literacy & Communication

We've started learning our 'Jolly phonics' - hurray. We started by watching a Dvd which introduced us to the character 'Inky mouse' and he taught us the first three sounds 's', 'a', 't'. Then Mrs Abel showed us the actions for the sounds and how we form them. We used our magic fingers to practise. Jolly Phonics is going to be great fun and we'll be learning our sounds in no time!

Mathematical Development

This week we have been seeing which numbers we recognise from 0 to 10. Then we have cut and stuck them in the correct order in our books. Some of us know the numbers to 5, some of us needed a little help to order correctly and some of us did it all by ourselves!

Physical Development

This week we have been practising finding a space. This means sitting/standing where we are not touching anyone or anything. This keeps us safe and allows us to practise our skills without hurting ourselves or anyone else. We did it really well and Mrs Abel was proud of us.

Then we played the 'traffic lights' game. We pretended to be cars and when Mrs Abel shouted out 'green' we ran around the room being careful not to bump into each other, when 'amber' was called we had to change to walking and finally 'red' meant we had to stop and freeze as quickly as possible.