Other images of the week

Outdoors

We went out on the patio this week in our groups and made giant robots out of junk materials - it was fun thinking about how we could use the materials for all the different body parts.

LLC - 'Hot seating'

This week Mrs Abel did a 'hot seating' activity with her class. She pretended to be Goldilocks when she put a mask on and told her class all about her adventure in the woods and what she did when she found a pretty little cottage. At certain points in the story she stopped and asked the children to think of a question they could ask her.

She explained that a question starts with what, why, when, who and where. The children were encouraged to use their 'thinking thumbs' to think of a suitable question and then lift them up to tell Mrs Abel that they had thought of a good question to ask. It was quite hard to think of questions but some of the children did very well. The children are now going to have a turn at being in the hot seat, maybe as another character from the story.

Personal & Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

George the guinea pig

Miss Whittle brought her lovely pet guinea pig called George into school for us to have a cuddle. She told us all about him and how he squeaks when he wants food and the children asked Miss Whittle questions about how she looks after him.

Bronze award - housepoints

These are the boys and girls who have earned 50 or more housepoints during the Autumn term. They all received special bronze award badges today in the whole school assembly.

WELL DONE !

Creative Development

The past few weeks we have been doing lots of activities to do with the story of 'Goldilocks'. We have made models of the characters out of salt dough, they were baked in the oven and then we painted them. We have also been painting teddies on the easel

Just look at our lovely models!!

Jolly Phonics - LLC

Every day after our dinner for twenty minutes we have our new Jolly Phonics groups. Mrs Abel, Mrs Carter, Mrs Lloyd and Mrs Murphy find lots of creative ways of teaching us how to recognise and form our sounds and then how to blend them to make words. We also practise recognising and spelling our 'tricky words'.

Physical Development

When the weather is good, we make the most of it by having one of our PE sessions outside! This time both classes went out together. We are developing our gross motor skills by running, jumping, skipping, climbing, pedalling and using scooters as well as using the fort to slide and climb. Also we have to use our personal and social skills to remember to share and take turns on the bikes, scooters, climbing frames and other equipment.

Spring term overview

Spring Term Overview

This term's topic in Reception is 'Toys'. Below you will find the 7 areas of Learning with the content we hope to cover. For further information on the experiences, learning opportunities and skills being developed please speak to a member of staff.

Language, Literacy and Communication Skills

· Listening to/ respond to stories, poems, rhymes, chants, verses – books, tapes, Internet, cds. Theme related (Toys - etc)

· Listening carefully to others - Show and tell, news, talking partners, message taking, using a microphone.

· Re-telling/sequencing traditional stories,

· Theme related role-play using story language.

· Jolly Phonics – blending, identifying sounds in words, dictation, continuing Tricky Words, reading books, introduction of letter names, introduction of capital letters.

· Guided reading

· Letter formation, blending, identifying sounds in words and introducing tricky words.

· Development of sentence patterns

· Mark making using variety of equipment including IWB activities, writing patterns, classroom labels, lists, writing familiar stories- emergent writing, over/under

· Imaginative writing – emergent writing, over / under writing.

Mathematical Development

· Recognise, order, compare and count numbers to 20 and beyond.

· Estimate, count and record numbers up to 20.

· Use the language of position.

· Adding 2 or 3 to a number up to 10

· Understanding addition as a combination of 2

· Comparing lengths of 2 / 3 objects

· Compare heavy and light objects - estimate and begin to measure weights on scales using non- standard units.

· Sort 3-d shapes – recognising properties and naming.

· Recognising hours on an analogue clock – reading / setting the time to the hour,

· Use of money in Toy Shop.

· Interpret information presented in simple graphs / diagrams.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

· Consider similarities and differences between toys of today and toys of the past.

· Sort toys by different criteria – materials, colour, old and new etc.

· Sequencing toys – their own toys and toys played with by parents / grandparents.

· Explore our locality using play mat and small world.

· Create simple directions and instructions on how to move around our locality.

· Woodland winter and spring walk.

· Make simple maps of journey to our local park using photos and ordinal numbers.

· Investigate floating and sinking using toy boats

· Let’s investigate area (materials, construction)

· Investigate how toys move

Religious Education

· Festivals –Valentines Day / St Dwynwen, St David’s Day, Mother’s Day, Shrove Tuesday, Lent, Easter

· Discuss variety of religious stories

· Consider meaning of infant baptism

Physical Development

· Using large equipment – bikes, scooters, trikes, climbing frames, fort

· Rolling and kicking balls.

· Throwing, passing and bouncing balls and beanbags

· Travelling-taking weight from one part of the body to another

· Spatial awareness and relationships – using language of position.

· Describe how they look / feel after physical exercise.

· Scissors skills – cutting out letters, numbers, shapes, art and craftwork.

· Controlling mouse, IWB pen, Beebot, cd players etc.

· Manipulating clay / playdough

Personal and Social Development, Well being and Cultural Diversity

· Discuss and share special/favourite toys.

· Become aware that we are all good at different things.

· To set own goals/targets

· Develop concentration for longer periods of time.

· Sharing/taking turns -

· Cooperating- playing games as a team

· Activities to help understand and manage feelings

Creative Development

· Explore and experiment with 3D images – toy junk models

· Using ICT package to draw a variety of toys

· Modelling with clay

· Make puppets for role-play activities

· Observational drawings of toys

· Celebration craft – St. David’s Day, Mothers day, Easter

· Learn a variety of theme related songs

· Make traditional toys (puppets/peg dolls etc)

Welsh Language Development

· Communicating in Welsh through Speaking and listening, reading and writing

· Covering topics of: Greetings, numbers, toys, shops, family