PE - Mrs Carter's class

Mrs Carter's class did dance this week in PE. They warmed up properly and then thought about moving to a steady rhythmic beat which Mrs Carter performed on various musical instruments.

Summer Term Topic

This term's topic in reception is 'Out and About'. Below you will find the 7 areas of learning with the content we hope to cover. For further information about learning experiences provided for your child please speak to a member of staff. If your child has any stories or objects related to this topic they are welcome to bring them into school for our 'Let's investigate' table.

Mathematical Development

• Counting to 100, count on from a given number, saying the next number
• Counting up to 20 objects, estimating and recording numbers
• Recognising numbers between numbers
• Using the language of direction
• Adding by counting on and combining two sets/partitioning sets
• Subtracting by counting back; removing small number of objects from a
larger set
• Comparing capacities of 2 containers
• Estimate and measure length/height
• Beginning to count in 10’s
• Recognise and order the days of the week, understand terms today,
yesterday and tomorrow
• Sort, recognise and name 3D shapes

Language, Literacy and Communication Skills

• Recounts – Writing about holiday news, activities in the day, day trips and
re-telling stories.
• Make collections of significant words linked to topic (garden, seaside,
holidays)
• Poems about summer days – replace words in repetitive poem to create new poem
• Use knowledge of rhyme to identify families of rhyming words
• Use capital letters and full stops in simple sentences.
• Jolly Phonics – Recap 42 sounds, action, letter recognition and formation.
• Identifying sounds in words, blending simple words
• Continue to introduce tricky words (reading/spelling)
• Understanding alphabetical order

Personal and Social Development, Well being and Cultural Diversity

• Understand the importance of taking turns and sharing – play simple group
games.
• Relationships - dealing with fair/unfair
• Changes- discuss how feelings change
• Sun safety – Discuss how to stay safe in the sun/ at the beach
• Sort clothes that we wear at different times of the year
• Care of garden wildlife – Countryside Code

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

• Sorting objects found in the garden into living/non-living
• Planting seeds.
• Minibeast hunt in school grounds/pond/ woods
• Compare similarities and differences between seaside/countryside
• Discuss transport for holidays. Create graphs/charts
• Investigate floating and sinking using boats made by children
• Investigating making sandcastles using variety of materials
• Compare own holidays with those of parents/grandparents
• Discuss Welsh holiday towns – create postcards

Religious Education
• Thank you prayers
• Reflection/stilling
• The Good Samaritan Story
• Visit to church – New life/ Baptism

Creative Development

• Observational drawings of minibeasts/plants
• Decorate own plant pot for planting
• Make minibeasts using clay
• Design and make own miniature garden
• Giant paper mache minibeasts
• Explore symmetry – butterfly paintings/ craft
• Look at work of Andy Goldsworthy – using nature
• Look at seascape pictures and discuss colour/texture
• Create own seascape pictures using powder paints
• Music – A variety of theme based songs covering tempo ,structure,
loud/quiet and timbre
• Dance – A day out in the country – movements to portray activities

Physical Development

• Using large equipment – bikes, scooters, trikes, climbing frames, fort
• Throwing and catching and bouncing a variety of equipment
• Hitting ball with a bat along the floor and into the air..
• Scissors skills, increasing control of paintbrush, pencil etc, Controlling
mouse, IWB pen, Beebot, tape recorders etc
• Manipulating clay/ playdough – making minibeasts
• Digging using range of garden tools

Welsh Language Development

• Communicating in Welsh through Speaking and listening, reading and writing.
Covering topics of:
• The Garden
• Minibeasts
• Holidays
• Outdoors

Some of the activities from this week

We enjoyed painting colourful pictures. Aren't they lovely?

In the area we get to choose lots of fun activities that we enjoy sharing with our friends from both classes.

And we get to choose activities in our classrooms too.

Lots of lovely stories to choose from in our book corner.

PE - Mrs Abel

We are really good at finding a space when we go into the hall for PE. 

This week Mrs Abel and Miss Button made a BIG mess in the hall!! They threw lots of pieces of PE equipment all around the hall (beanbags, quoits, skipping ropes, spots) and we had to sort them all out again into the right baskets, making sure we dodged around each other so we wouldn't hurt anyone running to the correct baskets.

We were really quick and did a fantastic job!

Then we chose one of the pieces of equipment to practise throwing, catching, rolling etc.

First week of Summer Term

On Monday we were so pleased to see each other after two weeks off and had lots of news to tell. So we turned around in two's and three's and shared each other's news. We made sure that we listened carefully to each other and gave each other time to share. Then we drew pictures and wrote sentences about what we did in the Easter holidays so that Mrs Abel and Mrs Carter knew too!