Reception and Nursery Bedtime Stories

                                    

Campfire's Burning!

One of Reception's experiences for the year is to sing songs around a campfire. Of course you cannot have a campfire without some toasted marshmallows! Before heading down on Thursday the Reception children discussed how to stay safe around the campfire. The children followed the rules and listened closely to instructions. It was a little windy so we all experienced smoke in the eyes as we toasted our marshmallows. The marshmallows were a hit with most of the children and there was definitely some sticky fingers and faces afterwards. The children enjoyed singing a few of their favourite songs including Tiny Tim, We went to the Animal Fair and of course Campfire's Burning! 

Campfire's burning, campfire's burning. 

Draw nearer, draw nearer. 

In the glowing, in the glowing. 

Come sing and be merry. 

"The smoke is stinging my eyes, it keeps blowing this way." Tele 

"Can we have another one please?" Isaac

"It's really sticky!" Varvara 

Reception Star Readers!

We are very proud of all our Star Readers this week!

Congratulations to Isaac Gilmour-Woodstock and Lucas Kalmakrian from Apple class, who received their Bookmark Reading Award for reading 10 books. Harry Cole has now received his Bronze award for reading 25 books, great job!

Fom Alder Class congratulations to  from Leonard Bonsu Amanfo, who received his Bookmark Reading Award for reading 10 books and to Vibha Sivakumar for receiving her Silver award for reading 50 books!

Congratulations to  Thomas Cen and Zuriel Stephens-Myers  for being awarded their book marks for reading ten books.  

Well done to all our fantastic Reception Star Readers.

Creating a love of reading in children is potentially one of the most powerful ways of improving academic standards in school. Please record your home reading in your Child's Reading Record. Please record all of your home reading including your Child's school storybook, green and red words which you have been practising together, RWI books and any additional books you have shared together. All of these reading sessions go towards the School Reading Awards.

                               

Reception Newsletter 27.11.17

Term: Autumn 2                      Date: 27.11.17

Dear Parents,

This week we will be reading the text ‘Whatever next’  and carrying various tasks such as junk modelling, circle time and list writing.

Thank you for all your support with the non uniform day, we collected an amazing array of prizes for the tombola at Christmas. All funds raised from this event will end up being invested back into the school.

We are collecting washed milk bottle lids for our wood work area, we would appreciate your support with this matter.  Please put them in the box in the outside area.

       The learning objectives:

Personal, Social and Emotional

Shows some understanding that good practices with regard to exercise, eating, sleeping and hygiene can contribute to good health.

Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities

Can usually adapt behaviour to different events, social situations and changes in routine.

Communication and Language

Can retell a simple story..

Builds up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences.

Responds to simple instructions.

Literacy

Shows interest in illustrations and print in books  and print in the environment.

Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.

Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.

Physical Development:

Uses one handed tools.

Can usually manage washing and drying hands.

Runs skillfully and negotiates spaces successfully.

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Mathematics

Uses the language of ‘more’ and ‘less’ to compare two groups of object.

Shows an interest in shape and space by playing with shapes or making arrangements with objects.

Shows interest in shapes in the environment.

Understanding The World

Shows an interests in different ways of life.

Can talk about some of the things they have observed.

Talks about why things happen and how things work.

Expressive arts and design

Uses construction material pieces to build and balance.

Explores colour and how colour can be changed.

Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things.

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     Messages.

      Learning Challenge

      Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.

      The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, famous person,  illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class.  The table below demonstrates some guidance.

       Poem/Song to learn: Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer

       Five little Men in a flying saucer.                                                                  Person: Mr Maker

       Flew around the world one day,

They looked left and right,

But they didn’t like the sight,

So one man flew away.

Zoom!                                                                               Composer/Piece of music:Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
1.    Learn it off by heart. 2.    Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme. 3.    Find out about stars.	Listen to the piece of music. Create some movements to the music. Draw an illustration to represent their feelings.	1. 1.Draw a portrait of the person. 2.   Find out facts about the person. 3. Watch the person in action.

    Dates for your diary:

Friday 8th December - Christmas Story Evening 5.00pm

Tuesday 12th December - EYFS Nativity 10.30 am or 2.15pm

Friday 15th December -  Christmas Jumper Day

Friday 5th January - Reception Maths Party - 9am


The school will be closed on the following days for pupils:

INSET Days: Polling Day:

9th February 3rd May

25th May

29th June

If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk

       Kind regards

       The Reception Team

Alder's Learning Challenges!

Alder class have been busy at home again this week, completing a variety of Learning Challenges. The children did a fantastic job of presenting their work to the class and telling us all about what they have been learning.

Lorena made a beautiful picture from the song '5 Little Men in a Flying Saucer'. She was able to name some of the materials she used to create her picture and sang us a line from the song!

Anish has been learning all about Neil Armstrong. He even made his own rocket!
"He flew up to the moon and left his flag there. His ship was called Apollo."

Reception are Cooking!

Last week Reception were learning all about Diwali, this is one of the different celebrations we will be looking at as part of Understanding The World.

We discussed that during celebrations families will often share and eat special foods. During Diwali one of these foods is often Samosas, so we decided to make and try our own!

The children had the opportunity to look at and smell the different spices that go into samosas. Folding the Samosas into the traditional triangle shape was difficult, but the children did a fantastic job and showed their resilience by not giving up!

"I can taste the spice in mine" Nicholas 

"These are delicious, can have another one please?" Jayden

Alder Learning Challenges

Alder class have been busy at home completing a variety of Learning Challenges. The children have enjoyed sharing their work, sharing the facts they have found out and singing to the class too!

Anish was very excited to show the class all the learning he had done at home about the four seasons. "This is Winter, it snows in Winter and you can build a snowman!" "In the Autumn picture I used real leaves, because all the leaves fall down from the trees."

Reception Trail Adventures

Reception have been completing obstacles on the Adventure Trail this week in PE. Showing their determination and resilience when completing all of the tasks. From climbing and jumping off the wooden beams, running through tyres, navigating through tunnels and the sheer determination to run up the steep slopes. Everyone had a fantastic time and listened carefully to the instructions and followed all the directions. The children showed reciprocity through working together, helping, supporting and praising each other.

"I'm going in and out, in and out, in and out." Hussam

"Whoah, this is fun." Danny

 The obstacles provided opportunities for the children to be active and develop their coordination, control and movements. Being physically active not only strengthens muscles and develops the heart and lungs, it also supports the development of the brain.

Reception Star Readers!

There were lots of Star Readers across Reception this week.

Congratulations to Noah Livingstone, Ellie-Jane Putney, Lottie Eve and Tele Onabajo from Apple class, who received their Bookmark Reading Award for reading 10 books. Summer Carruth has now received her Bronze award for reading over 25 books, great job!

Congratulations to Kyle Mitson, Anish Kokulan, Mackenzie Hanmore, Shivangi Zala, Preston McGuire and Vibha Sivakumar from Alder class, who received their Bookmark Reading Award for reading 10 books. Congratulations to Luke Vigors, Nicholas Adeniyi, Jayden Awuah and Vibha Sivakumar from Alder all of whom received their Bronze Award for reading 25 books. And finally to Luke Vigors for receiving his Silver award for reading 50 books!

Congratulations to Maggie Maguire, Nevaeh Gibb-Clark, Maya-Rose Cripps, Ehan Mollah and Praharsh Polisani for being awarded their book marks for reading ten books.  Also a big well done to Charlie Grant for receiving his bronze award for reading 25 books.

Well done to all our fantastic Reception Star Readers.

Creating a love of reading in children is potentially one of the most powerful ways of improving academic standards in school. Please record your home reading in your Child's Reading Record. Please record all of your home reading including your Child's school storybook, green and red words which you have been practising together, RWI books and any additional books you have shared together. All of these reading sessions go towards the School Reading Awards.

                                               

                                   

Reception go shopping!

This week in Maths the children will be focussing on using everyday language related to money. What better way to practice than building our own shop in the role play area! This has allowed the children to develop their language through their play. The children have been highly engaged and the shop has been very busy today and the queues long. The children have been accurately counting out one pennies to pay for their shopping and taking turns as the shop keeper. Some children even began to add to prices together finding the total. The shop will re-open at 8.30am tomorrow, see you there! 

"Welcome to Tesco, come and buy something." Nicholas 
"That will be three pence please." Zoe 
"Thank you for coming, see you soon." Starla

Reception Newsletter 20.11.17

Term: Autumn 2                      Date: 20.11.17

Dear Parents,

Last week the children had great fun finding out about Diwali, we like to explore various cultures and religions to develop the children's knowledge and understanding of the world.  This week we will be reading the text Elmer and carrying out related tasks.

       Please ensure your child has spare clothes in school, a number of children had toileting accidents last week and a great deal of time was wasted by teaching staff who were trying to find them something suitable to wear, because they did not have their own spare set of clothes hanging on their peg. Also please ensure the spare clothes are named  to prevent confusion.

     The learning objectives:

Personal, Social and Emotional

Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities

Can usually adapt behaviour to different events, social situations and changes in routine.

Confident to talk to other children.

Communication and Language

Can retell a simple story..

Builds up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences.

Responds to simple instructions.

Literacy

Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.

Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.

Recognises rhythm in spoken words.

Physical Development:

Can usually manage washing and drying hands.

Runs skillfully and negotiates spaces successfully.

Draws lines and circles using gross motor movements.

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Mathematics

Shows an interest in shape and space by playing with shapes or making arrangements with objects.

Shows interest in shapes in the environment.

Uses shape appropriate for task.

Understanding The World

Shows an interests in different ways of life.

Can talk about some of the things they have observed.

Talks about why things happen and how things work.

Expressive arts and design

Explores colour and how colour can be changed.

Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things.

Sings a few familiar songs.

     This newsletter will  be posted on our EYFS blog and facebook page at the beginning of each week.   It will also be available in the outdoor area, in a blue tray labelled ‘Weekly Newsletter’

  

     Messages.

      Learning Challenge

      Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.

      The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, famous person,  illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class.  The table below demonstrates some guidance.

       Poem/Song to learn: Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer

       Five little Men in a flying saucer.                                                                  Person: Mr Maker

       Flew around the world one day,

They looked left and right,

But they didn’t like the sight,

So one man flew away.

Zoom!                                                                               Composer/Piece of music:Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
1.    Learn it off by heart. 2.    Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme. 3.    Find out about stars.	Listen to the piece of music. Create some movements to the music. Draw an illustration to represent their feelings.	1. 1.Draw a portrait of the person. 2.   Find out facts about the person. 3. Watch the person in action.

    Dates for your diary:

Friday 25th November - Non uniform Day (Orange tombola prize)

Friday 8th December - Christmas Story Evening 5.00pm

Tuesday 12th December - EYFS Nativity 10.30 am or 2.30am

Friday 5tth January - Reception Maths Party - 9am

      The school will be closed on the following days for pupils:

       INSET Days: Polling Day:

9th February 3rd May

25th May

29th June  

If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address   is   eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk

       Kind regards

       The Reception Team