Reception Learning Week 2

 

RECEPTION LEARNING - WEEK 2 AUTUMN 2

Key Information 

• The Reception Team would welcome any donations of Christmas decorations to help us decorate our classrooms for the children.
• Children in Need is on Friday 19th November - Please bring a £1 donation per family if you can. This will be a non-uniform day so feel free to wear - spotty clothes, bright colours etc.

Maths 

This week, the children are continuing to count and compare as they as they explore one more and one less. They completed a one more and one less activity using the multilink cubes. The children enjoyed using 5 frames to represent numbers and predict how many there would be if there was one more or one less. We have been looking closely at moving forwards and moving backwards and linking this to the vocabulary 'more and less'. 

Click the link to play using the interactive 5 frame: 5 Frame Game

Key Vocabulary: one more, one less, forwards, backwards, 5 frame, add, take away.

Elsie: "One more is three!"

Harry: "I've got five!"

Ronnie: "There are seven now I've put one more"

Lola:   "There is three'

Literacy

In literacy this week we have been learning about remembrance day and why we wear poppies. It is important that our children are taught about significance of Remembrance Day and why people wear a poppy.

To support the children's learning, we watched a short animation produced by cBeebies, called, ‘Poppies’ to help. It is a really beautiful piece to watch and was a great way to introduce discussion of Remembrance Day without focusing on the death and fighting. We focused on the importance of Remembrance Day and how we honour those people who have kept us safe and enabled us to live in the world we live today.

If you would like to watch the animation, click here: https://youtu.be/pv_ub7Be7oA

Key Vocabulary: Remembrance Day, happy, sad, poppies, remember 

Poppy: "Mine and Alice's look the same!"

Finley: " My mum will love my poppy picture"

Vrisha: " Do yo like my poppy, Miss Mullan?"

Eliza: " P is for Ppppooopppy"

Art

This week's art was linked to remembrance day. The children took part in lots of creative tasks, creating poppies to remember those who had kept us safe. We created class wreaths and laid them by the school cenotaph.

Key Vocabulary: thread, stick, paint, print cut. 

Jimmy: "I like painting, I do"

Alice: "Remembrance day is to remember the war people"

Roza: " I coloured in the poppy"

Lucas: "A poppy is red"