Reception Learning - Week 1

                                         

RECEPTION LEARNING - SPRING 2 WEEK 1

Welcome back Reception!  We hope you all had a wonderful half term. 

We have had an exciting week in Reception with the installation of our new pulley system in our outdoor learning area . The builders arrived on Tuesday morning and the children sat on the benches watching them install the new pulley system. 

Our new area is helping to develop the children's physical skills and strength, in particular their gross motor skills and shoulder stability. Shoulder stability is important as it creates a strong foundation for arm, wrist and hand movements. Large joints close to the body need to be stable to allow for smaller, coordinated movements to occur such as handwriting.

 

The children have shown great reciprocity skills by collaborating together and listening to each other. They have been curious about learning, made links between ideas, shown great imagination, and capitalised on resources.

Look how much fun the children have had exploring the new area.

Nikita “Look I can pull it up”

Roza “This is so cool, look at me balancing it!”

Subhan “Pull, Pull”

Iustin "I am strong"

Alfie "This is cool, it's a balancing thing"

Darcey "I have filled it up... all up to the top"

Maths 

This week we have been exploring length and height. The children have begun to use language to describe length and height, such as the tree is tall and the pencil is short.   The children made a height chart in their classrooms then had lots of fun ordering the class by height, going from shortest to tallest.  One of our maths activities was to order the images by length. 

The children really enjoyed this activity.

Harry “It's the longest!”

Fatima “This is short”

Theo "This one is the longest"

Noah "This one is short"

Kylie" This is the biggest one"

Lirsa " It is the smallest one"

Success " YES! I did it"

Key Vocabulary: Height, length, short, tall, long, measure.

How to support your child this week at home.

Who is the tallest member of your family? Ask your child to arrange family members by height order.   

Gather a range of your children's toys and ask your child to arrange them by height or length. Ask questions such as: "Can you predict which toy is the tallest?"  "Which toy do you think is the shortest?" "Why?"  "Which toy is of medium height/length?"

Literacy

Supertato took over over writing areas in the Reception classrooms. The children have thoroughly enjoyed this week and our theme of Supertato. 

To listen to the Supertato story with your child, click here.

Our focus in Literacy this week was to write a shopping list. The children thought about the vegetables that they saw in the story and used their phonic skills to list the items. We discussed the importance of a list; to help us to arrange, record, and remember things.

Abbas "I like eating fruit"

Emma  "Tommy,  I buy fish fingers"

Munsha "p p p potato"

Huy "T t tomato"

Araoluwa "I like writing shopping lists at home"

Harvey " I have potatoes on my list"

P.E

We had lots of fun in our PE lesson this week. As the weather wasn't all that great we went in to the new hall and the children completed a warm up with Miss Mullan, an obstacle course with Miss Onabiyi and learnt how to safely complete a forward roll with Mrs Hathaway. 

They ended with a warm down to some music.   

They all had lots of fun and really built up a sweat (well the teachers definitely did!)