Reception Learning Week 5

 

                                             

        RECEPTION LEARNING - SUMMER 2 WEEK 5

Key dates and information

Monday 11th July- Southend Sea Life Centre Trip

Thursday 14th July- Go Bonkers!

Thursday 21st July- Last Day of Summer Term!

Maths

This week in math, we have been consolidating our knowledge of ordering numbers to 20. We have been using the correct maths vocabulary and practicing from different points. We ordered numbers from lowest to highest and highest to lowest. We also compared numbers and noticed which amount of objects had more or less. 

Our activity was to put numbers into order from 1-20. We did an amazing job!

Joshua- "12 comes next"

Aisosa- "1,2,3,4,5 then 6,7,8,9,10

Harry- “ 19 goes before 20” 

Mavis “1 is the smallest and 20 is the biggest number” 

Literacy   

This week we started reading Lost and Found. Lost and Found is a simple tale about a boy and a penguin and their growing friendship. One day the penguin just turns up at the boys house and the boy presumes he is lost so takes him to the lost and found office. Once they reach the office he discovers no one is missing a penguin. He asks some birds if they are missing and get no response. The boy finds out the Penguin is from the South Pole and so they venture there. The boy leaves the penguin then comes to the realisation the Penguin wasn't lost he was lonely. He quickly turns back to get his friend!

Watch the Story here: Lost and Found

Dija- “They can take a phone with them” 

Noah- “The boy can take a hat to stay warm” 

Sports Afternoon

This week we participated in our Sports Afternoon. We have been practicing for this and finally got to show off our skills! We did quoits on our heads, egg and spoon races, bean bag throwing, obstacles, hurdles and javelin throws. We all showed great reciprocity when cheering our team mates on and awesome resilience in the face of challenge. We had an absolute blast!

Chirag- "Look I can hold the egg"

Bentley- "I ran so fast and then jumped"

Tommy- "My daddy won the race"

Isabelle “I’m so good at balancing” 

Millen “we’re going to be the fastest” 

Calling all Reception Royal Jubilee Readers!

 

Reception Children 

The last day for submitting your  Platinum Jubilee Reading Challenge is tomorrow (Wednesday 8th June). 

Please return your competed challenge forms to your child's class teacher. 

HRH Queen Elizabeth: "One hopes that Reception win with the most number of challenges completed"

Reception Learning - Week 4

                                             

RECEPTION LEARNING - SUMMER 1 WEEK 4

Jubilee Celebrations W/B Monday 23rd May 2022

Jubilee Dress up Day - Thursday 26th May 2022 (Wear Red, White, Blue)

Inset Day - School Closed-Monday 6th June 2022 

Return to school - Tuesday 7th June 2022

Maths 

In maths, the children have been exploring number bonds to twenty.  This week we introduced the bar model to support learning numbers to 20.  

The bar model supports understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction in that both can be seen within the one representation and viewed as different ways of looking at the same relationships.

The examples above illustrates how the bar might be used for addition and subtraction problems. A question mark is used to indicate the part that is unknown.

Key Vocabulary: Number bond, bar model add, altogether, equal.

Eva:  "Four and three makes seven"

Mateo: " Ten plus two makes twelve"

Livai “ 5 add 5 is 10” 

Zarrar “ 6 and 4 is 10”

Success:  "five and five makes ten"

Tiger Lily " It's FIVVVVVVEEEE!"

Literacy

   

This week, we continued reading Tadpoles promise. This is a story about is about a tadpole who meets a beautiful caterpillar and they fall in love with each other. The shiny black tadpole promised the rainbow caterpillar that he would never change but that was not a promise he could keep.

Soon the tadpole changed. He grew two legs and then he developed two arms. His tail vanished and he became a frog. The butterfly could not recognise him. She cried herself to sleep because she was so upset. Surprisingly, she changed too… into a magnificent butterfly! Then something you would never expect happened. The frog leapt out the water and ate the beautiful Butterfly. 

Our literacy task this week  researching facts about frogs.  We discussed as a class different ways to retrieve information, the children were great in telling the teachers that information can be retrieved from books, computers, Alexa, Google, and the TV. 

Key Vocabulary: tadpole, froglet, frog, butterfly, willow

Ameera “The frog is green and has two big eyes” 

Abdul Hafiiz “Frogs live in the wet and dry”

Emma: "Frogs eat insects"

Nikita " Frogs are green and slimy"

Noah: 'Frogs live in the pond'

Ronnie: 'Frogs have big eyes"

Tadpole Update

The children have been checking in on the tadpoles daily and observing the changes as they grow from tadpoles to frogs.  They have thoroughly enjoyed watching them grow. 

On Friday, Miss Mullan is going to return the little froglets to the pond and we will pop down to see them when they've grown fully into frogs.

Emily “Tadpoles turn into froglets then adult frogs” 

Ameera “ I caught two tadpoles”

Mikail: "that one has got legs...look!"

Alfie: " They are actually really cool frogs...  I like them alot"

Lochlan: "They are bigger now"

People who help us 

We were very lucky in reception to have some police officers and special constables visit. 

They told the children all about their jobs and how they help people in the local community.  The children had lots and lots of questions and the police officers answered as many as they could. 

They showed the children their cufflinks, radios and body cameras. One police office even let the children try on his jacket

Finely: "I want to be a police car man when I grow up, they go fast "

Kai “I want to be a police man when I’m older” 

Mrs Hathaway:  "Wow, I can't believe how heavy this coat is," how do you run in this?

Tiger -Lily: "I saw a police car at Tesco's"

 

Reception Learning - Week 6

                                         

RECEPTION LEARNING - SPRING 2 WEEK 4

Key Dates & Information

Easter School Holidays - 4th to 18th April 2022
Bank holiday- 2nd May 2022- School closed
Polling day- 5th May 2022- School closed

Maths 

This week in school the children have been consolidating their mathematical skills. They have been  counting, adding, subtracting, number sentences, more than/less than. 

We have lots of amazing mathematicians!

Mikail: "Jace, I got six... I have to count to six"

Success: "I will help you Jimmy"

Key Vocabulary: count, add, equals, takeaway, more than, less than.

Literacy

This week, we continued with the topic book Izzy Gizmo.  This is a story about Izzy, a girl who loves inventing and fixing things.  Along the way Izzy makes lots of friends. We spoke about our friends in school and what we like to do with them. 

Isabelle: “I play with Ayra” 

Huy: “Building a tower”

Hayden: "We play with the water"

Taylor: "We go to the park"

Zofia: "I like to play on the big slide"

Harvey: "I like playing outside with my friends:

Easter Fun in Reception.

WOW! What fun we had on the last day of term! 

The children arrived to school looking amazing in their Easter hats.  The children (and parents) worked hard at home designing and creating their Easter hats.  The children loved posing for a photo in their hats!

They had great fun throughout the day completing lots of Easter crafts, making their Easter cards for their families, completing the Easter egg hunt.  

The children enjoyed listening to the Christian story of Easter.

 

During the morning reception went to the hall for the Easter hat parade. Mrs Nicholls and Mrs Stanley chose a 'best Easter hat' for each class.

A huge well done to 

Emma, Alfie and Isabelle.  

There was a lot of excitement towards the end of lunch, a few children had seen the Easter bunny hopping through some of the reception classes.  When the children returned to class after lunch they found a wrapped box with a  message from the Easter Bunny.

The message read

 'Dear Reception, 

I have left a surprise for you. If you want to know what it inside,

 please write me a letter and then you can open me at the end of the day, 

Love from the Easter Bunny xx"

The children were so excited by this and rushed to write a letter back to the Easter bunny.  It was lovely to see every child so focused on their letters.

We finished the end of the day and the spring term with a visit from the Easter bunny.

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We would like to wish all our reception children and their families a wonderful Easter holiday. 

We look forward to seeing you all back in school on Tuesday 19th April 2022.

The Reception Team.

Reception Learning Week 4

                                               

RECEPTION LEARNING - SPRING 2 WEEK 4

Key Dates & Information

Last day of term - 1st April 2022
End of term (Easter break) - 4th to 18th April 2022
Bank holiday- 2nd May 2022- School closed
Polling day- 5th May 2022- School closed

Maths 

This week we have been learning about 3D shapes, we  have looked at where we find 3D shapes in everyday life. We have explored the properties of each 3D shape such as how many faces and vertices they may have.

We have also learnt a new song which helps us to remember the 3D shapes. 

Click here to listen to the 3D shape song with your child. 

Our activity this week was to find 3D shapes and stick them in the right column. 

We had some great conversations about how different each 3D shape was. 

Great work Reception!

Joshua- "Its a cuboid look"

Mateo- "A football is a sphere"

Noah: "This one is a cylinder (tin)"

Jimmy: "The party hat is a cone"

Jessica- “The party hat is shaped like a cone” 

Onyeka- “This one is a cuboid” 

Key Vocabulary: faces, vertices, cube, cuboid, sphere, triangular prism. 

How to support your child this week at home.

 Click here to listen to the 3D shape song

GO ON A 3D SHAPE HUNT!

With your child, go on a hunt around the house for objects that are 3D shapes. They are everywhere see what you can find! Here are some examples:

- A coke can is a cylinder

- A football is a sphere

- A traffic cone is a cone

Literacy

This week we continued with the story Juniper Jupiter by Lizzy Stewart.  Which tells the story of Juniper Jupiter who is a real-life superhero, there is a drawback to being an incredible superhero and that it often be a lonely job. She decides to find herself a sidekick and stages tryouts to find her perfect partner in crime. Turns out that her helper was with her all along....

Click here to listen to Juniper Jupiter

This week, the children created posters in which the children described their very own superpowers. We have some super duper creative children here in Reception. 

Elsie- "I can fly"

Fatima-"I am super speedy"

Emily: "I'm good at dancing"

Ameera: " I can turn things into ice"

Science Week!

This week has been National Science week and to celebrate this we have participated in a range of activities. The fitting theme for what has been a turbulent time for all of us was ‘Growth’  this links with multiple areas across science, technology, engineering and maths. 

We have been lucky enough to have Year 4 buddies come to visit us and we used this time to measure our hands and feet. We compared sizes between them and us.

 We made corn flour slime, mixed paint in with water, made potions, created junk model inventions and designed boats then created them. It was awesome when our boats stayed afloat. We also did experiments one where we watched 'raisins dance'. We put raisins in a cup and noticed nothing happened then we added raisins to lemonade and that's when the magic happened, they bopped away in the lemonade.

 Finally, the BIG SHOW! We added Mentos to coke and stood back and watched the EXPLOSION! POW! 

Watch our experiment here!

Our experiment was filmed by our amazing digital leader, Archie in year 5.

Taylor- "Look at all the slime wow"

Eliza- "The water is green now"

Emily: "This is exciting"

Livai:  "I think it will change colour"

Poppy:  "My hand is smaller than yours Nevaeh"

Danni-Ella: "That tickled" (when Summer drew around her foot)

Jacob: "Look that is my hand"

Alice: "I liked it when she (Demi) measured my head" 

We enjoyed completing the 'daily mile' with our Year 4 Buddies!

 Great fun and great exercise!

Alfie: " Oh Wow, it's changing colour"

Danni-Ella: " This is fun, mixing the colours"

Alder Class having fun with their Year 4 buddies!

Sophia: "Ooh this is slimy"

Ayra: "This is fun"