Hello, the weekend is here at last!
Here is a flavour of what’s been happening in Reception Oak Class this week. We are still immersed in fairy tales and now have the whole class joining in with our mantras: ‘ Once upon a time..’ and …’ happily ever after!’ Our beds for the Princess and Pea are looking good on display. Each child made their own bed for the princess and chose how many mattresses to add to her bed.
We have started learning about Rapunzel this week, we’ve been building her tower and practising plaiting her hair! – not an easy task!
The porridge making for the 3 bears continues in different guises – using varying sized spoons and bowls. Counting how many scoops we need and following instructions.
The children really enjoyed Jack and the Beanstalk – we read three or four different versions and they enjoyed all the variation. At choosing time they went off to re- tell their own version of the story using the small world Jack and the Beanstalk.
Our maths beanstalk was a big hit !
Our number work continued with the children using post it’s to number the pages of our fairy tale books. They all had a go and worked carefully and methodically, numbering each post it and sticking their page numbers in the correct order! Great number writing and ordering of number practice.
A real highlight for me this week was listening and watching the children play ‘ Who am I ?’ with fairy tale characters. They thought of brilliant questions, they listened to their friends carefully and deduced the fairy tale character their friend had thought of. I was really proud at how grown- up they all were: taking turns, waiting patiently, listening, asking appropriate questions! A definite game to play at home or on car journeys with any category – not just fairy tale characters! Some of the great questions were:
Does your character eat grass? ( the thinking behind this was it could have been the cow from Jack and the Bean stalk )
Is your character lonely? ( Rapunzel in her tower)
Does your character like eating porridge? ( Goldilocks)
Not only have we been immersing ourselves in fairy tales we have been busy writing letters of invitation to home, inviting families to come along to our Christmas Show. Thank you to everyone for bringing in the stamped addressed envelope. Here is a picture of the children at the postbox today, ready to post their letters. As luck would have it the postman came along to empty the box while the children were there! Fingers crossed you will receive your invitation on Saturday or early next week!
Have a great weekend all – the Christmas fun is about to begin!