Mrs Mooney and I would like to say a huge thank you to all the parents and children of Oak Class. We are both so thankful to you all, for allowing us to care of your little ones on this first big step into the world that is school. We have learnt so much about them (and ourselves) and feel we know, care and love them as you do! Thank you for all your support and the overwhelming gifts. They are not opened yet but we will look forward to opening and enjoying them over the summer. Enjoy a safe and happy summer; enjoy the children, do some fun things but know that it’s important for them to get bored and work out how to entertain themselves too!  Take photos and precious memories,  as from now the primary school years will fly by.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH

Mrs Bibby and Mrs Mooney X

A few photos from this week at school :

I’ve put together a few ideas of activities to try over the holidays – you don’t need to do any of them but if you find a day that you are stuck – try one of the ideas – the children will enjoy it – I promise! 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ObfsvdBFRF3TuRlgVlK4UcNGAee5vew3j1872yziWU/edit?usp=sharing

DON’T FORGET THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO DO OVER THE NEXT 5 WEEKS IS READ EVERYDAY !!! – Enable your child to read for 5 or 10 minutes to you and then you read to them. Make sure the book you read to them is too tricky for them to read by themselves. This enables your child to hear new vocabulary, different sentence construction and opens up their literary world! Enjoy sharing reading time with each other.

Hello! Only 3 more school days to go until your little ones move on to Year 1! Despite our extremely disrupted year the children have all made good progress in different areas and so much of it is down to all the time, effort and hard work you put in, especially while we were home schooling.

The children are ready to move on, they met Miss Leutchford this week and had a lovely afternoon getting to know here and her them. I will hand them over with copious notes about each child – including all their little foibles !

This week we have continued working on capacity:

Space …

Always lots and lots of reading …

We have made some beautiful moons and learnt how a spacecraft lands on the moon along with what the surface of the moon is like.

We’ve used our moon rocks from last week to establish the ‘ moon rock’ capacity of various containers…

Sequenced some stories ..

Used our tweezers and fine motor skills to rescue some stars.

A good read is Oliver Jeffers ‘ How to Catch a Star’

Counted/ sorted /added / balanced the chairs..

Carried on out stories with our rocket ship …

Our small world moon surface proved a popular activity …

Some children made their own shop..

We did sooo much writing!

And finally enjoyed a lovely sunny sports day!

For those of you heading off on holiday this weekend, thank you for a fabulous year, especially for all your support – Mrs Mooney and are are very grateful and have really enjoyed looking after your lovely children. Please, please read to your children over the holidays and ask them to read a little bit to you each day. Play lots of board games – snakes and ladders and Uno are fantastic for so many skills the children need and lastly please get your child to write something like a shopping list,  a note or a postcard once a  week. Five weeks is too long with no writing, reading and number practise and it will help them so much if you start Year 1 having done these things over the summer.

Have super summer holidays! I look forward to giving the children a wave when they are in Year 1.

Thanks

Erin XX

BLAST OFF!

This week we have left earth and travelled in a rocket to space! We started the week meeting Fizz’s friend ‘ Ziggy ‘ an alien who lives in space! The children love Ziggy and have spent much of their choosing time making more space aliens to be friends with Ziggy!

To go into space we would all need space helmets and space boots – we made sure we were prepared…

Our small world play was also rocket themed and armed with their space knowledge the children made up some super space stories through their play.

When our rocket reached the moon we collected some moon rocks…

Our number work this week has been Based around capacity – from the capacity of different Shaped bottles to the capacity of a car/ bus/ train…. football stadium even!

Our blast off puzzle was appropriate and popular this week.

We’ve a so practised making words …

designing rockets with the 2D shapes …

Designing our own moon surface…

and working together to achieve an outcome! Great team work Reception!

Our main focus this week has been our assembly. Thank you for learning the words with your children – they did a fabulous job! Usually parents would be invited in to see the assembly but that was not be this year so we have videoed it for you!  One to keep I’m sure!!

The office will be sending the assembly video out with a special password.

Last weeks magic carpets looking great on the wall.

Have a good weekend everybody X

Hello!

Our magic carpets have been flying  all over our world, into space, outer space and into imaginary new worlds. In music this week we used the tambourines and triangles to join in with the song : A Whole New World. the children really enjoyed this song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDYx7Tkc7I

Our choosing time activities have included:

Along with RE , The Big Question, ICT , Assembly practice, reading, writing, number, PSHE,  Circle time and Art; once again we’ve had another very busy week!

Our trip to Little Street was a great success. Thank you for all your support and help on this. The children were well prepared and all managed the 40 minute journey and had delicious lunches with them!  They had a super time. General consensus was the dressing-up area was the best part! Here are just a few photos from our trip.

We have started to practice for sports day – however that may look this year – we will find out soon –  and the children are working well in teams together and practising new skills. Skipping is proving the trickiest!  The flat races are the most fun with everyone running this way and that to try and win!

I have sent home a few words for the children to practice saying out loud for our assembly. Please help them to practice at home. ( Clemmie and James I’ve not forgotten you – you are doing a different job!) )

If you have any plastic 1 or 2 litre bottles such as a lemonade bottle please can your child bring it in next week. Thank you, have super weekends.