Book Week at St Matthew’s has been very busy. Our Reception, Oak Class, have enjoyed an assembly getting us ready for Book Week. This year our focus has been poetry and Miss Leutchford introduced the whole school to a poem called The Magic Box by Kit Wright. Our imaginations were sparked and each class wrote a new stanza for the poem!
The whole school also enjoyed a mix – up day. This entailed all the children working in house teams rather than their class. Spencer ( green). Churchill (blue), Wilberforce(red) and Cecil ( yellow ). The children enjoyed 4 different activities: a singing workshop, a sports and games session, an arts and crafts hour, they made banners to decorate the hall, entered a bookmark competition to win a signed book from our visiting poet and used plasticine to create a Jabberwocky from Lewis Carroll’s poem The Jabberwocky. The children coped incredibly well with our mix-up day, working with all the older children and even having break and lunchimes in different playgrounds.
A highlight for Oak Class came when we had the opportunity to take part in a dance workshop based around Lewis Caroll’s poem The Jabberwocky. All the children enjoyed imagining and moving just like a Jabberwocky – it was quite scary!
The visit from poet Stewart Henderson was a lovely way to round off the week. He asked the children where they were going to spend half term… from the answers he received, he wrote this poem:
Germany, Scotland, Leicester,
Cornwall, Devon, France,
Getting up quite early,
Wearing my best pants,
Czech Republic secret,
Swimming in the sea,
Words that tell a story,
Of us, of you, of me.
As book week rumbled on throughout the week, Oak Class threw themselves into reading, writing and number. Everyone drew a story map of our story ‘ The Little Red Hen’ and some children had a go at writing the story! Reading here there and everywhere has continued, along with taking a look at subtracting!
We had so much fun making bread for our ‘Little Red Hen’ . It was a messy business that ended with a tasty treat! Well done to the Oak Class Bakers!
After mesauring out our ingredients,we mixed and kneaded our dough. Mrs Bibby took our bread to the school kitchen to bake in the huge oven.
We all tucked into our loaves – with so much bread on offer one member of Oak Class even initiated a taste test!
In other news … this weeks number bag was the best yet with number 4 being subitised in 11 different ways! Learning our sounds, free writing, The Big Question, RE, PE, music and all the other great things that happen in Reception carried on too.
Have a happy half term everybody!