It’s been another busy week in reception Oak Class. Here is a snap shot of some of the goings on…
On Thursday we made chocolate crispy cakes – everyone had a job – pouring the cornflakes, adding the chocolate, stirring, counting out the cake cases, adding the mixture or putting on the chocolate egg. All enjoyed while watching 10 minute Peter Rabbit programme at the end of the day!
For our Easter egg hunt – we had to find 40 eggs in the hidden in the playground – it didn’t take the children long at all to find them. We came back in and ordered them from 1 – 40.
Our activities this week included stories about the elves from our Elves and the Shoemaker story – What was it like where they lived? Other than make shoes what other jobs do elves do?
Our 3D shapes moved into the water tray ..
The children love drawing around the 2 D shapes on big paper so we revived thisactivity half way through the week.
Our elf construction table was a big HIT with everyone!
More 2D shapes inside – this time sorting them. The children have got really good at explaining why a triangle, rectangle etc is what it is. For example : What shape is the front door ? It’s a rectangle… how do you know that? Because it has two long sides and two short sides. The understanding is always more important than the answer itself!
Fill in the missing sounds…
Read and write the words that appear on the wheel ..
Make yo r own 2D shape picture with a bit of fine motor work here too.
Making palm leaves to welcome Jesus on the donkey into Jerusalem…
Pom pom pattern Easter eggs..
Using collage to decorate shoes for the shoemaker..
Lots and lots of counting/ 1 more 1 less / matching numeral to quantity followed by number problems.
Great fun, pencil and forward rolls in PE.
and last but not least our amazing Easter display of all the wonderful Easter creations you made at home. Thank you all so much. The standard was very high. Mrs Mooney and I had a terrible job of narrowing the entries down to a top 4. We then left it to Mr Quinn and Mrs Warner to choose a winner. They chose 2 winners in our class. Every entry was unique and so much time effort and hard work had gone into each and every one. Thank you all so much for making such a creative and exciting experience for the children.
Wishing you all a very happy Easter time – thanks again for all your support of the children and us! We are both very grateful to have such a lovely class.
Happy Easter to you all.
PS – Please bring in the cardboard tube from a kitchen paper towel for the first week back after Easter! Oh and your child will need a NAMED sun hat for the Summer term!
Thank you XXX