We are all here! Everyone has now started in Reception and we are really proud of each and every one of them.  They have come in willing and ready and tackled each day with gusto and enthusiasm!

It’s been a second busy week settling in and getting started on our reading, writing and numbers!

This term’s topic is called ‘ WHO AM I? ‘ We are starting by taking a good look at ourselves…

All the children have managed a first piece of writing in their book and completed a first number task. We have practised name writing everyday and would ask you to practice this at home too if your child is developing name writing skills.

Our tricky word of the week was ‘ I ‘ – all the children made a big cardboard I for our wall. We used our big I’s for circle time and learnt taking turns, listening to our friends and found out something about each other as in turn we held up our I’s and said ‘ I am …. ‘ and ‘ I like…. ‘. We discovered lots of our class like sweets!

This week has seen the children have a close look at their eyes in a mirror and have a go at drawing them and finding the correct colour for their eyes. We used their eye pictures to create a bar chart of eye colour in Reception. The children managed to ask and answer questions regarding the graph. ‘ What is the most popular eye colour in our class? ‘ ‘ How many children have green eyes?’ and so on.

This weeks class discussion was all about our hands and what we use them for .. lots of good ideas here! Our focus was to reiterate that we use gentle or kind hands !  We documented all the great ideas and had a picture taken of our hands.

Our portrait wall is complete now this week’s starters have arrived. Everyone painted themselves in their new uniform, chatted about what they liked best about it and all wrote their name for our display.

While one of us is busy working one to one on directed tasks with the children, the rest are busying themselves with the continuous provision activities in the classroom. These times allow the children to play, explore, try something out that we’ve talked about, build, make, paint, cut and best of all learn to share and play with each other. Here are a few photos of some of the children working independently.

I’m looking forward to the fun that will be had next week in Oak Class Reception already, see you then!