Oak Class has been transformed, this week, into a holiday destination – we have a sandy beach for sandcastle competitions, ice- creams, shell collecting, picnics  and  a Punch and Judy show!

Continuing our fishy theme we have moved on from Tiddler to The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. We have delved into the depths of the ocean, we watched some amazing videos in life under the sea. Everyone agreed we should all watch the edited highlights of Blue Planet. If you are able,  do show some clips of David Attenborough’s Blue Planet to your child  as they were were genuinely transfixed by the few short clips we watched about life under the sea.

The Rainbow Fish story lent itself to talk, listen, write and put into practice how to be a good friend, just as The Rainbow Fish does – we’ve been busy!

Meanwhile,  since we are coming to the end of our time in Reception,  we’ve been having some fun with our learning of phonics and played some good sound games on our interactive smart board.

The nursery role play area is currently an aeroplane which has tied in nicely with our beach holiday destination role-pay. During our ‘ mix-up’ session this week children really extended their play across the two rooms – flying off on holiday from nursery and enjoying their time on the beach in Reception! Below is an example of just one of the luggage vans taking luggage to the aeroplane!

As the year has progressed the children have been spending more and more time at our writing table – it’s been jam-packed every day for the last term!  They are independently getting themselves ready for Year 1!

The children took it upon themselves to do tally charts this week. New pens arrived in the writing area and the tally charts have been all about our favourite colours. Over the week nearly every child has made a colour chart and asked everyone and anyone they  have come into contact with what their favourite colour might be; and have then noted it down in a tally! At the last count pink and turquoise were the favourite colours.

All the usual Reception business carried on, under the sea puzzles were completed, fishy word searches and oh so much junk modelling! The love of a cardboard box never ends!

A busy week next week including French Day, Sports Day and a Bounc-a-thon!

Don’t forget to pop in on Tuesday from 3.30pm until 6pm to have a chat and of course pop into Year 1 to meet Miss Leutchford.

It will be the last blog next week. See you then.