Our whole-school theme this half term is justice and, in Reception, we have been thinking about how we can work together to make things fair.  One of the ways in which we try to keep things fair is by using the sand-timer to take equal turns on the bikes or on the classroom computer.  We also know how to use the number mats to order ourselves when we are waiting for our turn on the Interactive Whiteboard.  Well done Reception!   

As you can probably imagine, reading the story of Goldilocks has prompted lots of conversations about fairness, as well as ways in which we can all be more thoughtful and, most importantly, try to make things better when things do go wrong.  We all agreed that one of the ways in which Goldilocks could have made things better would have been to say sorry to the Three Bears.

We read a different sort of Goldilocks story this week – A Bad Week for the Three Bears – which is actually a prequel to the traditional tale.  In the story, we discover that the poor, old three bears have actually had quite a rough week even before Goldilocks visits and creates such chaos.

We also took turns taking on the roles of Goldilocks and Baby Bear! We have some amazing actors in our class who were able to convey how these characters were feeling through both their facial expressions and their own choice of words in role (e.g. baby bear ended up inviting Goldilocks for a playdate!).

In our phonics lessons this week, we learnt 2 new digraphs; ‘oa’ and ‘ar’

The sound for the digraph ‘oa’ is the same as the letter name ‘o’ and can be found in words such as ‘goat’ and ‘boat’.  Here is the mouth shape, action and picture prompt for ‘oa’:

We also learnt the digraph ‘ar’ as in c-ar and f-ar.  Here is the action, mouth shape and picture prompt for this digraph:

We had a bit of a catch up this week, we two of our previous Stars of the Week presenting their fantastic number bags for numbers 17 and 19 to the class:

Our new number of the week was chosen as number: