I hope everyone has enjoyed a relaxing bank holiday weekend. Sorry this is so late – our weekend has been quite busy!
The Mufti day caused much excitement in Reception with everybody keen to show off their ‘ own clothes’. There was so much interest in each others outfits that we decided to do a quick fashion show… I have to say we don’t have many shy children in the class!!
Our writing has been getting better and better, so much so we have been using the story puzzles to create new stories, write them and add some extra description of our own.
Our hot air balloon adventure has continued – we looked down from our balloons and imagined all we could see – our small world tray helped us imagine through our play.
Lots more letter formation practice this week…
We did a real/ fake word activity this week and continued it during our ICT session. Read the word and decide if it’s a real or ‘ fake’ ( made up word). This is one of the ways using sounds to help reading is embedded. No picture clue as would be found in a story, just the word to sound out and decide if it’ s a word you know or not!
Doubles has been on the agenda in maths this week. We used Rosie and Duncan the twins to help us ‘ double one’ and moved on from there.. Ladybirds are a great resource for doubling as you can double the amount of spots on one side on the other to make a new total. We played the ladybird game and finding the correct number of spots to double on our ladybirds.
As always our writing area is always busy – this week with hot air balloon writing.
Our papier mache hot air balloon project continues… slowly…
and the children had a week of bubble blowing too!
Wishing you all a restful but exciting half term! See you next week.
Erin Bibby