Many thanks to everyone who came along to the parent evening meetings this week.  We hope you found your meeting useful and enjoyed getting more of an idea of what your child gets up to during the school day!

This week we ‘took a peek’ outside into the animal world by reading the fantastic story of Superworm.  This is one of Julia Donaldson’s many wonderful stories and is about a rather special worm who always helps his friends out of sticky situations by using his body in clever ways!

The children were rather taken with the story and many of them chose to recreate Superworm’s adventures at the playdough table.  Here he is using his body as a train:

Some chose to invent their own new ways in which Superworm might use his body, perhaps as a fancy table or even a prison!

Our enthusiasm for Superworm spilled over into our maths lesson too, when we had a go at ordering three Superworms by their different lengths.  The children knew just what to do to put them in the right order and they were able to use words such as ‘longer than’, ‘shorter than’, ‘longest’ and ‘shortest’ to explain what they had done.  Well done Reception!

Weekend Challenge: Can you find three objects as home to put in order by size, perhaps 3 teddies or 3 spoons.  How about finding a pair of shoes that belong to each person in your family and organising them by size from shortest to longest.  Don’t forget to take a photo of your ordering and send it in or bring it into school!

The children always enjoy playing with the wooden blocks both inside and outside and, this week, the blocks were used to build several towers of different heights and walkways of different lengths.  Some incredible tower designs were also constructed inside with the smaller wooden blocks!

Of course, we also spent lots of time outside, searching for the real Superworm.  I wonder if we found him?

The number of the week was 4 and our star of the week did a fantastic job of filling up his number bag with all things to do with the number 4.  Here’s what he brought in to show the class:

Our new number of the week has been chosen as the number 8:

And finally, in our phonics lessons this week, we learnt two new sounds; ‘e’ and ‘u’.  Here are the actions and mouth shapes for both:

It is very easy to muddle up the vowel sounds, especially e and i.  Try to remember e is for e-lephant, while i is for i-gloo.