Cinderella has been our focus for the past two weeks and we have had a mystery to solve, just like Prince Charming in Cinderella, trying to find the owner of the lost glass slipper.  A special box containing some slippers with silver stars was found on our carpet area one day after break time. A complete mystery – they weren’t mine or Mrs Mooney’s – too big and too small respectively- so who did they belong to?

A great discussion evolved thinking about who had popped into our classroom lately … (hardly anyone as we are in strict learning bubbles! )  The children decided to make some posters for me to put up around the school so the owner could see the poster and come and collect their slippers. Some good investigating revealed they could belong to Fizz the drama lady who visits us or perhaps Mrs Warner as she does pop in to see us now and again. Slippers were tried onto both parties but were too small for them. Finally the owner spotted our posters and came to  our classroom … it was Mrs Morgan! Mystery solved!

 

 

In other news we have done lots of work on positional language – including building marble runs and describing how / where the marble is travelling. Later on in the week we used Tom’s Den ( the climbing frame) to carry on positional language – getting on, under, beneath, behind and next to Tom’s Den.

 

Our Cinderella small world was popular with children re-telling the story.

 

Magic wands were made for the fairy godmother ( pipe cleaners fantastic for fine motor work as we are not allowed play dough at the moment)

 

Number puzzles…

2D shape games .,.

Using all our cutting and sticking skills to make Cinderella’s coach.

Using the clocks to find midnight…. and other times…

Practising our writing…

Some super rolls, jumps and balances in PE.

We are learning more sounds including oo, ar, or this week and our daily writing practice using our traffic light sentence activity. Our ICT session this week was a sound game also recognising and practising these sounds.

Our whiteboards are great for practising writing our sounds in lots of different ways.

Another lovely week in Reception and Mrs Mooney and I are so touched by the beautiful flowers you have given us today. ( Along with cakes and chocolate earlier in the week !! – we were just told they came from The Parents!) Thank you all so much. Your children are a joy to spend our days with, we really enjoy their company! We  both feel very lucky to have such a great class and thank you all for your ongoing support through what has been an extremely disrupted academic year.

Thank you so much,

Erin Bibby