Hello!

Another busy week in Reception has seen our home corner change from a school into a doctors surgery. This was greeted with much excitement, a whole host of ideas of what we might need in a doctors, along with many tales of visits to the doctor!

Our accompanying story was : Funny Bones by The Ahlbergs: 

The children have been extremely creative and been drawing skeletons, and trying to make skeleton pictures out of cotton buds – this is easier said than done!

Number work this week has comprised of lots of counting out loud, recognising numbers, ordering sets of numbers, matching numbers to amounts and writing numbers.

Our Reception reading helpers have all started over the past two week. The children all have the opportunity to read with a reading helper over the week. Lynn, Lesley and Mrs Robinson have this week got to know the children in preparation for all the lovely reading that is to come! Our Year 6 children have also started their reading buddy scheme, where they pair up with a Reception child to read to and listen to them read too. Our group reading will get up and running once we are a little more proficient.

Looking after ourselves in the doctors has included remembering our teeth. We’ve seen how many teeth we can rescue from the crocodile pond, brushed, brushed and brushed again – helping our fine motor skills and played a dice game adding teeth to the mouths!

We are looking forward from visits from a doctor and dentist in the weeks ahead to tell us all about their work helping people.

We have had activities to enhance our fine motor skills these past few weeks – hammering pegs into playdough has proved an unexpected hit! 

This week we went for it and all got changed for PE ( rather than just socks and shoes the previous two weeks). Mrs Mooney and I were pleasantly surprised at just how independent all the children are with their self help skills! Thank you so much to all, it’s hard to work and takes time to give little ones the opportunity to be dressing themselves, but other than a few buttons, they were fantastic and we were delighted!

We are also happy to announce our two School Council representatives from Reception Oak Class. Congratulations and good luck in your important roles.

We have fitted in so much more, but this  is a snap shot of the comings and goings of Reception Oak Class this week. Have a good week!