Hello and welcome to Oak Class, our Reception class at St  Matthew’s.

Each week I will post a few photos of the children learning and playing. I will focus on the weekly themes, sounds, letters, numbers and stories.

This week we have all been settling in to the new school routine, as well as getting to know our friends.

All the children have managed to paint a self portrait of themselves, have a go at writing their name independently, admired and spoken about their new uniform, and managed to tell us a little about their summer’s.

Snack time

Lunch time …

Our theme this term is Take a Peek…  can you spot your child’s eyes? !

Or you child’s baby picture?

The children have been painting their portraits – looking closely in the mirror to get their faces and of course new school uniform just right … I’m in the midst of putting them up!

 

 

 

Our role play area in the classroom is a baby clinic and the children have been busy changing, weighing, feeding and looking after all the babies. Through this interactive role play the children are collaborating and getting to know each other.

 

 

Our stories this week have all been starting school stories: 

 

The children have been busy in the classroom, building with lego, creating stories with wild animals, colouring, painting,designing and creating tracks,  playing trains and finding quiet reading corners when things get too much! In our outdoor classroom we have had lots of writing, number work and building with the big community blocks outside. During break- time – sliding, climbing, running, chasing, riding the school bicycles playing with hoops   and investigating all the activities on offer in the classroom.

 

Look out for an overview of our work Reception coming to you via a PowerPoint on email. Thank you very much for bringing in the wellies, PE kits  and baby pictures. Very much appreciated.

General class logistics:

• Please bring any CLEAN recycling to school –  we fly through cereal boxes and the like for our amazing junk modelling creations!
• Book bags will go home next week – on your child’s book bag day. Please return it the next week on the same day. No need for the book bag to come in everyday.
• The children will be bringing 4 books of their choice home a week. As term progresses we will add ‘ reading books‘ into the bag for them to read to you.
• Please contribute crackers/ breadsticks/ biscuits/ chedders etc to our class snack scheme every so often. This means there is NO NEED TO BRING A SEPARATE SNACK EACH DAY. 

Sorry for all these logistics – once in place – the year runs very smoothly!

Thanks so much for your support – please pass on the details of this blog to all the parents/ carers in the class.

Enjoy the weekend!

Looking forward to next week already!

Mrs Bibby 🙂