Hello!
Another busy week in the Reception classroom has seen us spend lots of time in the hall singing our Christmas songs, telling some jokes and trying to record the children doing these things… This was easier said than done! At some point you will be sent a link to see this year’s Christmas Show … we hope you will enjoy it! It will at the very least make you smile!
In the classroom we’ve done lots of work on letter formation and played rolling marbles around the letter shapes to help see where to start and finish each letter .
As we have powered through lots of sounds now we are playing lots of sound games – this one involved finding a word and then deciding whether it was a real word or an alien/ fake word.
Our Christmas preparations continue – our advent calander being very popular, along with the cutting and sticking of gifts they might like from catalogues! We have also written Christmas lists – if anyone would like to know what their child chose to write on their list just let me know!
We have been making story maps over the past few weeks – this week we chose Jack and the Beanstalk. Our circle time saw each child giving us a clue to what character they were from the story and the rest of us had to guess. This is such a good game for inference and understanding of story . For example ‘ I cut down the beanstalk with an axe. ‘ The children listen and think which character it might be – in this case Jack’s mother. They all really enjoy this activity and are getting better and better each time we play.
We also used Jack and the Beanstalk to help with our number work.
Our Christmas maths activity had the children collecting as many presents as they could in a 1 minute time. The record was 37 presents!!!
Our writers were back in full swing writing card after card and letter after letter for our role play post office.
Our good readers enjoyed reading and sequencing nursery rhymes.
We have our class Christmas tree up, our nativity scene and our Christmas books which all the children are enjoying next to the tree.
One week to go and your little one will have finished their very first term at big school! Well done for surviving! You have all done a great job! Don’t forget on Tuesday we will be having a class party – please bring in party clothes in a named bag along with some party snacks in a separate named disposable bag for your child. Some parents have given £1 for the party but this year we are not providing the food ( Covid 19) so if you have donated a £1, i can either return it to you ( please ask me) or put it in the next school charity collection which I think will be the Lunch Bowl Project in Kibera which enables children to be fed a meal once a day in the Kibera slums.
Until next week, enjoy any Christmas preparations and have a relaxing weekend.
Thank you
Erin Bibby