Reception
2nd December
admin on: Reception
Hello all,
Well we are here, in the final weeks before Christmas.
The Christmas Nativity 'Going on a Baby Hunt' is going really well.
Thank you for helping your child learn their lines. Over the weekend if they could practise saying it slower and louder that would be fantastic.
It's their big moment and you will be very proud of them.
Practise outside, on a walk if you go and in the garden.
This week has been a week of looking at different materials we use for building and various pieces of furniture and objects around the classroom.
We have talk about some of the properties of these materials.
Plastic
Wood
Metal
Glass
Paper/cardboard
Which materials can be recycled and why we need to recycle many materials.
Which materials are man-made and which are natural.
We used magnets to test for metals.
In maths this week we looked at shapes and spotted shapes in our environment and which shapes are used for building materials and why? We discovered the school is made from stone and bricks.
Recycling station
Shape boats
Recycling and looking and talking about different buildings
Looking and describing different shapes and their properties.
Do they roll or slide?
Are the solid or flat?
Are they good shapes for building?
Next Thursday is our Christmas play. The dress rehersel is Tuesday.
Please make sure your costume is in school and if you don't have one please ask as we have some in school you can borrow.
Thank you for all your support and we are looking forward to seeing you all next week.
Mrs Oddy and Mrs Hemingway
25th November
admin on: Reception
Hello,
Please spend time each week to help your child to read.
We can see the improvement in many children who are having a go at home.
It makes a massive difference to a child's confidence and progression in these early stages of learning to read.
If you are unsure of how to help PLEASE come and see us and we are here to support you, to help your child at home.
This week have been learning about jobs of Police officers and Life boat, life guards at the coast.
We realise just because we don't live near the sea we do have life guards at Holmfirth Swimming Pool to keep us safe our our local community.
We have a Police Station near the swimming pool too.
We made our own boats using shapes cut from shapes using lots of mathematical language.
We also did an experiment outside to see what objects would float or sink.
We were composing and decomposing 5 which is part of our Early Learning Goal that we can recall all the number facts to 5 instantly.
We have use counters, 5 frames and cubes inside and outside.
Thank you also to Nurse Liz and Nurse Rebecca who came into school and talked to the the childen about their jobs in our community.
Thank you for you support,
Mrs Oddy and Mrs Hemingway
18th November
admin on: Reception
This week we have been learning about Vets, Doctors and Nurses.
They all have really important jobs in our community and we have both of them in Holmfirth.
We are learning in our community there are lots of people with jobs that help us if we are sick, need glasses, need to see a dentist or there is a fire.
We also learnt about how important it is to be safe on the roads especially in winter and why reflectors work.
On Friday we celebrated children in need and talked about why we need to support other children who are less fortunate than ourselves.
I wonder what we will discover next week?
Making a first aid kit!
Playing Doctors and Nurses
Inspirational patterns
Playing at being a Vet.
Thank you for your support.
Mrs Oddy and Mrs Hemingway
11th November
admin on: Reception
Hello all,
We have had another busy week.
Please remember to return your reading books and records on a Monday as this is the day we listen to all the children and change their home school books.
There may be a book or a sheet in your child's bag. The Ditty sheet is for your child to read.
We will talk to you about this individually at the parents sharing evening on Thursday.
We have been learning about why we need to visit the dentist and opticians on a regular basis..
We also learnt about Remembrance day and why people where the poppies.
We understand now why we need to clean our teeth with a fluoride tooth paste as least twice a day and know which foods are unhealthy for our teeth.
Here are some phots of the week.
Cleaning teeth
Investigating different bug eyes
Blending
Making glasses
Eye art work
Identifying groups of 1 2 3's
Noticing how most food are harmful for our teeth so we MUST brush them twice a day with a fluoride tooth paste.
Finding 3 objects and placing them on our 5 frames.
How many spaces are left to make a full 5?
Next week we are learning about the the jobs of Doctors, Nurses and Vets.
Please see the 'Micro-soft Team' home work for some pre learning clips.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Oddy and the Team
4th November
admin on: Reception
Welcome back to a vert busy half term.
The children have settled into school life and the routines really well after their holiday.
Just a polite reminder that reading books/sheets are changed on a Monday and library books on a Thursday.
Please keep your reading records and books in the school bag so we have them to write in and change accordingly.
This week we have been learning about Diwali the Hindu festival of light, Bonfire night and why we celebrate it and started to look at out topic of ' People who help us in our community' - The fire fighters.
If you spotted this link between all this .... 'Fire'
Therefore we have talked about how dangerous fires can be especially fireworks and matches.
Rangoli Patterns
Dressing up
Painting the characters in the story of Rama and Sita
Making Diva pots
Thank you for support at home!
Mrs Oddy and Mrs Hemingway