Netherthong

Reception

March 4th

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Hello,

Welcome to Spring term 2.

The children have come back buzzing and really excited to learn.

We can really tell the children who are becoming independent learners and putting in that extra effort at home.

Well done!

This week we have started our topic on Space and have been looking at the book 'Whatever Next' By Jill Murphy

The children have had fun building rockets, re-enacting out the story, making characters from the story and learning facts about space.

We also squeezed in a talk about St Davids day, Shrove Tuesday and ate pancakes on Wednesday.

On Thursday we celebrated world book day and listen to the Author Gareth P Jones talk about his children books about fairy tales on Friday.

What a busy week !

Rockets

Owl

Rocket

Problem solving

Thank you for all your support at home,

Mrs Oddy and the Team

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Friday 18th February

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Well we made it the end of a long Spring 1 term with little disruption to our curriculum.

We had the last of our planned Tradition Tales this week.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

The children have loved being in character and thinking about all the feeling of the characters?

Why did Goldilocks go into the house?

Was she lost?

Was she hungry?

We have fun printing and cutting thick and thin strips of paper to make our forest scenes and of course we had to try porridge.

We designed and made chairs for baby bear from materils such as lego, blocks and junk boxes.

Looked at different sizes in maths.

Here are a few of the highlights.

Making porridge - 3 scoops or 2?

Building the cottage.

Making Valentines cards. - free choice

Building their own small world play set showing the three bears house and pathway.

Reading practise in and amongst the quality play.

Have a lovely holiday and hope we get some dry weather.

Mrs Oddy and the Reception Team.

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Friday 11th february

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Well we have had another week looking at Traditional Tales. The Three Billy goats Gruff.

We have looked at the structures of bridges and experimented with different designs.

Please take your child to your nearest bridge (safely) as they didn't know we have a bridge in Netherthong village or Holmfirth?

Look for the arch shape underneath and talk about what material the bridge is made from.

It's it an old or new bridge? How do we know?

In maths work this week we have been splitting up (decomposing ) the number's 6,7,8 and seeing how they are made up of smaller number. We also looked at odd and even number using pairs of socks.

Crafting we designed and made 'Trolls'faces.

Here are just some of the highlights:

Experimenting with bridge structures

Investigating numbers 6,7,8

Free play

Thank you for all your support at home.

Mrs Oddy

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Friday 4th February

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This week we have been learning about Chinese new Year.

The year of the Tiger officially begins on the 1st February this year. It is the start of a multi day festival for around 2 billion people around the world. It happens on the second new moon after the winter solstice. (Lunar New Year)

Here are a few of the activities we have enjoyed this week.

We made some percussion instruments with different materials inside which made different noises. We sang two celebrations songs, danced the dragon dance in P.E and watched the dancing dragons and tigers on the big screen.

Chinese Dragons

Constructed Dragon

Cooking Stir fry!

Decorating the house.

Cutting out a spiral dragon.

Happy! Dragon made.

Making groups of 6 in our maths work. Looking at making 6,7,8 this week.

I will be doing a maths workshop on Tuesday 8th February. 2pm it will last 20 minutes.

It will be recorded if you can make it.

Thank you for your continued support.

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Friday 28th January

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Well we have as a super week retelling the story of ,The Three little Pigs.

We have also learned that pork products come from pigs which many of us enjoy eating such as ham, sausage, sausage roll and bacon. p.s pigs can swim.

We did a science experiment with the different materials used to build 'the pigs' houses to find out which was the most stable.

We have also been looking at weighing, understanding that heavy objects have a lot of mass and light objects have little mass. Just because an object is big it doesn't mean it is heavy!

We also learnt a poem from Robert Burns a Famous Scottish Poet who is celebrated every year on the 25th January in Scotland. We had a go at a Scottish group dance in the hall and learn't the first verse of one of his poems.

Red Red Rose.