Reception
Chinese New Year
admin on: Reception
22nd and 23rd January 2020
For the past 2 days we have been looking at the festival of Chinese New Year, which is on the 25th January. This year it is the year of the rat. We began by learning a dance which helped us to prepare then celebrate the new year. We tried a vegetable stir-fry with prawn crackers, all of us had a taste and it was delicious!
We did lots of different craft activities including: hand fans, red money envelopes, making dragons with 2D shapes, lantern pictures.
In art we used brushes to create a symmetry dragon, wrote Chinese characters and numbers, and used recycled plastic bottles to make blossom trees.
We wrote our wishes and put them on the wish tree.
We learnt about the Chinese festival by reading different stories related to this including the story of the Chinese Zodiac. We worked out that in this class, we were either born in the year of the horse (2014) or the year of the goat (2015). We were lucky enough to see some objects and clothing that a member of this class wears during her celebrations with her family.
This week in maths, we have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes. We made 3D shapes out of playdough and pictures of everyday objects using 2D shapes.
What a busy two days we have all had celebrating!
Miss Hemingway
Spring 1 week 3
admin on: Reception
Thank-you to those who turn up at my number workshop.I will send a leaflet home with all the children on Friday with some ideas of practical games youcan play with your child to help with'number sense'.
This week we have been looking and talking about 2D and 3d shapes.
Please look round your house and out and about to spot shapes.
2D Circle, sqaure, rectangle, hexagon, pentagon, triangle.
3D cone, sphere, pyramid, cylinder, cube and cuboid.
Retelling the story of Chicken Licken.
Talking about Chinese New Year.
We had a visitor Mrs Akum, who was originally from Austraila. She told us about the country, animals and weather and why there might be fires at the moment.
Mrs Oddy
Spring 1 week 2
admin on: Reception
Friendships.
We made friendship bracelets today and talked about what it is to be a good friend.
Kindness, sharing, playfulness, having a laugh and smiling were some of the qualities we thought of as a class.
MONDAY 20th January 3 pm is a short Number workshop. Thank-you
Thank - you for the card board 20cm x 20cm we just need a few more in for next week.
New email address: reception@netherthongprimary.co.uk if you would like to get in touch with me about any issues.
Mrs Oddy
Gingerbread man day
admin on: Reception
15th January 2020
Today we have carried on looking at the traditional tale of The Gingerbread Man. We conducted some science experiments with ginger and some gingerbread men. We planted some ginger in soil and sand to see if it will grow into a flower. Keep looking at our windowsill to see the progress. Also, we used gingerbread men to test which liquids out of vinegar, oil, water and juice, would dissolve the man the quickest. We found that oil was the best and the other three dissolved the man completely. To finish, we created 'gingerbread men' out of different fruits and then ate them! In maths is week we are looking at teen numbers both recognising them and counting with them. Please could you carry on doing this with your children at home.
Keep counting!
Miss Hemingway
Australia Crisis
admin on: Reception
14th January 2020
Both children and staff are very aware of what has been happening in Australia concerning the bushfires. The School Government have come up with a fundraising idea to raise money to help all the animals that have been burned or injured. The WWF-Australia say that it has been estimated that around 1.25 billion animals have been killed across Australia to date. This includes thousands of koalas and other iconic species such as kangaroos, wallabies, kookaburras, cockatoos and honeyeaters burnt alive, and many thousands more injured and homeless. For more information visit https://www.wwf.org.au/get-involved/bushfire-emergency#gs.rrws96.
As a school, we are planning to walk the equivalent of the distance from Sydney to Canberra, which is 288 km or as close to this as possible across next week. We will be collecting donations on Friday 24th where we will see if we can fill an outline of Australia.
We really would appreciate the support and keep your eyes peeled for updates on our school blog.
Thank you,
The School Government