Welcome to Reception's Class Page
Teachers in our class are: Mrs Secker (Monday/Tuesday)
Mrs Salter Wednesday (Wednesday/Thursday/Friday)
Mrs Spencer
PE day: Tuesday
Spring 2
We are learning all about our wonderful world.
We will be exploring maps, globes and talking about different continents and what it is like there.
We will also be expiring lots of the celebrations and festivals happen in over the next couple of months, like Eid, Ramadan, Mother's Day, Easter, st David's day and st Patrick's day.
Week 6
This week, we have been thinking about Easter and how some people might celebrate.
We have continued thinking about seasonal change and have been looking for signs of spring.
To help with our reading of harder to read and spell words, we went on an Easter egg hunt in the school forest and searched for the words and read them out loud.
Week 4
This week, we have been learning about the Ocean as part of our wonderful world topic.
We have read the story 'The whale who wanted more' and we have been looking at photographs and videos of different ocean creatures. We have created some lovely art work and writing.
We have been exploring 3d shapes in Maths.
Week 3
Ths week is Science week in school.
The theme is curiosity - What's your question? . Each class has a question to answer.
In reception, our question is:
How are different animals the same and different from each other? We have been looking closely at pictures and making scientific comparisons, as well as doing some research by watching some national geographic kids fact clips.
Our new continent is Australia and we are reading 'The Koala that could'.
As is it Mother's Day on Sunday, we are also celebrating by making some lovely cards.
Week 2
This week, we are thinking about Africa. We have found it on the map and have been reading Meerkat mail.
We have been writing postcards with stamps like the meerkat in the story.
We have also been making meerkats out of plasticine and drawing other African animals.
In maths, we are learning to conceptually subitise to 10. This means recognising amounts by noticing small groups within it and combining without counting.
Week 1
We are learning all about our wonderful world.
We have talked about maps and globes and counties and continents.
We are loving the continent song!
We have been exploring and writing about different animals that are found all over the different parts of the world.
Spring 1
This half term we are learning about exploring and different kinds of travel.
We have some space themed focus texts and are doing lots of science, history and creative learning along with this. We will also be learning about Lunar New Year and safer internet day.
Week 5 and 6
wenhave continued our transport and travel books. We have been reading 'The Smeds and the Smoos' 'The Naughty Bus' and 'Lost and Found'. Through this we are exploring lots of our Understanding of the world learning, as well as some fabulous art and writing.
We have been exploring measure in maths and learning about Lunar New Year in RE.
Week 4
This week, we have had art day across the full school. Reception have been learning about Mondrian.
We looked at some of his work and created a piece in a similar style. The children did a fabulous job!
Week 3
Today we read ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy.
We made a story map of the events on the story and then we made a picnic for the moon just like baby bear. The children made and wrapped their own sandwich for their picnic. They chose ham or cheese spread. We then got into imaginary space ships and counted down to blast off to the moon. The children were brilliant at using their imagination and had a great time!
Reception had a brilliant visit from D-side Dave. He talked to us all about emotions, healthy food, exercise, medicine and other ways to keep our body healthy.
Week 1 and 2
We have been reading 'Here we are' and 'Look up'.
We have talked out the earth and moon and space and have been making rockets, telescopes, jet packs and lots more.
We have blasted our own mini rockets using bottles as a launcher.
Autumn 2
This half term, we are focusing on Traditional tales, as well as Celebrations like: Diwali, Bonfire night, Remembrance day, Hanukkah and Christmas.
Week 6 and 7
We have been very busy performing our nativity, making cards and decorations, doing the Reindeer run, Christmas yoga and lots of Christmas crafts!
Week 5
We have started December by sharing 'The jolly Christmas Postman' and decorating our class tree. We have also written letters to Santa and have been on a trip to the post box to post them.
Week 4
pur focus text is Goldilocks and The Three Bears. We have read the story and made our very own porridge. We voted to see who liked and disliked it.
Week 3
Our focus text is The Gingerbread Man.
We have read and acted out the story and done some story sequencing.
We made gingerbread people out of clay!
Week two
Our focus text is The Three Littel Pigs.
We have explored the story and made some crafts, as well as super writing.
We also learned all about Remembrance day and celebrated Children in Need.
Week One
We have been thinking about bonfire night and reading 'Little Glow'. In the story, we looked tat all of the celebrations that include light and firewoerks. We have made lovely firework pictures and yummy chocolate sprinkle sparkler breadsticks. We have been also talking about firework safety and the story of bonfire night. In music, we learnt a Diwali dance.
In Maths, we have been looking at numbers 4 and 5.
Autumn 1: Amazing Me!
This half term we are learning about the things that make us unqiue, and that we have in common with our friends in Reception. We are learning about emotions using the story, 'The Colour Monster,' things we are good at and the power of positive mindset, families and who lives in our house, Hill Top's 5Cs, people all around the world and Halloween.
Week One
We have reached the end of our first week in Reception class and what a super week it has been! We have fit so many lovely things into the 3 days we have been here including writing our names in our first piece of writing book work, learning which is our carpet spot, drawing our favourite things, creating self portraits, learning new routines and rules, sharing stories and making new friends.
Today we each received a special certificate to take home too. We gave everyone a very big clap as they came to the front to collect it.
Week Two
This week we are reading, ‘The Colour Monster’ and thinking about our feelings. Today we were all very busy exploring the new things in our classroom and took part in colour sorting with tweezers to support our fine motor, colouring our own colour monsters for a class display and using mirrors to think about what feelings can look like before sorting the faces into emotions.
We are looking forward to more Colour a monster activities this week!
Week Three
This week we have being thinking about what we are super at. Lots of us sent in images of us doing things we enjoy and we shared these with our friends during carpet time. We talked about the things we are great at, and some things we would like to get better at. We also learnt a new magic word, 'yet'. We have learnt that adding this to something we can't do can change it from a sad feeling, to a positive one. We have heard it used lots in class already:
Benny, "I can't put my jumper on yet!"
Elsie, "I can't cut the middle of the eyes out yet...!"
Week 4
This week we have enjoyed reading various stories about families. Lots of us shared photos of our families on Tapestry and we used these to make a lovely family display in our cloakroom. We talked about how all families are different and some have siblings, grandparents, mummies and daddies, parents that live in different houses, or two mummies or daddies. We spent lots of time drawing our families to add to our display, and we wrote about who is in our family in our writing books, adding initial sound labels to their pictures. Family trees were very popular and everyone used their handprints to make their own unique family tree. We added the names of people in our families to take home.
Week 5
This week we have focused on a positive mindset with the story, "Beautiful Oops," which focuses on how our mistakes can turn out to be something wonderful. We were inspired by the creativity in the story to make our own paintings with no real 'end goal' and used watery paint, pippetts and straws to create a beautiful peice of art which was as unique as we are. We have been focusing on fine motor this week and have had lots of fine motor tasks in provision such as pinching pom-poms with pegs, balancing bears on bridges and mark-making using a variety of resources. Everyone has enjoyed finding their own way to make a mark!
We have ended the week by reading, "The Dot," which is a beautiful story about how art can be made from the simplist mark. Everyone enjoyed making marks using the wipeboards and seeing where their creativity led them.
Week 6
This week we were very lucky to have Heather and Yushrah from Mindmate come into our class and talk to us about our feelings. They were very impressed by how many feelings words we knew such as, happy, sad, scared, worried and nervous. We talked about who can help us at school and home if we have these feelings and then they taught us how to breathe in and out using our fingers as a guide. Reception were fantastic, as always, and made us very proud.
We were introduced to Hill Top's 5Cs too!
*Challenge
*Creativity
*Confidence
*Character
*Care
Our 5Cs are the characteristics that we hope to see from the children and adults in school. We explained each characteristic and talked about how we could try our hardest to achieve good results displaying our 5Cs.
Week 7: All Around the World Week/Day
This week in Reception we have spent the week learning about Italy in prepartaion for the whole-school 'All Around the World' day held on Friday. We have learnt about the famous Italian food, landmarks, weather, language and even 'visited' on an aeroplane and took some holiday photos which we captioned. On Friday we all made Italian margherita pizzas and tasted them! We learnt that the ingredients were the colours of the Italian flag!
Week 8: Diwali and Halloween celebrations
Reception have had a wonderful few days learning about the celebration of Diwali, the Festival of Lights! We have made our own Rangoli patterns to welcome the Goddess Lakshmi, diya lamps using paper and plasticine, decorated our own Mendi patterns, danced to some Diwali music and learnt about the traditions of the festival. Our classroom is looking very beautiful!
We have also spent some of the week thinking about Halloween! We have made spiders using plastecine, decorated pumpkin biscuits to take to our pumpkin picnic, printed pumpkin artwork using apples, created spider-line drawings and much more!