Week Beginning 16th November 2009.

This week in Reception we have been having lots of fun. We have been continuing our work on the story of 'The Gingerbread Man' and have made our own split pin gingerbread men. We then wrote instructions to help other classes make their gingerbread men.

Making a split pin gingerbread man
1. Cut out the gingerbread man’s body.
2. Cut out the gingerbread man’s arms, legs and head.
3. Get a split pin and put it through a hole on the gingerbread man’s head.
4. Attach the gingerbread man’s body to his head using the split pin.
5. Put his arms and legs onto his body using the split pins.
6. Write your name on the back of the gingerbread man.

In Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy we have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes.

So far, we have learnt that a shape with 6 sides is a hexagon, a shape with 8 sides is an octagon and a shape with 5 sides is called a pentagon.

On Friday, Reception 2 went on a shape walk all around school. We saw lots of different shapes includuing triangles, circles, squares and rectangles. We also found a four-sided shape which wasn't a square or a rectangle. Miss Woodger told us that it was called a quadrilateral... which we all had a go at saying! Some of us even remembered it later on too!

Have a look at our pictures of us finding shapes. What shapes can you see?

"We have found a circle and also a cyclinder!"

This Week in Reception

This week in Reception we have been doing lots of fun and exciting things.

In Communication, Language and Literacy we have been reading the story of 'Elmer' and we can also put the pictures from the story in the right order to help us retell it.

Continuing on from looking at 'Elmer' we have also been making lots of elephants in many different ways. We have drawn elephants, painted elephants, collaged elephants and even used some of our construction area resources to make an elephant! Some of us made Elmer Day elephants (where all of the elephants paint themselves different colours) as well as grey elephants. We have even painted and collaged two really big Elmers - come inside and see them! We all had great fun making them!

In Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy we have been thinking about more and less. So far we have thought about which group has more objects in it (for example, 4 tigers and 6 elephants... there are less tigers than elephants). Then we really challenged ourselves by trying to calculate what one more or less than a number was. We even began thinking about what is one more than 1563!

Our highlight of this week has been our NSPCC Sponsored event. For this we chose to walk around the playground as many times as possible. We managed to walk around not just once, not even twice... but 15 times! We were all very proud of ourselves. here are some pictures of our sponsored walk.

We have all had a great week this week at school and we are really looking forward to next week when we can learn and explore more about Elmer and maybe even look at some other adventures.

Last Week in Reception

Last week in Reception we finished our work on the book 'Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs go to School'. We retold the story in our own words using the pictures to help us (pictures in books are also called illustrations) and then we changed some of the words so that the story was a little bit different. We then acted out these stories to the rest of the class. Some of our titles included:

"Bella and the bunch of buttercups go to Brighton";

"Charlie and the rocket go to space".

In Numeracy we learnt how to order numbers: some of us learnt this using numbers 1-5, some of us worked with the numbers 1-10 and some of us even ordered numbers up to 25!

We also began our daily phonics sessions and so far we have learnt the sounds that 's', 'a', 't' and 'p' make. We know that snake begins with 's', Asda begins with 'a', tennis begins with a 't' and a 'p' word is pink!

We are looking forward to next week when we begin to look at the story of 'Elmer' and we also explore the idea of more and less than a group of objects or a number.

Welcome to Reception!

Welcome to everyone in Reception!

Last week we had lots of fun at school. Take a look and see for yourself.

Our book that we are looking at in Communication, Language and Literacy at the moment is 'Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs go to School'. We have really enjoyed reading and retelling the story and have noticed some similarities between Harry's first day at school and our first day's at school. We were also excited because next week at school the rest of our friends will be joining us in our classes.We've really enjoyed our first week at school, but we were all ready for lots of rest over the weekend!

Our P.E. Lesson

Today Reception 2 had a P.E. lesson outside. We decided to take some pictures and videos of our lesson to show you how fast we are!

This us playing a warm up game called 'The Bean Game'. It's very funny to play!

Here is race one:

Here is race two:

Here is race three:

Here is race four:

As you can see, we all tried very hard and had lots and lots of fun!

Our trip to Discover.

Yesterday we went on a school trip. We went to Discover, in Stratford, on a coach. There were lovely things for us to do there and we worked with Alice and Holly, the Story Builders. They were ever so nice. Everyone enjoyed it very much.

When we first got to Discover, we were a bit early so they let us play in their Story Garden.

Then we went inside, met Holly and Alice and were told all about Hootah, the baby space alien. His planet, Squi needs stories so we made one up for him. In our story there was a caveman who walked for 109 years through the jungle before he found a friendly hot dog man and bought a roll with 144 hot dogs in it! Holly said it was the most surreal story she had ever made up with children at Discover.

After this we made our own spoon puppets of the characters from our story. We all had a spoon and there were lots of resources for us to decorate the spoon with.

"Thank you Holly and Alice." said Ben.

"Thank you for that place and all the things there." said Simon.

Everybody enjoyed it (even all the grown ups!) and said "Please may we come back again?"

Wednesday 18th March 2009
Today the Reception classes had visit from Terry of Redbridge Drama Centre. He brought with him a letter from King Cole! King Cole wanted us to mend Humpty Dumpty. In order to do this we had to find the rocket and go into space. Then we found a dragon and he took us to story land on his back! When we finally met King Cole he gave us the pieces of Humpty Dumpty and we put him together again. We all had a great time!