It was lovely to welcome the children back to school after the holidays. They came back ready to learn and I couldn’t be prouder of them. They had remembered all that we had learnt so far and they had also remembered all the rules of our classroom. I was very impressed!
We have had such a busy week in Reception! We have hit the ground running with our learning and it has been non-stop. The children also had their first visit to church on Tuesday for the feast day of All Saints. They were so well behaved and respectful, and they did their very best to be quiet and still. I know that Father Frank was very impressed with them, and he made a fuss of them as were leaving.
Our theme in Reception this week has been celebrations. We have based our activities in our classroom around the Hindu festival of Diwali and Bonfire Night. We have also started daily guided reading sessions (just ten minutes a day) to start to help the children to fully understand and explore the texts they are hearing. This week we focused on the guided reading skills of vocabulary, prediction and inference with the book ‘The best Diwali ever’.
Look at what else we have been learning this week:
Phonics - the children have learnt three new sounds this week - ‘o’ - all around the orange, ‘c’ - curl around the caterpillar and ‘k’ - down the kangaroo’s body, tail and leg. We have also been practicing how to blend each day.
Literacy - we have started our Supertato talk for writing unit. The children came in to school on Wednesday to find that some vegetables had been trapped on the table! We then found a letter from the evil pea telling us that it was him who had done it! The children then wrote speech bubbles with what they thought the vegetables might be saying.
Understanding the world - the children learnt the story of Rama and Sita.
PSHE - we spoke about being ‘ready’ and what this might look like. The children sorted pictures of children who were ready to learn and those who were not.
Expressive Art & Design - the children have been creating Mendhi patterns this week.
Communication & Language - we practiced our listening skills through the game ‘boom, clap, grab’.
DT - the children have made their own Diwa lamps.
P.E. - the children learnt how to do an underarm throw.
Award winners
Each week during our school celebration assembly I will be handing out three certificates - Maths, Writing and a Golden award. Here are our winners for this week:
Maths - Arlo
Writing - Davern
Golden - Lincoln
Notices
A reminder to please ensure that all jumpers and cardigans are clearly labelled with your child’s name.
Please ensure your child’s water bottle is returned to school each day.
We will be holding a Christmas Fair on Sunday 4th December. More details to follow.
As we get closer to Christmas it is inevitable that bugs will start to circulate in the class. I just wanted to advise you that children can only return to school 48 hours after their last incident of sickness and diarrhoea. Thank you for your support with this.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Heim-Sarac, Mrs Debowska and Miss Murray
