There was so much going on in class this week, we thought we’d celebrate even more great learning in Reception! Your second Class News post of the weekend! …
Autumn and Harvest
We’ve been discussing the season of Autumn and learning about the Harvest Festival.
Poppy D- It’s when you get in all the fruit and the vegetables… the farmers.
Max- Crops are chopped up by a machine and the machine is called a combine harvester.
We discussed why collections of food are taken in at churches, schools and community centres.
Lewi- It’s going to hungry people who need it.
We also made some Harvest posters and sang some Harvest songs!
Click here to watch Rainbow Class singing Big, Red, Combine Harvester.
Careful Counting
As well as continuing to learn about the numbers 1,2 and 3, we’ve been helping some toys do careful counting after they made some little mistakes in our Maths lessons!
We made sure we only counted each object once and that the number we identified as how many objects we had altogether, was the same as our stopping number. We said what we were counting after each number, to help us slow down (i.e. “one conker, two conkers, three conkers…”)
We used special tagging ‘wands’ to help us count our objects too.
Henrí Matisse Art Project
This week, Reception explored the art of Henrí Matisse. We focused on his ‘cut out’ artwork in particular. We listened to the story Henrí’s Scissors by Jeanette Winter, to learn about the artist’s life and methods used to create his cut outs.
The children chose their colour, painting a whole page. Next, using a stencil, they drew around the ‘leaf’ shape and cut it out. Together, we created a collaborative piece of art on a large canvas.
We can’t wait for you to see what we have created at our classroom drop-in sessions!
If your child would like to learn more about the artwork of Henrí Matisse, Tate.org.uk have some child-friendly videos and resources you can watch at home. Click here to visit now!
Diary Dates…
Tuesday 9 November- Maths in Early Years (Zoom)
The session will start at 6 pm and last around 20-25 minutes, plus there will be a question and answer session at the end of around 5-10 minutes.
The link to this zoom session will be emailed to all parents and carers after the half term break. If you do not receive a link, please contact the school office before Tuesday 09 November.
Friday 12 November, 3.30-4.00- Classroom Drop-in, Rainbow Class.
Friday 19 November, 3.30-4.00- Classroom Drop-in, Sunshine Class.
