Welly Walk
As part of their Nature Study time with Mrs Myers, the children went on a muddy welly walk yesterday! The texture of the mud was described as “squelching”…
There was great excitement:
“We’re going on a scavenger hunt!”- Faith
“We’re going on a bear hunt”
Some fantastic discussion around the changes that happen in the season of Autumn:
“Leaves changing colour”- Reyansh
“They’ll blow off the trees!”
“They turn yellow”
Reception enjoyed listening to the story of The Gruffalo, before talking about what kind of animals they might see on the walk. There was super excitement at the discovery of a mole hill!
“We don’t want to wake them up or they’ll get frightened!”- Alice
Ask your child what their favourite part of the ‘welly walk’ was. Perhaps you have been on a welly walk recently at home? Don’t forget to share your news and photos with us:
scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Parent Partners
We know our parent partners are missing being able to come into the classroom and share learning with your child- we are missing having you in the classroom too!
We really value home-school communication and have been thinking of ways to share more of the classroom with you, given the current restrictions.
Here are the ways we will be ‘keeping in touch’ or sharing with you :
- The last week of each half term you will receive a collage of pictures of your child playing and learning.
- During the school year, your child will become a ‘focus child’ for a week. We ask for current interests and an up-to-date view of your child and we have a ‘catch up’ meeting at the end of the week to talk about progress and what we have noticed. The dates of your child’s focus week will be sent in advance. There will be more information on this in our upcoming Parent Partners presentation.
- Parent presentations which would usually be face-to-face throughout the school year, will be provided through either a screencast or powerpoint slides for you to read at home. These will be posted to the class news page.
- Class News will be posted regularly, to help you keep up-to-date on classroom learning.
- Our Parent Partnership board in the classroom holds a postcard for each child, with notes on current interests both in school and those you share with us from home. We also display emails and photos from home on this board.
We are available to talk to about concerns or questions via email, telephone or in person at the end of the school day and we really love it when you send WOW moments of learning at home or photos of interests, trips or days out. Thank you to those who have already sent emails in.
We look forward to continued partnership with you, throughout the school year.
The Reception Team.
Week Commencing 05.10.20
We are all set up and ready to enjoy learning related to ‘The Gingerbread Man’. This week, we will also be looking at our phonic sounds s,a,t, p and the number 2.
Outside fun!
We have really been enjoying our outside provision. We change activities outside weekly but there are some things that children love to repeat daily. Observing how the season is visibly changing in our outside area is very enjoyable because we have many beautiful trees and shrubs. With the changing season comes a little more mud. Thankyou to the parents and carers who have just smiled at the mud patches on their child! We do have a ‘welly wash’ in action to reduce the walking of mud back inside the classroom. Have a look at what some of us have been up to. (Please note the very tired bee that sparked lots of amazing conversations).
The Little Red Hen
This week in reception we have been reading the story – The Little Red Hen.
We created and used actions to help retell the story.
We also thought of our own story by changing some of the characters.
Our First PE Lesson
Another first for reception! We had our first PE lessons this week.
We focused on moving around the space in a variety of ways. Stomping our feet and pretending our feet were stuck in mud were definitely the most popular. Then we challenged ourselves to balance on different parts of our bodies.
Our key message was -wobbling means our muscles are working.
Home Is Where The Heart Is
Reception have really enjoyed using the home corner to develop their imagination and confidence based on their own family experiences.
We would like to enhance our home corner with real family photos to show how all families are different and how we are all unique.
If you would like to send a photo to be used within our classroom, email a family photo to scholesf2@spherefederation.org
PE in Reception….
A quick reminder that from this week, PE sessions for both Sunshine and Rainbow Class will take place on a Wednesday and Friday. Please send your child to school in their PE clothes on these days.
Thank you.
Phonics Fun and Zero Heroes!
Reception have been AMAZING in their first ‘carpet time’ learning sessions this week.
We’ve been playing listening games in phonics. We listened for sounds in the environment by going on a ‘sound walk’ outside and tried our best to hear the same sounds in rhyming words, by playing ‘Silly Soup’. Yesterday, our classroom ‘Everywhere Bear’ used toy-talk to sound out some words for us to blend.
Ask your child if they can show you one of the phonics games we have been playing this week.
In maths this week our focus number is zero. It’s really important that children understand the ‘value’ of zero. As the Numberblocks told us:
“When there’s nothing there to count and none is the amount”
The children have been super speedy at understanding that that to get to zero, we “take it all away” or there is nothing to begin with. We’ve been making some funny zero number stories together too!
The class really enjoyed our Numberblocks video this week. If you’d like to access these at home, all of the episodes are available to watch on BBC iPlayer
Please continue to send us news of your child’s interests and learning at home:
scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Leeds Needs Trees
Leeds City Council have launched a scheme to increase the number of trees around the city. Collect tree seeds (conkers, acorns, beech nuts and sweet chestnuts) and take them to a collection point around the city. The Arium is the closest one to school and you will be helping create new habitats for birds and animals.
