Week Beginning 7^th October 2024

We have had another wonderful week in Reception!

We have started our 'Drawing Club' sessions. These sessions help to build children's vocabulary, their writing skills, their imagination and their comprehension skills. This week, we have been using the story 'The Little Red Hen' as a stimulus. The children have drawn and described the Little Red Hen and the other characters in the story.

Each vocabulary word has a corresponding action. The vocabulary words learnt this week in Drawing Club:

• Baking
• Ingredients
• Concocting
• Rising
• Unhelpful
• Just desserts
• Stuffing
• Collaborating

In Maths this week we have continued to learn about numbers one to five. The children have been ordering numbers, recognising and writing numbers and have been matching Autumn treasures to the numeral and Numicon. We have continued using Numberblocks as a hook for each lesson and the children are thoroughly enjoying our 'Maths Meetings'. In Phonics this week, we have learnt the following sounds: e, l, and h.

In the sand pit, the children have been filling bamboo pipes with sand and using the sticks they collected on their Autumn walks to write their name. They have enjoyed exploring the junk modelling area and we have been so impressed with their imagination and creativity! 

 

The children thoroughly enjoyed performing for their grown ups at their Harvest Stay and Play. We were so impressed with how confidently they performed the poems and songs during their first ever performance at The Stoke Poges School! Well done Ladybirds and Butterflies!

Here are some of the Ladybirds and Butterflies performing the Poetry Basket poems we have learnt so far!

 

 

 

 

 

Well done Butterflies and Ladybirds for another fantastic week in Reception!

Week Beginning 30th September 2024

We have had another lovely week in Reception. 

We have been thinking about Birthdays this week and how we celebrate them. The children created decorations for the home corners, made birthday cakes with playdough and even designed their own birthday cards. We have been reading the story 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'. In the mud kitchen this week, the children have been creating treats for the Tiger. We have been very impressed with their creativity and imagination! The children have been making their own Numberblocks and exploring the Autumn Treasures they collected over the weekend. They used adjectives to describe the different objects such as "spiky" for the pine cones and "shiny" for the conkers.

We have continued our daily phonics sessions. This week we have learnt the 'k', 'u', ‘b’, and ‘f’ sounds. The children have completed some rainbow writing to practise forming each sound and the phonics booklet for these sounds will be sent home today. 

We have continued our Maths Meetings this week and the children have thoroughly enjoyed learning with Cbeebies Numberblocks. This week, we have learnt about the numbers 4 and 5. Here are the rhymes we have taught the children for how to write each number:

4- "down and over and down some more, that's the way we make a four"

5- "across, down and round to the end, number five is round the bend"

We look forward to another wonderful week ahead with our Ladybirds and Butterflies.

Week Beginning 23rd September 2024

We have had another lovely week in Reception. The children have enjoyed painting self-portraits, using the mirrors to look at their different features. We have discussed how we all look different but are all special. 

In Art this week, we have been learning about colour mixing. The children have been combining primary colours to create secondary colours by using paint mixed with water. They were using the pipettes to squeeze a little of each colour on to a cotton pad and observed how the colours changed! We have also introduced Doodle Books to the Reception children. These books are for them to access throughout the day and they can mark make, draw and write freely in these. 

We have continued our daily phonics sessions. This week we have learnt the 'n', 'p', ‘g’, ‘o’ and ‘c’ sounds. The children have completed some rainbow writing to practice forming each sound and the phonics booklet for these sounds will be sent home today. 

We have started our Maths Meetings this week and the children have thoroughly enjoyed learning with Cbeebies Numberblocks. So far, we have learnt about the numbers 1, 2 and 3. Here are the rhymes we have taught the children for how to write each number:

1. Straight down in a line, number one is looking fine!

2. Around and back on the railway track, two two!

3. Around a tree, around a tree. That's the way we make a three!

We look forward to another wonderful week ahead with our Ladybirds and Butterflies.

Week Beginning 16^th September 2024

We have had a fantastic first week in Reception! The children have started to settle in and become more familiar with their surroundings. We have enjoyed singing, decorating our names with dabby paints, circle times and exploring all of the activities in each area. They have also loved learning this week's Poetry Basket rhyme - Pointy Hat!

In Phonics this week, we have learnt the following new sounds: m, a, s, d, t, and i

We have been so impressed with how well the children are settling in to Reception and we are looking forward to an exciting year ahead! Well done for a fantastic first full week at The Stoke Poges School!