Welcome to Reception / Year One
Each week I will add some information about what has been going on in the class!
You can also print off the homework for the week just in case your child wasn’t in on Friday.
Week beginning 13th February
The children created another story this week using our story bags – this time it was about a princess, prince and a giant. They had some fantastic ideas and they enjoyed sharing them with their talk partner. We have spent the week consolidating our learning and the year one children have had a maths ‘quiz’ which they all did really well on!! The children have also being reading and spelling their tricky words and we have been assessing which sounds they know. Enjoy the week off and I am sure the children will have already told you about our next topic – Superheroes!!!
Week beginning 6th February
The children have enjoyed measuring things this week – including me! They have counted how many cubes long, short and tall things are and have also measured in paper clips! Some of the children have started to use rulers and record results in centimetres.
The role play airport continues to interest the children and many have imagined they were flying to Disneyland this week. We did do some research about Spain and have learnt some Spanish words too – this came about because the children wanted to know more about the country.
We have been writing a class story this week which I promised the children I would put on here – it will be attached shortly! We used our Story Bags to help us write the story and the content of it comes very much from the children – even the bit about spaghetti bolognaise. If you want to find out more about story bags then visit the following website which will give you further information - Story Bags
Week beginning 30th January
This week we have learnt about instructions. The children have enjoyed giving each other instructions on how to do very simple things such as, cleaning their teeth, putting on their coats. They quickly realised how important it was to use the right type of language and that instructions have to be precise!
The role play area is now an airport and the children have enjoyed making passports and stamping them numerous times!! 
The children have also enjoyed using all the chairs to make an aeroplane which seems to have more than one pilot.
In maths we have looked at positional language and started the week by wearing blind folds and giving each other instructions to avoid crashing into things in the hall. The children then went on to create runways and roads and give each other directions on how to get to particular places. This linked nicely with our airport and instructional language.
In our topic work the children have finished off how to keep healthy by painting pictures that show them doing something to show they know how to stay healthy. They enjoyed using water colour and then enhancing their pictures with pastel – the pictures on display in the classroom!