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Reception Class Autumn Term Information 2 - 07.11.2024

Reception Class Autumn Term Information - 05.09.2024

Forest School Information - 05.09.24  

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6 December 2024

We have been very excited this week as we put up a Christmas tree in our classroom. We added baubles, lights and tinsel, it looks beautiful.

We decorated our home corner with Christmas decorations and cooked a delicious Christmas dinner! We have been retelling familiar stories and making up our own using the small world resources.

In maths we have been investigating composing and decomposing number 5 using baubles.

‘3 and 2 make 5 altogether’ Arthur

‘4 and 1 make 5 altogether’ Sophia 

At Forest School we made Santa sticks and used the saw to cut slices of wood to turn into tree decorations.

29 November 2024

This week we started our preparations for our Nativity show. We have read the story of the first Christmas and retold it in our own words using the soft toy characters. We have also been practising singing, dancing and acting in preparation for our show.

We are very proud of the Christmas tree we have made and decorated by cutting, glueing, sticking and glittering! The tree is on display in Chatteris church as part of the Chatteris lights and tree festival.

The loose parts have been popular this week. We have been created our own pictures using a variety of loose parts  including Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, a donkey, houses and a cat. 

15 November 2024

This week we found out about Remembrance Day which is a special day in November that gives people the chance to remember those who fought and lost their lives during the war and to honour their memory. We made our own poppies, painted poppy scenes and made poppies with the loose parts.

We also helped support Children in Need by donating money which will support children all over the UK. We had a lot of fun making Pudsey masks, measuring the height of Pudsey’s friends, painting and cutting out Pudsey bears and practising our counting skills by adding the correct amount of spots to Pudsey.

25 October 2024

We have been learning about Diwali. It is a festival celebrated by Hindus in India and all around the world. This year Diwali starts on 31^st October. It is known as the festival of lights.

We created Rangoli patterns by painting, chalking and using the loose parts.

We made Diva lamps by moulding clay into a pot shape. We left them to dry hard and then painted and decorated them with glitter. Once they were finished, we lit candles and sang a Diwali song.

We listened to the story of Rama and Sita and decorated hands with mehndi patterns.

We also made pumpkin soup. We cut the pumpkin up, peeled and chopped the onions. Then we put all the ingredients into a big pan and boiled them until they were soft.

We then warmed up the soup on the fire at Forest School, it was delicious!

18 October 2024

We have been learning about autumn this week. We enjoyed reading Leaf Man. It follows the journey of leaf man as he is blown across the land. A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.

We have been learning about autumn this week. We enjoyed reading Leaf Man. It follows the journey of leaf man as he is blown across the land. A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.

We then had a lot of fun creating our own leaf people using the collected leaves.

We also created artwork to represent autumn including leaf printing and rubbing, painting autumn trees, finger printing autumn trees and sewing leaves.

Forest school was a lot of fun, we climbed trees, drilled holes in conkers and used our muscles to go across the rope bridge which was very wobbly!

11 October 2024

We have been learning all about apples this week. We found out that apples grow on trees and the seeds can be planted to grow new trees. We saved some apple seeds from our snack apples and planted them. We look forward to watching them grow.

We talked about things we can make with apples and then made an apple and blackberry crumble. We prepared the apples by peeling off the skin and chopping them up. We then put the apples and blackberries in a dish, added the crumble and cooked it. Then we ate it, it was delicious!

We also enjoyed printing with apples and colour mixing green to paint apples.

At forest school we used apples to make bird feeders. We removed the core and pushed pumpkin seeds into the skin. Then we pushed a stick through the apple and tied them up in the trees.

4 October 2024

This week we have been learning about people who help us, at home, in school and the wider community.

‘My Mummy helps me learn my phonemes at home’ George F

‘My Mummy helps my Grandad. She drives him to the doctors’- Erin

‘Police Officers get bad guys’- Jaxon

‘Firefighters put fires out and have long ladders to go up’’- Caleb

We used the junk modelling boxes to make emergency vehicles. We talked about our ideas, used our imagination, practised our scissor skills and developed our skills to attach things together.

We had a lot of fun building emergency vehicles with the large loose parts and roleplaying people who help us outside. 

We started drawing club this week to help us develop our language and writing. Mrs Riches was very impressed with our phonic knowledge and imagination.

27 September 2024

We were very excited to go to Forest School for the first time. We met the Grandmother Tree, learnt about keeping ourselves safe in the forest and the important rule of ‘No pick, no lick, be careful with a stick’. We explored the forest area and can’t wait for next week!

Jumping and splashing in the muddy puddle was so much fun!

We also found a lot of worms and measured them to find out which was the longest and which was the shortest.

We noticed some of the leaves had fallen from the trees and were all different colours, sizes and shapes.

Snack time with hot chocolate was a lovely treat to warm us up.

20 September 2024

This week we have been thinking about our families. We have shared the books The Great Big Book of Families and Families, Families, Families. We found out that there are many kinds of families, but they are all special to us.

We enjoyed drawing and talking about our families in a variety of ways.

We also talked about our class being our school family and painted our portraits to display. We looked at our different features and talked about how we have many similarities and differences but are all special.

13 September 2024

We have welcomed all our new Reception children into school and have been so proud of how they have settled in.

We have been learning school routines such as sitting on the carpet for registration, lining up for lunch and what we need to do at tidy up time. All the children are settling well into school life, making new friends and having so much fun!