Reception Focus 30/11/15

In Reception this week, we will be focussing on our Christmas play rehearsals ready for our performances next week and also discussing the First Christmas and what it means for those people who believe.

We will also be discussing the differences between nocturnal and diurnal animals and sorting them into sets; this carries on from our work on Owl Babies.

In Maths, we will be focussing on the concept of 'one less than' and recording a simple number sentence. 

Nursery Focus W/C 23/11/15

The children had the opportunity to vote for which book we would read this week in nursery. The choices were Goldilocks and The Three Bears or Hairy Maclary. The children voted on Hairy Maclary by Lynley Dodd.

The children will be watching a clip of a dog show and will then have the opportunity to take their own dogs on an obstacle course around the garden. The children will be learning positional language.

The children will enjoy playing in our role play vets and will be exploring different patterns of dogs.

Reception Focus W/C 23/11/15

This week in Reception we are focusing again on the story Owl Babies by Martin Waddell.
The children will be sequencing story pictures from Owl Babies and retelling the story. They will also have the opportunity to do some cooking and will be investigating the change of state from a solid to a liquid back to a solid. They will do this by making their own owl nests using shredded wheat and melted chocolate. In Maths, we will be re-focussing on one more and one less. The children will do this practically in whole class carpet time and complete our differentiated focus activity.

Nursery Focus W/C 16/11/15

This week we are continuing with our bear theme and will be reading 'We're Going on  a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen. On Tuesday, the children will be going on their own bear hunt around the school grounds. They will then enjoy making teddy toast for their snack afterwards.

On Friday, the children are invited to bring in their own teddy bear from home into nursery to share a teddy bears picnic. The children will be making sandwiches.

This week our maths focus will be exploring positional language such as over, under and through. The children will be taking part in an obstacle course in the nursery garden.

Reception Focus W/C 16/11/15

This week in Reception we will be reading the story Owl Babies by Martin Waddell.

The children will be painting owls using the stippling technique and creating owls using shapes.
In Maths, we will be focussing on size order and the vocabulary and understanding of one more and one less.

The children will also be going on an Autumn walk around our school grounds, looking at the changes in our environment and collecting natural objects they find for investigation and art work.

Nursery Focus W/C 9/11/15

This week in nursery, the children will be making big and small owl biscuits following on from our book 'Owl Babies'.

We will also be focusing on the books 'Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?' and 'Peace at Last'. The children will be exploring light and dark. They will be playing in our role play cave with torches and will be making lanterns. We will then take our lanterns with us to the woods for a story.

In addition, the children will be exploring different textures, for example, smooth and rough.

Nursery Focus W/C 2/11/15

In nursery, over the next two weeks we will be focussing on the story 'Owl Babies' by Martin Waddell.

The children will be painting pictures of owls and making them using a range of materials.

They will be listening to the story in the woods following an Autumn walk.

In Maths, the children will be talking about size using the vocabulary big and small.

Next week we will be baking owl biscuits following a recipe and exploring light and dark.

Reception Focus W/C 2/11/15

This week in Reception we will be focussing on the story of Guy Fawkes and why we have fireworks at this time of year.

The children will be making firework pictures using a range of media and colours and also learning about safety when around fireworks.

In Maths, the children will be ordering numerals to 20 and be introduced to the vocabulary more or less when comparing quantities.