Thursday 7 December 2017

Reception Focus 11.12.17



This week in Reception we will be dressing up in our costumes and performing our Christmas play 'Here we go Around the Christmas Tree' to parents on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. We look forward to seeing you all then.


In Literacy, the children will continue writing their letters to Santa and will be posting them in our role play post office.


In Maths, we will be discussing weight. The children will be weighing a variety of different sized presents.


In phonics, we will be learning the new sounds 'v' and 'w'.


In Topic, we will be continuing with our Christmas theme.
Reception-Weekly-Focus

Tuesday 5 December 2017

Nursery focus: Week ending 1.12.17

This week in Nursery we have been thinking about Christmas and writing our letters to Father Christmas.
The children discussed what they knew about the celebration of Christmas giving their ideas within their key group. They then decided what they would like to have looking through catalogues and magazines and choosing some toys to stick onto their letter to Santa.

The children have also used different textures to make their own Christmas tree and this is now displayed in our corridor for all to see.

The children were also very excited to begin opening our advent calendar and also had a great amount of fun decorating our tree!

The Christmas celebrations are in full swing in Nursery!





Nursery focus: week ending 24.11.17




This week in Nursery we enjoyed everything 'Paw Patrol.'
The children all know the characters and watch this on the television, so we taught about dogs  and how to care for them; we looked at being a rescuer and the best way to save a dog stuck up the tree. Here, the children were taught how to use a winch and a rope to bring the dog safely down.
We also studied different ramps and investigated forces, exploring which cars travelled fastest down a ramp. The children discovered that the 'higher it is, the faster it goes.'

We also read the story 'Hairy Maclary' and looked at the different breeds of dogs. The children chose their favourite and gave reasons as why they liked that breed.

In our creative area, the children explored different colours and made pictures of Marshall and Chase.