Nursery Focus W/C 7.11.16

This week in Nursery, we will continue to focus on fireworks. The children loved making edible sparklers using bread sticks, melted chocolate and sprinkles last week so we are continuing the cooking theme by getting the children to make their own firework fairy cake. The will also have the chance to create a firework splatter painting and use the ICT programme 'Purple Mash' to create their own firework picture on the interactive whiteboard.
We will be introducing basic 2d shapes to the children as well: circle, triangle, rectangle and square. The children will be making shape pictures and learning a couple of shape songs throughout the week. 

Reception focus 7.11.16

This week in Reception, we will be beginning our topic All About Me. We will begin with a special visit from a baby and their mother, so giving the children first hand experience of discussing what a baby needs and looking at how they change as they grow older. The children will then sequence pictures of different stages of human growth and also sort objects a baby might need compared to a child. The children will have the opportunity to care for babies in the role play and wash and dress them in the Messy Play area.

In Maths, the children will be learning how to partition groups of 5 and learn how to write an addition number sentence.

In phonics, the children will be learning the next three sounds g, o, c and learning how to read and write them correctly.

Parents, don't forget that the second phonics workshop is on Wednesday 9th November at 9.15am in the Small Hall.

 

Reception focus - 31.10.16

This week in Reception the children will be learning about the celebrations of Diwali and Guy Fawkes Night. They will learning about the characters within each story and the moral behind each celebration, as well as creating some exciting art work. 

We will also be celebrating with hot chocolate and marshmallows around the fire pit on Friday. 

In phonics the children will be recapping sounds already taught and segmenting and blending to read words.

In Maths the children will be learning to count in 10s and order numerals to 20.

Parents, don't forget the Phonics Workshop is on Friday 4th November at 2.15pm in the Small Hall.

 

Reception focus - 17.10.16 - Science Week

This week at a Hacton is Science Week to help raise the profile of investigations and explorations. 

In the Early Years we will be focussing on the theme of Weather and Seasons. The children will be partaking in a wide range of explorations with all of the adults in Early Years and making shaving foam rain clouds, a tornado in a bottle, as well as going on an Autumn Walk around the school grounds and planting some bulbs for the new school garden. 

In addition, the children will be learning about repeating patterns in Maths and consolidating sounds learnt so far in phonics. We will be building words and learning to segment and blend them to read and write simple CVC words. 

 

Reception focus 10.10.16

This week in Reception we will be focussing on phonics and 2D shape.
The children will be going on a Shape Hunt around the school identifying 2D shapes they find within the environment. They will be investigating shape through their play in a range of ways including making shape pictures, models and digging for them in the sand pit.

In phonics we will be reinforcing the first three sounds taught already as well as learning p, i, and n. In P.E the children will be learning about positional language and applying it whilst using apparatus.  

Reception begin phonics

The children have begun their formal phonics sessions this week. Today the children learnt the letter 's'. They thought about what begins with the sound, learnt the Jolly Phonics song and made their first attempt at writing the letter. 

Here are a few pictures of Zebra class hard at work. 

What a fabulous start to writing. 

Reception focus 3.10.16

This week in Reception we are continuing our theme of 'Elmer' and reading a range of stories together. The children will be exploring colour mixing on a large and small scale, and also learning to group a set of objects to 5 and then 10.

We will be introducing phonics this week learning the first three sounds s, a and t, so children will be bringing home their first pieces of homework.