Reception - Phonics and Guided Reading - Workshop For The Children's Adults.
Parents and adult carers for the children were invited into our class today to attend a Phonics and Guided Reading Workshop. They watched the children learning some Phonics and doing some writing. The children then read together in Guided Reading groups. The adults could then see how they can read with their children and help them with their phonics learning.
Nursery - Fine Motor Skills - Threading
Our fine motor focus this week has been threading! The children were provided with wooden dowels and big beads, their task, to fill up their dowels with various different shapes. This activity has been available for the children to explore all week and they have thoroughly enjoyed filling and emptying their dowels. Some children were able to use their maths knowledge to count their beads and also describe the shape and colour of each bead they used. Well done, nursery class.
Nursery - Maths - Positional Language
Linking with this weeks story, 'The three billy goats gruff', the children have been exploring a story set up while using selected positional language, 'on top' and 'under' to describe the position of the different characters. The children used their knowledge of the story to help them build on their understanding, they were able to place the troll under the bridge and vocalise 'under' they were also able to place the goats on top of the bridge and correctly identify their position.
Reception Class - Maths - Capacity
In maths this week the children have been learning about mass. They have used the balance scales to explore heavy and light objects. The children then explored the mass of different objects using cubes.
Reception Class - Counting the Buttons on the Gingerbread Man
Reception class have been using the smart board to support their learning in class. The children had to subitise or count the buttons in the gingerbread man and find the correct numeral.
Reception Class - Class Worship - Jesus Walks on Water
This week in class Worship, the children learned about the bible story of Jesus walking on water. The children acted out the story and developed an understanding of having trust in Jesus. The children also discussed how they would have felt if they were on a boat, stuck in a storm, and they saw Jesus walking towards them on water.
Nursery - Literacy - Using Story Props To Support Our Understanding of The Story's Structure
In Nursery class this week we have been reading 'Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?'. The children have been enjoying using our story props and masks to support their understanding of the story. They have been able to find and select specific masks based on the events happening on each page of our book. The children have been encouraged to vocalise the animal name and colour name, we have also explored the animal sounds and movements linked to their chosen masks.
Pre-School- PD-Fine and Gross Motor Skills
The children take part in Write Dance to develop their fine and gross motor skills. Moving to music with the ribbons and making up and down movements building on muscle strength. The children move their body into position to hold their crayons to make the movements on to paper. Developing the skills they have just learnt through dancing.
Pre-School-Maths-Take and Give 1,2,3
In maths this week we have been filling Grandma's basket for Little Red Riding Hood to take it to her. The children selected their own fruit and vegetables and then counted them with 1:1 correspondance. We then asked the children to take one item out of each basket and as they did this they needed to count each item and then stop. We then moved to two and three items counting and stopping as we went. Children also counted in number sequence in this activity.
Reception - RE - Diwali
To finish our unit on Christmas, we learnt about another festival that celebrates light in our world, Diwali. The children learnt about different sources of light and talked about how light does overcome darkness. We then had fun with candles, glow sticks and torches and sang a simple Diwali song.
Nursery - Maths - Categorising Objects By Colour
In Nursery class we have been working on colour recognition, the children have been exploring the malleable table throughout the week to find objects of different colors and sort them into the correct category. The children have really progressed throughout the week and have become more confident when naming, finding and sorting different coloured objects. Well done, Nursery class!
Reception - Class Worship - Jesus Feeds the 5000
This morning the children learned about the story of Jesus feeding the 5000. We discussed how we would have felt if Jesus shared out our lunch to thousands of people, and we considered the things Jesus might say to us. Jack shared out some breadsticks with the class as we thought about this story.
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