Here in St Hilda’s School Harpenden Reception Class we have been having a fabulous first term. Since September our levels of independence have come on in leaps and bounds. We can all follow the daily classroom routines of looking after our own belongings, following instructions, navigating our way around school amongst many other things. We are happy in both our work and play.
During Literacy we have all learnt to recognise and say at least 42 sounds. We then began to blend these sounds together to read words and we all take reading home to practise with our families each night. Some of the stories we are beginning to read are very funny and make us giggle. We are also using our sound skills to break down words in order to be able to write them. This takes a lot of thought as we have to remember to form our letters correctly which we have been learning to do during our handwriting lessons.
We really enjoyed both watching and listening to some fireworks on the board and decided to write our own Fireworks Sounds Poems. We thought about different words to describe the sounds that a firework makes such as
Pop
Weeeeee
Bang
Boom
Wizzzzzz
Sparkle
Zoom
We each worked very hard to hear the correct sounds in these words and wrote them as a poem. We also used paint and chalks to create some marvellous pieces of artwork.
This term we also had our first turn to join in with Outdoor Explorers. It was a rather wet and muddy day but we dressed up in our warm and waterproof clothes and put on our wellies. Mrs Bugryniec set us the task of finding all sorts of different shapes, colours and sizes of leaves. We had great fun exploring and comparing our leaves.
