What an amazing week we have had in Reception! On Monday, we realised we had filled up our Jewel Jar with 164 jewels, so celebrated with a Christmas party. We loved playing Musical Chairs and Pin the nose on Rudolph. We played Pass the Parcel. Each layer had a forfeit, including telling a Christmas joke, …
We were so excited when we arrived at Nursery today as it was the Junior Christmas Party! We all made a crown to wear to the party in ‘Busy Fingers’ and then we did some dancing to warm up for the main event! At the party we danced and played games. After that we suddenly …
The countdown is on for Christmas Day! On Monday in Busy Fingers, we used little buttons to follow the top of the Three Kings’ crowns. We also painted our hands with white paint and couldn’t wait to turn them into something special later on in the week. In Literacy, we took the letters we had …
Today we began another busy week of Christmas activities. In Busy Fingers we played a memory board game with Mrs Holdstock. We took turns beautifully, (PSE). We then went to the hall to watch the Junior Show. We sat so nicely and really enjoyed the show with all the singing and dancing. We then walked …
Christmas is coming! We are so excited to be starting our Christmas preparations in Reception this week. On Monday in Busy Fingers, we painted half of a cylinder red but didn’t know what we would be using them for later on in the week! We also painted our hands green and made lots of lovely …
This week we are continuing with our ‘Christmas’ topic work. We began the day with lots of Busy Finger activities. We decorated our salt dough shapes with paint, glue and glitter, which will look beautiful on our trees at home, (EAD and PD). We also shared some favourite Christmas stories with Mrs Holdstock as we …
We had a lovely week in Reception! On Monday, in Literacy we revisited the phoneme ‘y’. We decorated our own yo-yos, made little books about ‘y’ and worked hard in our Jolly Phonics workbooks. In Mathematics, we are learning about positional language. We loved listening to ‘Where’s Spot?’ and then discovering that Spot had gone …
Are those sleigh bells we can hear? We can’t tell you I’m afraid as for the foreseeable future many of our English / RE lessons will be taking place under a cloud of secrecy. We can however let you know that we have been working very hard and have been applying all our knowledge of …
We have enjoyed another fun week in Reception. On Monday, we started the week by focusing on Remembrance Day. We talked about why we wear poppies and what they stand for. We really enjoyed watching the ‘Lest we forget’ theatre show in the hall with the big girls. We really learnt a lot about World …
This week our topic focus is ‘Autumn’. In Busy Fingers we began our day by painting different types of leaves with bright colours. We then pressed the painted leaves onto paper and found that they left some amazing prints, (EAD and UW). Today we had the second of our Jolly Phonics lessons. We learnt our …
