Here's to 2011

We'd like to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a super New Year!!

Miss Lambert, Mrs Steel, Mrs Friar and Mrs Chin.

Merry Christmas and all that.......

......stuff!
Well we have had an amazingly busy last week of term with our dress rehearsal for the whole school followed by our performance of 'Star of Wonder' to parents, carers and grandparents. The children worked incredibly hard to learn their lines and all the songs and despite a few technical hitches (!) it all went fabulously!
Thank you all for supporting us and providing all those super costumes. I'm sure you will agree that they all looked amazing.
Thank you too to the parents who have let us know how much they enjoyed the show. We are incredibly proud of all the children and what they have achieved.

Wednesday saw our class party and a treat for us all, a visiting pantomime performance of Peter Pan. The children were mesmerised and well done to Leo who joined in with the cast giving amazing directions for Peter Pan to rescue Wendy!

On Thursday we joined the rest of the school in the Hall for the Carol service and on Friday we had a fun filled day, culminating in Carols around the tree.

Sadly we have had a few children ill over the last week - we all hope you are feeling much better now and look forward to seeing you ......we've really missed you all!

....and we're still busy making salt dough decorations.

Look how busy we've been.......

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Keywords for last week to practice reading and writing:
in, go, going, said, look, this

New keywords:
you, am, had, this, away, can

You know it's winter when.....

...your window ledge is full of wellies! This is a deja
vu moment from last January when we had snow
for three weeks!

Thank you for your patience at drop off and
collection times whilst we all help out with
the wellingtons!

What we've been up to today....

Despite the weather, we've had a fabulous day in Reception. This morning the children made a start on sewing some fabulous Christmas decorations. A huge thank you to Mrs Friar who spent last night cutting out felt shapes and threading needles!

This afternoon Mrs Chin took over the fabulous sewing and our intrepid baking team, led by Mrs Friar trekked to the annexe and made us all some lovely jam tarts!

Snowy weather

The children have been really excited about all the lovely white stuff that has fallen from the sky this week! Mrs Friar and Mrs Chin have braved the weather and brought in some super snow which the children have really enjoyed investigating!

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Baking in Reception

We have been baking our own celebration buns....and sharing them at our party today.

Diwali

Listen to a few of the children talking about Diwali....

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keywords this week: this, is, for, like, and, said

next weeks keywords will be: go, going, said, me, the, this


Well done to our achievers this week and a big cheer for all the children who can now fasten their own coats!

Clay diva pots

The children have made their own diva pots from clay this week and have painted and decorated them! Well done to Daisy who was our achiever of the week for being super creative!

Coconut Barfi

Well done to this week's bakers. They created traditional coconut
barfi sweets to share with their friends!

More creativity!

Clay diva pots in the process of being moulded and shaped.....

...and a few of the party lanterns that the children have made.

Hindu creativity in Reception!

We are really impressed with the children's hands on creativity this week, have a look at our Diva pots and our box modelled Hindu temple!

Reception baking

This week the children worked with Mrs Friar and Mrs Chin to decorate bicuits with super Rangoli patterns.

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This week we have been learning the sounds ‘zz’ as in fizz buzz, whizz etc and ‘ff’ as in huff, puff, cuff etc. Our keywords have been was, the, went, we, put, on .


Next week we will be looking at words with ‘sh’ and ‘ch in them.ship, shop, chip, chop. our keywords will be this, is, for, like, and, said.

Diwali Masks

The children had a really creative time this week making their own Rama and Sita masks!

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This week we have been learning the sounds 'ss' and 'll'
Next week the children will be introduced to the sounds 'ff'' and 'zz'

High frequency words so far this half term (please practice reading and writing!)

like, look, he, this, see, it, was, the, went, we, put, on

Thank you for your support!

Our very own Guy Fawkes......!!

Fabulous Reception work

Thank you to Mrs Friar for putting up this super display.

Listen to what the children know about Guy Fawkes

Here's a video we will be sharing with the children this week

Fabulous holiday homework

Well done and thank you to everybody in Reception who has created
their own representation of Bonfire night!

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Ahead of Halloween.....

It's been getting a bit spooky in Reception! Well done to Mrs Friar and all our super creative children!

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Baking is back!!

The finished product and a baker in action!

Our houses, on our street.....

Thank you to Mrs Friar for creating this super display of the children's work.

Pom poms!

This week the children have been learning about the wonderful things that Grandmas can do. Sadly we don't have time to teach them all to knit, but we have been making super pom poms with wool!

Have a look at these.....

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More family trees....

Family Tree

As part of our topic work, we asked the children to complete a simple family tree for homework. We have had some amazing work back in!!

Here are some examples. If your family tree had photographs on it, we are not able to upload it into the blog, but it will be on display in our classroom.

Listen to the reasons why some of our grandads are special.....

More gorgeous grandad pictures!

My Grandpa

This week we are sharing the story 'My Grandpa is amazing' by Nick Butterworth. Here are some oil pastel portraits of some of our fabulous grandads!

Rod puppets

The children have been making rod puppets of their brother or sister.....just have a look at some of our fabulous examples!

Some of this week's super writing!

Sounds of the week, tricky words and high frequency words

THANK YOU to all the parents and carers who are supporting our work in class and encouraging their children to practice their sounds and high frequency words. We are really impressed with the progress that the children have made over the last four weeks and your support is invaluable.

We have also listened to some fabulous readers and again the extra practice the children undertake at home really does have a massive impact on their reading. We are sure you are equally impressed!

The sounds for next week are:

w (as in wig, wag etc)
j (as in jog, jot etc)
n (as in not, nip etc)
e (as in egg, net etc)

and the high frequency words are: I/is/a/can/big/the

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.....and in their own words!

My Brother

This week we are sharing the story of My Brother by Anthony Browne. The children have been working with Miss Lambert and Mrs Steel to act out some imaginary family role-play and tell us what it is about their families and brothers in particular that are so super......

I am the daddy, I tell everybody off! All these live here (pointing to the other children in the group) - Harvey
I am the brother called Alfie - Harry
My family can ride a bike....my brother the one with the black hair - Lucas
I am the dog. I like dogs...I'm going to stay in bed! - Leo
My mum can cook meals - Libby
My brother...on a skateboard. He goes upside down - Alexander

Matthew - my brother can skate a skateboard.
Guy - she (my sister) can ride a bike and do gymnastics. She's cool!
Ben - my sister can run fast (waving his arms to demonstrate) this fast!
Jasmine - I've got a sister, she's five. She goes to work

What do some of the children say about their mum?

My mum can do the shopping (Harvey)

My mummy can make food (Harry)

My mum loves me (Alex)

My mum can put me a DVD on (Libby)

My mum can play football (Leo)

My mum can hoover (Lucas)

My mum can read (Finlay)

My mum can take pictures of me (Louie)

My mum gives me loads of cuddles (Taylor)

My mum can run fast (Ben)

It just goes to show what a lot of talented mums we have!

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Words of the week:
TRICKY words I/all/the/my/no/go

HIGH FREQUENCY words I/my/am/all/the/a

SOUNDS of the week b (as in bat, ball) f (as in fit) h (as in hop, hug) and u (as in up, umbrella)

And even more....!

Even more amazing writing!