Over the Easter break....

Homework has been sent out today (along with something special for Mother's Day!) All children need to know the letter names and the sounds of the alphabet. Keywords to recap are: an, as, at, if, in, is. Children should be able to sound out, read and write these independently in a sentence. After the break we will be teaching the following words: children, just, help, little, said, there. Please support your child in learning to read and write all their keywords. Thank you for your continued support - have a lovely break.

Little Red Hen artwork

There has been some lovely artwork going on in our outdoor area today!

More brilliant homework

This week we have had some lovely postcards to the Little Red Hen, telling her what we did over the weekend. here are a few examples. Well done to all our Reception superstars.

Super homework

Reception art club

As you may be aware, Mrs Chin and the Reception art club were our achievers this week. If you haven't seen the fabulous outcomes, please do have a look below. Well done to everybody involved and thank you to Mrs Austin-Lee who generously gave her time to help the children. WOW!!

News round up

Click here for link to this week's newsletter:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=74730539

And here for the homework:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=74730633

Parents consultations are Monday and Tuesday next week. We are looking forward to meeting you all and sharing your children's fabulous achievements as well as their next steps.

Please note - there will be no clubs running next week.

Have a fabulous weekend.

Outdoor area

It has been amazing weather today and the children have taken full advantage of the outdoor area. We've had large scale painting, weaving, construction, planting and building going on....and a lovely breeze for our super windmill!
Here's hoping the sun shines tomorrow too............

Adjectives!

In our literacy session today we have been thinking about adjectives (describing words) to tell people about the fruits in Handa's basket. Here are a few super ideas......
Pineapple - It's spiky, the top is green, in fact it's all green (Jacob) It's hard and prickly (Leo) Very spiky, for eating, good for you (Libby)
Orange - take the skin off, circle shape, feels smooth (Harry) Cold, round and orange coloured (Guy)
Mango - green, roundish, shaped like a rugby ball (Jacob) Big, got a spike in it, bit cold, bit warm (Lucas) Hard it would be ouch to eat (Alex)
Banana - big like a mouth with skin (Harry) Yellow, straight with an upside down smile (Libby)
Avocado - Black and crushy (Lucas) Rolly, soft and hard (Cagri) Black, ball shaped and lumpy (Jacob)

And here's the finished display!

Handa's Surprise homework

Thank you to everybody who has brought in their amazing homework. Here are a few pieces to show you!

Handa's Surprise homework

Here are a few pictures:

Archimboldo pictures

The children have been having a go at making some Archimboldo pictures - using vegetables to represent facial features. Here are a few examples.

And as they are becoming so proficient at peeling and chopping vegetables, they might be able to make you some pictures whilst they help prepare Sunday lunch!

If you do have any examples, please send them in and I can put them on the blog. Thank you.

Olivers Vegetables

The children have been working very hard this week with our lovely ladies to make a collage of Olivers Grandpa's vegetable garden. We are really amazed at the brilliant outcome - well done to everybody who has been involved!

News round up

Thank you to all our children for making it such an amazing week in Reception. I hope you will agree that they looked brilliant in their red clothes! We've had a small number of children off today - get well soon and hope to see you back on Monday.

I know a couple of parents have mysteriously missing homework (!) so please click here for a link:http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=74040381

There is a link on the newsletter and homework sheets to the story of Handa we will be sharing with the children next week, please do try to have a look together. The full newsletter can be accessed here:http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=74040894


Parent consultation letters were sent out yesterday - please can you complete and return them as soon as possible so that appointments can be allocated? Thank you.

Well done to our super stars this week - Max and Reece and to Lucas and Kieran who were our brilliant achievers.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Red Nose Day

Thank you to all our children for joining in with our Red Nose day celebrations. Just look at all this red......

Next Week

...we will be continuing with our Food topic but will be sharing the story of Handa's Surprise. In fact Mrs Friar is so sure that you will be bringing in amazing homework on Monday, she's got the display board and small world area ready for you!!

We have some lovely African artifacts to look at, some traditional African instruments and some role-play masks to enjoy. Please help us make our display even more fabulous with your homework.

Click here for a link to a POWERPOINT version of the story:http://www.cumbriagridforlearning.org.uk/getfile.php?src=1967/Handa%92s+Surprise.ppt

And the final few!

Thank you to everybody who handed homework in......you are superstars!

And even more.....

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And here are a few highlights from this week's homework. Well done everybody and keep up the amazing work!