Autumn 2: week 4

November 27, 2015 | sgoring

What another wonderful week we have had. We are definitely getting into the Christmas spirit by making Christmas crafts, practising for the Christmas play and using our Christmas role play area.

In Literacy we wrote a letter to Father Christmas telling him what we might like for Christmas. We think he will be very impressed as our writing is looking superb.

In Maths we looked at 2D shapes. We named these and learnt about their properties including how many edges and corners they have. We went on a shape hunt to identify different shapes:

Here are some other things we got up to this week in our child initiated learning:

Next week our theme for show and tell is My favourite book. The star boys are as follows:

Monday: Gautam

Tuesday: Harry

Wednesday: Ishan

Thursday: Kanyi

Friday: Leo

Have a great weekend!

Reception Oak

Autumn 2: week 3

November 20, 2015 | sgoring

We began our week on Monday in our own clothes for Mufti, thank you for the chocolate donations. In relation to our topic of Houses and Buildings we learnt about famous buildings and we wrote about our favourites from all over the world.

On Tuesday we had a fantastic science workshop and we learnt how to do some interesting experiments using things found in our kitchens.

During phonics we continued to learn new letter sounds. When writing captions and sentences we focused on finger spaces between words.

In maths we learnt about number 20. We recapped all our numbers up to and including 20 by looking at our formation and ordering.

In Expressive Arts and Design we began making Christmas tree decorations. We are also enjoying learning our Christmas songs in our music lessons.

Here are some other things we got up to this week:

“It’s a question mark!”

Please find below our star boys. Please note, Monday’s theme will continue to be bringing in an item related to Houses and Buildings.
The new theme beginning on Tuesday will be talking about our favourite books.

Monday: Zain
Tuesday: Aarav
Wednesday: Arjun
Thursday: Babaseyi
Friday: Francesco

We hope you enjoyed the Christmas Fair today, have a lovely weekend.

Reception Oak

Autumn 2: week 2

November 14, 2015 | sgoring

In relation to our theme of ‘House and Buildings’ we began our week by discussing what our dream houses will be. We had some imaginative ideas such as an ‘aeroplane home’ and a caravan. The children wrote about the features of their dream houses.

We also started our week with a special assembly delivered by Mrs Mehta and Mr Shah to the whole of Pre Prep:

In Maths we continued looking at the teen numbers. We applied our knowledge of forming numbers 8 and 9 within 18 and 19. Furthermore, we practised counting using one to one correspondence and we looked at addition sums within 19. IMG_0072[1]

In Phonics we started our next set of letter sounds. We practised our segmenting and blending to spell simple words. We also explored building some sentences, looking at capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

Wednesday was a busy day as we celebrated Diwali, Remembrance day and Aarav’s Birthday. It was noted just how beautifully reception sat during the Remembrance service with the whole school during a time of silence and reflection.

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Here are some other things we got up to this week:

Enjoying counting to 100!

Our theme for show and tell is ‘Houses and Buildings’. Next week’s star boys are as follows:

Monday: Rudy

Tuesday: Ryan

Wednesday: Sachin

Thursday: Tomi

Friday: Zachary

Have a lovely weekend.

Reception Oak

Autumn 2: week 1

November 6, 2015 | sgoring

It has been lovely to see the children again after a well deserved rest. They have come back raring to learn and they continue to be a wonderful class.

In Understanding the World and Literacy we introduced our new topic of ‘Houses and Buildings’. The boys created some excellent house booklets listing the names of people who live in their homes.