Another half term has flown by! It is hard to believe that next half term will be the final half term in Reception for our boys…

Their progress is evident in all the fantastic work they are producing. In Literacy the boys wrote their own creative stories remembering to include a beginning, middle and ending. We had some very exciting events  including witches, knights, magic portals, jungles and many more.

In Maths we revisited telling the time. The boys enjoyed making clocks and playing time games including ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’. For homework this week, could you please use the paper plates clocks sent home today to make o’clock times. We have also been looking at half past times.

Our broad bean plants have grown dramatically. Please continue to look after these at home and we look forward to seeing the updates in your bean diaries once they’re completed!

Half of RS enjoyed ‘Welly Time’. They colour matched natural materials to their colour palettes

At the end of the week we waved goodbye to our butterflies. The boys have really enjoyed having them in class and learning about the metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly:

   

The theme for show and tell is ‘Singing’. Please practise a song to perform to your class. The starboys after half term are as follows:

Monday: Blake

Tuesday: Chrisjan

Wednesday: Daniel

Thursday: Drake

Friday: Ethan

Have a well deserved half term holiday!

Mrs Starkey and Miss Barr

 

During Maths we revisited looking at coins from 1 pence to £2. The boys enjoyed practising their adding skills by playing money bingo. Each board had combinations of coins, which they rapidly added together to match different price tags. The boys also enjoyed visiting shops where they gave money and received change.They played the roles of customer and shop assistant where they could only use one coin and they worked out the difference between the coin and the price e.g. the item cost 2p but a 10p coin was given. They subtracted 2 from 10 to give the remaining 8p back. When the number was close to 10p, e.g. 7p, they found the difference by counting up. They applied this within their child initiated play too:

The Maths homework activity for this week is an online game. You can select different coins and challenges:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

You can select one coin or mixed coins. Under the ‘mixed coins’ tab you can practise giving change.

During Understanding the World we have been observing our caterpillars and broad bean plants. The boys have been amazed by the growth of their beans and it has really captured their interest. They have written excellent entries into their bean diaries. Our caterpillars have made their chrysalides and the arrival of butterflies is imminent…

The theme for show and tell next week is ‘Singing’. Please come with a song ready to sing to your class. The Starboys for next week are:

Monday: Reiss (Baby picture)

Tuesday: Sebastian F (Baby picture)

Wednesday: Sebastian S (Baby picture)

Thursday: Aarnav

Friday: Albert

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Miss Barr

 

 

This week we have enjoyed watching each caterpillar grow rapidly. We have also watched our broad bean seeds germinate! The boys have been very excited about these changes. They have written in their Bean Diaries and they have cut, sequenced and labelled the life cycle of a butterfly

In Maths we have been learning the terms ‘in between’ and ‘difference’. The boys enjoyed making human number lines and finding numbers that were in between numbers. They also used number lines to find the difference between two numbers.

To practise this at home, please lay out your number cards or use your laminated 100 square to find numbers that are in between other numbers e.g. write one number between 12 and 17. Similarly, use these laminated resources to find the difference between 2 numbers. The boys have learnt to count on from their starting number and to remember to count up to and including the last number. e.g. To find the difference between 5 and 10 count 6,7,8,9 and 10 on a number line. Or find/draw 10 objects and take away 5, how many are left?

Explore and Learn time:

The show and tell rota for next week is:

Monday: Joseph

Tuesday: Kailen

Wednesday: Kiaan

Thursday: Nathaniel

Friday: Noah

We look forward to our class breakfast on Monday!

 

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Miss Barr

We have started our new topic of Growing, which the boys are very excited by. The boys have been introduced to our class caterpillars:

We have been watching them eat, shed their exoskeletons, spin silk and grow dramatically the last few days.

We are waiting for them to finish growing and to climb to the top of their pots where they will hang from the lid in a ‘J’ shape. After this they will form their chrysalides and we will transfer them into their butterfly gardens and wait for them to emerge!

Later in the week the boys planted their own broad bean seeds. They wrote an entry into their bean diaries about how they planted their bean:

During Literacy we listened to the story ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’. The boys retold the story and their fantastic work is up on display in the classroom.

 

During Maths this week we have learnt about number bonds to 10. We also explored bonds to 20.

The boys have enjoyed learning this song below:

For the maths activity this week, can you please practise your number bonds to 10. To extend this further you can compare these to 20 by looking at the ‘ones’ in the number e.g. 4+6=10 therefore 14+6=20.

The starboys next week are as follows:

Monday: Bank holiday

Tuesday: Harvey

Wednesday: Hugo K

Thursday: Hugo S

Friday: Jacob

 

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Miss Barr