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Have a great half term!

We have come to the end of another great half term.

The boys have all worked very hard and had lots of fun along the way.

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 to make o’clock times. We have also been looking at half past so please practise this too.

 

In Literacy the boys and wrote their own creative stories remembering to include a beginning, middle and ending. We had some very exciting events in our stories.

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

At the end of the week we waved goodbye to our butterflies. The boys have really enjoyed having them in class and they have taken good care of them.

 

The starboys after half term are as follows:

Monday:Nathaniel

Tuesday: Rishaan

Wednesday: Riyan

Thursday: Seb

Friday: Shayan

Enjoy your half term!

Miss Goring and Miss Barr

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Money and art workshop

It has been another busy week in Reception. At the start of the week, the boys experienced a wonderful art workshop. They used recycled plastic bottles and lids to create flower and leaf sculptures. There were so many donated bottles that the boys also had the chance to make additional models.

The finished product

 

During Maths we revisited looking at coins to 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 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

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 are changing in their chrysalides and their emergence is imminent…

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

 

The star boys for next week are as follows. Please bring in a lifecycle of a living thing:

Monday: Harry

Tuesday: Jack

Wednesday: Jake N

Thursday: Jake O

Friday: James

 

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Goring and Miss Barr

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Caterpillars and broad beans

This week we have enjoyed watching each caterpillar change into their chrysalis and watching 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 and sequenced 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. Or count backwards 9,8,7,6 and 5.

The show and tell theme for next week is ‘Growing’. Please bring in a life cycle of a living theme:

Monday: Seb (a song or rhyme)

Tuesday: Shayan (a song or rhyme)

Wednesday: Andrew

Thursday: Ayaan

Friday: Etem

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Goring and Miss Barr

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Maths workshop

RGM enjoyed taking part in an exciting maths workshops. They listened carefully to the instructions and worked in pairs to create triangles, pyramids and gigantic constructions!

 

 

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Growing

We have started our new topic of Growing, which has been wonderful in this sunny weather. The boys have been introduced to our class caterpillars, which they named: Rainbow, Alex, Luca and Ted.

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 Maths this week we have learnt about number bonds to 10. We also explored bonds to 20 and some to 100.

The boys have enjoyed learning this song below: After each number bond they sung it the other way around e.g. 1+9, 9+1.

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 and 14+6=20.

The starboys next week are as follows:

Monday: Bank holiday

Tuesday: James

Wednesday: Nathaniel

Thursday: Rishaan

Friday: Riyan

 

Have a lovely weekend-enjoy the sunshine!

Miss Goring and Miss Barr