Croeso - Welcome to Reception

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Reception at the beach!

we went on an aeroplane to somewhere hot and visited the beach. We had ice lollies, donkey rides, boat trips and went in the sea! 

Reception and Nursery Sports Afternoon
This afternoon we had our sports races. We all looked super sporty and tried our best in the races. We had Sprint, Bean bag on bat, bean bag on head and the obstacle races.  Everyone was well behaved and we all had fun.  
We hope you enjoy watching our race videos. 

This week we have been painting planter pots with a partner, planting broad beans and lots of different wild flowers.

This week in Reception we have been exploring 3D shapes, we escaped the web in the forest. We have been making our own spider animations on Purple Mash and we have been making our own versions of the spider story.

In the past few weeks we have been making number lines in Numeracy, making hapus 😀 and trist ☹️ faces for Welsh and our new topic is Spiders! 🕷🕸

A rainy forest school afternoon.

This week in forest school it was rainy and muddy, we enjoyed going in the muddy puddles in our wellies.
We also made some spider webs in small groups.  It’s very tricky being a spider weaving round and round.  (I’m sorry Reception but I don’t have everyone’s web photos but you all did a great job 🕷🕸). 

Fun in the forest

This week in the forest we made maps of the area like the ones the robbers had in What the Ladybird Heard. We worked with a partner and shared our finished maps with everyone. 

We had great fun this afternoon in our PE lesson with Steve. We played 3 games:

• we moved around the yard in different ways
• we played a Toy Story action game

we played a frog hopping game.

We can’t wait until next week. 

World Book Day

We celebrated World Book Day in Reception and read the Julia Donaldson ‘Tales from Acorn Wood’ books.  We did a scavenger book hunt and drew who we would like to share a story with.  

Dathlu Dydd Gwŷl Dewi - Celebrating St David’s Day

We had fun celebrating St David’s Day in Reception, learning about St David, listening to Welsh music and making flags and daffodils. 

Hello video from Mrs Griffith to follow

This week's book is Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson

Blended Learning week commencing 4th January 2020

Dear parents and carers, 

Please find below an overview for the week as well as activity sheets to go along with the activities. There is also a 'Happy New Year' video saying hello to the children and showing parents how to find the White Rose Maths activities for this week. 

On the overview plan any activities in red have resources which can be found on the website page for Reception. Activities in purple can be found as 2Dos on Purple Mash - (some of these may be released daily).  For this week I will add activities daily but this may change in the coming weeks.  I will be available online every afternoon this week if you require any support. 

Stay safe

Mrs Griffith 

Christmas in Reception

This week we decorated the tree. Doesn’t it look amazing?🎄

This week in Reception:                                        w/c 23rd November

• we loved our first PE session
• we did some movement and then we worked on our own mats
• we went on a shape hunt for squares and rectangles
• we did our onw black and white square pictures like Kandinsky's Trente painting
• we have been authors and have written our own Pete the Cat stories

W/C 16th November - This week we have been:

• playing the triangle.
• playing lots of different Number games.
• practising our handwriting ‘C’.
• decorating ‘Y Cwtsh’ our Welsh area.

w/c 9th November -   This week we:  

• joined in the 2 minute silence to remember the soldiers
• made poppies
• made Autumn crowns in the forest
• watched a 'Don't touch, tell' presentation about not touching medicines, needles and bleach etc at home
• practised MCKGOD sounds and blended them with SATPIN to make words
• taken part in Children In Need activities including a daily 5 min Joe Wicks workout
• looked at Kandinsky paintings in detail 
• looked for Melyn items around the classroom

What a busy first week back!  We have:                                                   

• had our first forest school session where we explored the forest and built dens
• safely watched a firework display on the big screen 
• made our own fireworks
• looked at paintings by an artist called Kandinsky
• painted circles like Kandinsky's circle painting
• made a HUGE picture with circles that could be seen from an aeroplane
• been on a circle hunt around the classroom
• looked for Glas items around the classroom

W/c 19th October

This week we have been:

• making collections of 1 and 2 objects 
• clapping and tapping patterns on the music sticks
• leaf printing
• making hedgehogs out of autumn leaves 
• reading a book on Reading Planet

W/c 5th October 

This week we have:

• used the laptops to go on RM Easimaths
• used the IPads to practise our letter sounds
• used the words taller and shorter when building towers
• made pictures with 2D shapes 
• been authors and written our own Brown Bear story book
• blended our letter sounds to read words. 

This week we have been:                             w/c 28 September 

• painting animals from our Brown Bear story
• sorting and spotting which one doesn't belong to a set
• sorting big and small objects
• comparing amounts using the words more, less and fewer
• playing games in the outdoor classroom
• using big words like 'technican' and 'unfortunately‘
• dancing to 'I like to Move It Move It!’

And then we had a special visitor!

This week we have:                                    w/c 21st September

• stayed in school for our lunch
• had fun in the rain (and the dry) with umbrellas
• drawn on a HUGE box
• written our Brown Bear story on what we think is the biggest piece of paper in the world
• decorated our Christmas cards to be sent off to be made into cards
• been sorting and matching objects
• played matching pairs and SNAP
• had the story of Pete the Cat rocking in his school shoes. 

This week we have:                              w/c 14th Sept

• walked sensibly and calmly for a fire alarm practise
• learnt and retold the story ‘Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see? using animal masks
• made placemats ready for when we stay for lunch
• looked at some colourful paintings (abstract art) and said what we could see
• told Mrs Griffith a story of our own
• played with our shadows outside 

What a busy week!
This week we have:

• come into school all by ourselves
• made rainbows
• made up our own song - 5 little aliens in a flying saucer
• played inside and outside with our friends
• shared the toys
• eaten our snack at Snack cafe time 
• been for a walk around the school grounds
• worked hard like busy bees
• danced to our Friday song.  (Mmmbop by Hanson).