Week 12 in Class Ra

Class: Reception Year: 2022 - 2023

What a fantastic week in Reception. On Monday we had a visit from the dentist and we spoke about healthy foods and the importance of brushing twice a day.

This week we have started a new book The Jolly Christmas Postman. We have discussed greeting cards and why we send cards to loved ones. We even created our own post office in the classroom and posted letters for the postman to come and deliver. We designed and wrote invitations to our buddies in Year 6 inviting them to our Christmas Nativity. In the Jolly Christmas Postman he visits lots of fairy tale characters so we read Humpty Dumpty and Little Red Riding Hood. Next week we are going to act out Little Red Riding Hood in our class.

In Literacy we wrote sentences about characters from The Jolly Christmas Postman for example “I can see Red”. We practised our letter formation and finger spaces. In Phonics we looked at words ending in “s” and plurals. We have been practising our tricky words “we”, “me” and “be”. We have also been reading sentences and spoke about what a question mark means in a sentence. We played the game 'Change It' where we changed graphemes and digraphs in words to create different words so “chip” could become “ship”.

In Science we investigated why it rains and used actions to show how the rain clouds are formed. We also discussed how paper is made and the importance of recycling paper for the environment.

In Numeracy we learnt more than and fewer than. We used stamps to make our own Numberblock stampolines. Outside, we used balls to knock down skittles in our partners. We spoke about who had knocked down more and fewer. On Friday we went for a shape hunt around the classroom. We compared two shapes together asking what is different about the shapes and what is the same. We also ordered 1 to 5 using our cutting out and sticking skills.

On Friday it was our Christmas Fair and we enjoyed playing games and meeting Father Christmas in the grotto.

Thank you to blue group for sharing their show and tell bags with us. Next week there will be no show and tell.

This week’s VIP has been Ava. Ava always tries her best in maths and phonics lessons and is a kind friend to others. Well done Ava!

I hope you have a lovely weekend and we will see you on Monday for more Christmas fun!