Week 16 in Class R

Class: Reception Year: 2023 - 2024

Welcome back everyone,

This week, we have introduced our new topic ‘Space and Sky’. We started by asking the class what they already know about space and what they would like to find out.  We have focused on learning the planets this week and how they orbit around the Sun. On Friday we focused on the planet Mars and used adjectives such as “big” and “red” to describe it. We also modelled how the planets orbit around the Sun in the classroom.

In Literacy, this week the children have wrote sentences about space. We have read a variety of books, fiction and non-fiction, and the class have been writing sentences about what we can see in space. 

In Maths this week, the children have consolidated their understanding of the composition of 5. Composing and decomposing numbers involves the children investigating part–part–whole relations, e.g. seeing that 5 can be made of 3 and 2. We have based this learning on the nursery rhyme 5 little speckled frogs, looking at how many frogs are on the log and how many are on the pool. 

In P.E we have started our first unit of gymnastics. This week the children learnt how to rock on different parts of their body. We also learnt the importance of balancing with our arms and how we need to do this gymnastics. Next week in P.E we will learn how to perform a log and egg roll with control.

Next week we will be learning about rockets. Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week!

Show and Tell

Green - 19th Jan

Red- 26th Jan

Yellow - 9th Feb