Week 7

Lesson: EYFS

Class: Reception Year: 2024 - 2025

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Week 7 in Reception 2024

We have had a lovely week in Reception, during which the children have continued to take part in many crafts, maths, mark-making, and early writing activities.   

This week we have:

  • Listened to our class story ‘Pattan's Pumpkin’ and wrote sentences about the animals and plants that we can see Pattan taking care of 
  • Learnt about India and compared it to Holmes Chapel
  • Investigated whether pumpkins really do float like in our story (they do!)
  • Created our own images of Pumpkins in various different ways
  • In maths, the children have been developing their positional language (Next to, behind, on top of, under). They have also been ordering various different things by size using vocabulary such as big, small, tall, short, biggest, and smallest. 
  • In Phonics, we have been reviewing all the sounds (graphemes and phonemes) we have learned so far and doing our phonics assessments for Autumn 1. Parents will have received these in the children's reading folders. We will go over what we do in Phonics and the results of these assessments during parents' evening. 
  • We have come to school wearing red to 'show racism the red card'
  • Parents have been invited into our classrooms to look at our Christmas card   
  • Enjoyed having a story read to us by our mystery reader 
  • In P.E. we have practised throwing and catching a ball in an underarm pass (make sure your partner is looking at you and has their hands formed into a basket, then you know they are ready) 
  • As part of learning about India, we have explored what foods grow in hotter climates (especially the foods that our character Pattan grows in our story). We tasted Mango, Pineapple, Rice pudding with nutmeg, Bell peppers and Beetroot. (the children were amazing at giving these different foods a try!)

Next week

We will be learning all about Diwali 

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We look forward to seeing you all during parents' evening next week. Remember that Friday is an inset day. 

Have a great weekend.

From all of the Reception team.