Anti-bullying week

This week has been anti bullying week. We enjoyed watching a puppet show about verbal bullying, and joined in with the scenarios, deciding on the right outcomes for Jenny the puppet to tackle the bullies and be happy.

We have done some work about our friends, describing them by using three positive words or sentences about things they do.

Nursery rhyme week

What a fun action packed week we have had. We have learnt lots of new nursery rhymes:

Hey diddle diddle, 5 currant buns, I hear thunder, oranges and lemons, old king cole.

We have been looking at rhyming words, sequencing stories, making masks and puppets.

Today we have had a fun day dressing up as our favourite nursery rhyme characters. This is what we looked like- 

Friday Post 4 and 5: Little Red Riding Hood

We have been focusing on this story as it linked well to work covered all about our senses. We have continued to focus on the story to develop our storytelling skills and we have been using props to support our retelling and performing abilities. We have enjoyed a music session focusing on using our voices to represent the main characters in the story ( a high pitched singing voice for Red Riding Hood and a low, chanting voice for the Wolf) and have learnt the song "Granny, what big eyes you've got..." (RRH) and "All the better to see you with..." (Wolf). Your child should be able to song some of it for you...?

Some of us have performed the story to the rest of the class already. The rest of us will be the audience members in our pretend theatre. We will be working in groups to act out the story over the next couple of Fridays. 

Also, we will be creating puppets and creating a story scene individually to help us to retell the story. We will also be playing the game What's the time Mr Wolf? This will help us with counting, numeral recognition, concept of time, writing numerals and recording using tallying.

Watch this space!

Lots of time and effort has been taken when rehearsing and acting out the story. Thank you Miss L for your input. The performances so far have been fantastic!

We have taken turns to take on different roles too: Red Riding Hood, The wolf, the woodcutter, Grandma and the mother. This was really good fun and has helped us to understand what happens in the story and when. We have also been able to recall what happened at key parts in the structure of the story.

Here we are busy cutting and sticking whilst creating our own stories based on Red Riding Hood. 

Some excellent focusing and attention here as well as creative thinking. Careful cutting too! I am looking forward to hearing even more about your alternative stories!

And making cakes to take to Grandma's house...

Great teamwork boys. You worked so hard here!

Lots of used our cutting skills to create a mask whilst talking about parts of the story. Thank you for your help Mrs D.

Aargh! Who is this?

Where have Reception friends gone?

Here we are performing the song!

Enjoying an alternative version of the story with lots and lots of super duper rhyming!

What a busy Friday! 

Well done everyone!

Miss B

Week two - fireworks and bonfire night week

Happy bonfire night! This week we have been doing lots of fun activities all about bonfire night and fireworks. We have learnt about the history of bonfire night and why it is celebrated. We have seen and heard lots of fireworks and used wow words in our writing to describe the sounds they make and how they look.

We have made fireworks pictures using different materials

We have made our own fireworks out of junk modelling or play dough.

We have also made fireworks out of our construction materials, and written labels for our models.