Celebrating maths week with a parents workshop

On Thursday morning we celebrated our maths week by inviting parents to a stay and play maths workshop. We had an amazing turn out, thank you so much to all some parents who came to practise some maths skills with their child. Please let us know what you thought of the session.

It was great to see children and parents to explore maths through games, ICT, painting, sand, shapes, books and other resources. We worked on shapes, space, numbers, measures, counting... Here are a few of our photos....more are on our class page on the school website...

We're going on a bear hunt...

On Fridays in Reception Class, we have been enjoying sharing this story and have taken part in different activities within many aspects of learning. Well done! Miss B:-)

Take a look...

Using props to help develop our storytelling skills

Using language from the story

We are using lots of language from the story and are very excited about going to the theatre.

So far, we have enjoyed learning some actions, movements and signing to perform the story as a group. We have all taken part very well! 

"We're going on a bear hunt..."

"We're not scared!"

 

"Oh no!"

"We've got to go through it!

"A cave!"

"Tiptoe"

It has been fun going on our very own bear hunts in our outdoor area too and using props to help to relive the experience through drama. We have taken photos and videos of our efforts, which we will be sharing together and appraising each others' efforts (peer assessment).

We have also created our very own story maps to represent the story. We have used our early writing skills to label our maps.

We shared our efforts with the class!

Excellent effort!

Miss B:-)

Links to Literacy: Communication & Language; Literacy: Reading and Writing; Expressive Arts and Design: Exploring media and materials, Being imaginative; Personal, social and emotional development; Physical development

Street Feet and measuring

This week we have been using the construction to look at measuring. We have made really tall towers, tall enough to reach the ceiling.

We have made different shapes out of our train tracks, and been practising how to share and take turns with the small world boxes.

We have been comparing sizes to say which is longer or shorter and counting how many carriages our vehicles have.

We have been using the computers to practise our literacy and number skills.

We have also had the opportunity to use the Street Feet resources. We have been working outside to learn about being safe on the roads. What should we go, how do we cross the roads, what we should do at traffic lights and what should we look out for....