Fairytales theme - Cinderella week

This week we have started our fairytales theme, looking at the story of Cinderella. We have listened to the story, sequenced the events in the story and written our own invitations for a party or ball. We have been very creative, developing our knowledge of shapes and made masks, swords, picture frames or mirrors.

In literacy we have been focusing on forming our letters correctly, writing our key words and beginning to make sentences with them. And in maths we have been consolidating our knowledge of 2D shapes and learning some new 3D shapes.

Mersey vales got talent week

This week we have been sharing our talents. We have been talking about what we are good at. We shared our talents in circle time -

Some children showed their best karate moves, explaining really well what karate is and what the coloured belts mean. 

Some children showed us their hopping skills and could hop for 25 hops.

Some children said they were creative and made a super fireworks model. Telling us in great detail how they made it and what it's for.

Some children showed us their lovely dance moves.

And their beautiful ballet moves.

We sang our favourite nursery rhymes.

And showed us their best swimming moves.

Final week in reception

Our last week of the Autumn term has been busy. We have been finishing off our Christmas gifts for home, as well as continuing to develop our maths and literacy skills. We have been exploring all areas of the classroom and have produced some amazing results. Here are a few photos:

Our first week back starts on Tuesday 5th January. It will be our themed week, Mersey Vale's got Talent. Children need to have a think about a talent they are particularly proud of; karate, writing, dancing, singing, football, reading, music, telling jokes, doing magic.... We will be holding auditions in class time, so you need to feel confident performing in front of class and then the two best performances will be chosen to showcase their talents in front of the whole school in assembly on the Friday. Good luck!!

Finally I'd like to wish all our friends who celebrate Christmas a very Merry time, and to everyone have a lovely break, be safe and we'll see you in the New Year. Mrs Edwards :-) 

Challenge Fridays

Every Friday, we take part in different challenges...

Check out how busy we have been so far...!

Well done everyone!

Miss Bunting:-)

Creating a story map to represent the story

Combining groups of objects, adding and finding the total

Recording our findings too

Retelling a familiar story using descriptive language

Acting out the story in groups

Using props creatively and for a purpose, e.g. white sheet for snow

Even more number work!

Working as a team - persevering when challenge arises

Talking about the story and using props to act it out

Engaging in open ended activity and using senses to explore and experiment. This really helps us to develop fine and gross motor skills (linked to writing, especially).

Diwali - using fine motor skills to create a rangoli pattern

 Exploring measures and handling tools with increasing control 

 Using shapes for tasks - creating diwas

Consolidating counting skills and developing ability to form numerals correctly

Adding sets of objects and working out the total

Phonics and handwriting challenge - roll, say, write and I spy...

Developing fine motor skills and coordination 

Learning about Diwali

Creating a story with others

Selecting and using tools to write for a purpose 

Anti bullying week

We have has a great week learning about anti bullying.we have been talking about what bullying is, what we should do if we see it happening and who should we talk to.

This is our writing.

In maths we have been looking at saying what is one less than a given number.

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...