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Welcome to Reception!
This year your child will be taught by...
Teacher - Mrs Howard
Teaching support - Mrs Baker
Key Worker - Mrs Tubby
We are so excited to be teaching your children this year!
Our topics this year are :-
Autumn - Do you want to be friends?/What happens when I fall asleep?
Spring - Can I switch it on?/Will you read me a story?
Summer - What's that sounds?/Are we there yet?
Phonics resources
A squash and a squeeze was our book for maths and art day. We practiced number sentences by working out how many animal legs in total and got crafty with making farm animals
Well done Reception for starting the golden mile - we were a little tired after but they kept on going
We love having the guinea pigs visit and learning how to look after them
We took to the skies to see how far our planes flew and measured them using a grid
All aboard the Reception bus
Thank you to Mrs Scott who visited us and introduced us to some instruments and we had a little go
We made potions and thought about what might happen if you used them
Reception designed and made their own instruments before performing in an orchestra
We practised our football skills during PE
Life cycles - We received 5 tiny hungry caterpillars and have loved watching the changes to watch a beautiful butterfly come out of its chrysalis
To help understand Eid, we designed Mehdi patterns and decorations
What sounds do instruments make? We explored some instruments to see if we could see and hear the vibrations
We made our own instruments to perform in our orchestra
We used art to explore the Christians beliefs of the creation story
Football skills - This half term we have used magic words such as passing, dribbling, opposition, accuracy and matches. Fantastic learning Reception
What’s that sound? We went on a listening walk and listed the sounds that we could hear
I can perform a magic trick. We learnt our number bonds to 5 and impressed our friends by magically knowing how many blocks were hiding behind their back
We looked at different ways of fixing materials together to make a Handel and Gretel cottage
Fantastic problem solving whilst making an obstacle course
Easter hunt - we looked for clues to solve the Easter puzzle
We travelled to the jungle and experimented how to move our body in different ways to imitate a snake
Red Nose Day - we made people smile by being in our own chalk drawings
March 2021 - Teambuilding...we designed and created our own castles
March 2021 - We made our own Supertato’s and captured the Evil pea
March 2021 - Welcome back Reception... we missed you
Suggested remote learning timetable
Suggested PE ideas
Extra resources for remote learning
Remote learning 01.03.2021
Remote learning 22.02.21
Remote learning 08.02.21
Remote learning 01.02.21
Remote learning W/C 25.01.21
Remote learning W/C 18.01.21
Remote Learning W/C 11.01.21
Remote learning W/C 04.01.21
We quickly put on our coats when we saw the snow was falling and tried to catch snowflakes on our tongue
We joined in with the Hopton tradition of the children dressing the Christmas tree with baubles
We explored light and dark in our space centre
Diwali - We compared the Diwali festival with Christmas. We looked at Rangoli patterns and made them into lanterns
We loved looking after the guinea pigs
Great jumping in PE and learning the skills of tuck and star jumps
The children have been working on their fine motor skills
Who has the longest foot? The children drew around each others feet and compared the sizes
Pumpkin Exploration
The rain doesn't stop us!
Starting the day with some dough disco
September 2020 - Settling in
