Friday 12th December

This week, the children enjoyed learning about the Christmas story and why it is special to Christians. We used props to retell the story and made links with our Twinkly Nativity play.  In maths, we explored the concept of day and night, discussing the difference and the activities that we do.  Our phonics lessons have focused on naming the letters of the alphabet and forming capital letters. There have been lots of fun festive-themed activities going on, such as gingerbread play dough, decorating trees with pom poms, making elves and much more.  Our Christmas Jumper Day was so much fun, especially with the disco to finish the day off. 

Friday 5th December

Rosen class is beginning to feel festive as we start the countdown to Christmas! We have enjoyed some Christmas-themed activities, such as decorating our tree, painting Christmas puddings and building a Christmas tree window display. We loved playing in the sensory tray with winter spiced rice too. On Tuesday we had a visit from the Essex Road safety group who talked to us and our parents about staying safe when crossing the road. We learnt a song to remind us to 'Stop, Look, Listen and Think!'  Our highlight this week was writing letters to Santa and posting these on Friday in the post box on Villa Road. We hope Santa gets our letters in time!

 

Friday 28th November

This week we enjoyed learning about the painting 'A Regatta on the Grand Canal' by Canaletto, an 18^th Century painter from Venice.  We spent time looking at the way the artist had made marks to show flowing water and waves and explored wavy marks in wax crayon, then painted over a water-coloured wash of blues and greens. Later, we collaged boats to go onto to our wax paintings. We also took part in a drawing challenge, sketching a gondola in detail and painted our own version of Canaletto’s Grand Canal. We enjoyed lots of drama activities throughout the week. We used our bodies to build a gondola and role-played taking a ride on a gondola. We also used boxes, planks and fabric to build canal boats.

To expand our knowledge further, we have included some problem-solving and science in our Art mantel work. We created waterways with tinfoil and ducting. We had a problem when we wanted to turn a corner, so we experimented by moulding tinfoil in different ways.

A great arty week had by all. 

 

Friday 21st November

We have enjoyed Maths this week, finding 1 more and 1 less of a number by being aliens in a spaceship.  We sang 'Five little men in a flying saucer' and counted each time to see what happened when one alien flew away. Our story focus this week was How to Catch a Star.  We had lots of ideas about how we could catch a star, such as climbing a very long ladder, jumping out of a helicopter and even flying in a rocket. In class, we have been busy building rockets, collecting space rocks with tweezers and painting planets and stars.  In the garden we kept warm by moving around lots. We really enjoyed making long streamers and developing our big arm movements with waves, twirls and flicks.  A cold but very busy week in Rosen.

Friday 7th November

We have started this half-term off with a `bang!`, lots of talking and activities focused on fireworks. The children made junk model rockets, sparklers, and explored chalk on black paper to draw firework explosions. We made colour explosions in shaving foam which was very messy but loads of fun. 

Rosen class learnt a '5th November' rhyme off by heart, so look out for it on Tapestry soon.

A new activity carousel was introduced to our timetable this week. Each day we have a go at an activity that develops our handwriting, fine motor skills and maths knowledge. It was very successful and great to see some independent learning. 

On Tuesday, Mrs Loader and Mr Godwin showed new parents and children around our school. They spent some time in EYFS with us and Mrs Christy said she was super proud of how we showed respect and kindness to each other and to our visitors. 

 

Friday 17th October

This week our focus story has been 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'. We have enjoyed learning the story and doing lot of tiger themed activities. We have enjoyed rolling marbles to paint tiger stripes, making tiger masks, having tiger tea parties outside and making and decorating playdough cookies. We continued to explore weighing in our play and have started to look at numbers and amounts in our maths sessions. I am sure you are amazed at how many letter sounds we now know and we are even starting to blend and read words. Great job, Rosen class.

Friday 10th September

We have thoroughly enjoyed using our imagination this week to role-play taking a ride on The Naughty Bus.  We took turns being the driver and made tickets for the passengers. It was great fun!  We also got creative painting bus pictures and each made a bus puppet to retell the story. Keep an eye out on Tapestry for our own bus adventure videos.  In Maths, we looked at patterns and had a ago at making repeating patterns with different items around our classroom. You could try making a repeating pattern at home with Lego bricks or leaves and conkers. What would come next in your pattern? 

Friday 26th September

We have really been working hard with our phonics this week. We have learnt lots of new graphemes and practised writing them in different ways.  We have learnt to identify initial sounds and have even started to blend sounds into words.

In Maths, we have enjoyed using our thinking brains to identify groups and sort items into sets.  PE in the hall was lots of fun as we learnt about using the space to move and our bodies to balance.  

Friday 19th September

This week we have started our phonics sessions and maths sessions. Both have gone very well and the children have been highly engaged. The children have learnt new letter sounds s, a, t, p, i and have become very good at spotting them around the environment. Our story focus this week is Elmer and we have enjoyed talking about belonging, linking that with drawing our family. 

There have been lots of interesting activities to explore this week. Particular favourites have been making gloop and mixing petals and leaves, scooping and pouring with coloured rice and making concoctions in the mud kitchen. As the weather was rather miserable on Wednesday, we were unable to get to the Hall for PE so we all got involved in Cosmic Kids Yoga. It was great fun! Look out for some phonics homework coming home on Friday.  You will be impressed with the phonemes we have learnt. 

 

 

Friday 12th September

The children have had a busy, fun and very successful first week in Rosen class.  We have explored the classrooms and the Reception garden, enjoyed 2 PE lessons, experienced lunch in the hall and played on the playground with the older children.  We have also enjoyed daily Dough Disco sessions, serving our own snacks and story time. Wow, with so much new learning, Rosen class have done amazingly well and have already become more independent. We are very proud teachers.