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.