In our traditional tales topic this week we have focused on the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We started the week thinking about all the traditional tales we already knew that have a wolf character in them. We then read different versions of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ stories to compare the similarities and differences. We also chose one of our favourite characters to draw and add simple labels to and created some wanted posters to find the wolf!
In discovery time the children loved making new houses for the three little pigs in lots of different ways, for example junk modelling, construction bricks, natural resources and duplo. In the creation station we enjoyed making our own versions of the third little pigs stew for the wolf to fall into.
We had two other themes that we focused on this week. We spoke about what Remembrance Day is and why we have the two minute silence. Then in discovery time, we made our own poppy pictures. Our other theme was Friendship Friday as it was Anti-bullying week. We discussed how to be a good friend and what we can do with our kind hands. Each class made a different poster to focus on this.
In Phonics we have introduced the new digraphs ch, th, ng, nk. We have been segmenting and blending for reading and writing. We are starting to focus on developing the children’s writing and using the skills taught to hear the sounds in order. We have also discussed the importance of reading back our writing to check for any mistakes. We then looked at sentence structure and discussed full stops and capital letters.
PE this week was a little different… We had Jamie (Kye and Braydon’s Dad) deliver a fantastic session teaching us all about how to be healthy! He taught us there are 3 main things we need to do: exercise, eat well and sleep. Thank you so much Jamie – we loved it!
In Maths this week we have been learning about ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’. We started the week by comparing amounts of objects. We then introduced the children to ‘numicon’ and how this can be used to compare amounts. The children are becoming confident in using our stem sentences to help them reason and explain. An example of our stem sentence ‘5 is more than 3’ and ‘2 is fewer than 3’.
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Reception Team 🙂
