We have had an amazing first week back in Reception. Well done to all of the children for coming back to school so well! They have come back really settled and have remembered all our school expectations and routines. We have had some very excited children this week as we have started to learn all …
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Reception – Apple and Lime
Dec 13 2024
It’s showtime!
In topic time this week we have continued our focus on Antarctica and penguins. We read the story ‘Blue Penguin’ and focused on how everyone is different and why this makes us special. We were very lucky to have letters delivered to the school from the Blue Penguin. We practised our phonics skills to write …
Dec 06 2024
PENGUIN HUDDLE!
Reception have really enjoyed the storybook ‘Penguin Huddle’ this week in topic lessons. We spent time making story predictions and discussed the thoughts and feelings of the characters. We then thought about what we already knew about penguins and what else we would like to find out. We researched these questions using non-fiction books and …
Nov 29 2024
NOT I!
This week in topic have been focusing on the story ‘The Little Red Hen’. At the start of the week we read the story and thought about new vocabulary that we had not heard of before e.g. ‘mill’, ‘wheat’ and ‘grain’. We then followed a simple recipe to create our own bread rolls. We then …
Nov 22 2024
Fee-fi-fo-fum!
Our story focus this week in topic has been ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We have really enjoyed reading some different versions of these stories and comparing the story events and characters. We looked at the life cycle of a bean and then planted some of our own. We have put these on the classroom windows …
Nov 15 2024
I’ll huff and i’ll puff and i’ll blow your house down!
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 …
Nov 08 2024
Run run as fast as you can!
Welcome back Apple and Lime Class! At the beginning of this half term we will be learning about traditional tales. This week we focused on the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and looked at different versions to make comparisons. We also retold the story using story maps and thought about what the characters might say …
Oct 25 2024
Happy half term!
Well done to Reception for completing their first half term at Alban City School! In Phonics this week we have had a big focus on reviewing all the phase 2 sounds that we have learnt so far. We have practised the skills for segmenting and blending when reading and writing. We have also been focusing …
Oct 18 2024
People who help us in school…
This week we spent time thinking about the people in school and how the adults help us in different ways such as keeping us safe, teaching us, cooking our lunches, fixing the school etc. We then spent time thinking about questions and why these are important. The children came up with some great questions to …
Oct 11 2024
999 Emergency!
In Maths this week the children have continued to develop their subitising skills to identify how many of something there is without counting. The children then practised showing how many using their fingers. We have also practised use of ‘perceptual’ subitising – instant recognition – by saying the number of sounds that they can hear, …