Class 1

This week we have enjoyed celebrating Halloween by taking part in lots of activities themed around Halloween.

At the beginning of the week we enjoyed creating our own Autumn Wreaths using the objects we had collected from outside. We used glue to ensure the objects stuck and added bats to make them scarier.

We have also been rescuing spiders from the orange slime in our classroom! We needed to very carefully removed the spiders using the tweezers, thankfully we saved them all!

We have also been creating our own Witches Potions. After reading “Room on the Broom” we were all very eccvoted to create our own potions using a huge cauldron and chanting our spell. We wrote our potions down, stored them and exclaimed “iggerty, ziggerty, zaggerty, ZOOM!”, together we made a new story appear into our classroom!

This week Class 1 we’re visited by our local school nurses. They came in to talk to us about how to keep ourselves clean and healthy. We discussed washing our hands, we know we need to wash our hands throughout the day to prevent germs from spreading to our friends and families.
To test how germs spread we passed a glittery ball and then checked our hands to see what germs had been left on our hands, we were shocked! To help us learn how to wash our hands properly the nurses sang a song for us to use when washing our hands to make sure we clean all parts of our hands.

We wash our hands after the toilet – Eden

Wash hands before dinner – Thomas

We the also learned about the importance of looking after our teeth, this doesn’t just include brushing them but watching how many sugary things we eat during the day.

Chocolate only one or two a week – Gray

Brush your teeth two times a day – Kezia

We all learned so much about looking after ourselves and can’t wait to show everyone how good we are at washing our hands and brushing our teeth!

This week was Class 1’s first assembly in Reception!

We all did such an amazing job sharing all of the fun facts we have learned about the Autumn season.

In Autumn the leaves change to brown, red, orange or yellow – Layton

It gets colder in Autumn! – Eden

Animals get food to hide for Winter – Aria

We all used our big voices to ensure our grown ups could hear us when we were speaking.

This week we have started learning about how we have changed as we have grown up. We know that when we were babies we couldn’t do lots for ourselves but now that we are bigger we can do more.

When I was a baby mammy had to feed me milk – Lucas

I had to crawl because I couldn’t walk – Iiona

Babies need people to look after them – Miya

We read a lovely story together as a class called I am big, it showed us the story of a young boy who wanted to grow bigger so that he could do the same activities his bigger brother was doing.

We talked about how we have already grown up from being a baby because we are now children.

I can eat my food all by myself – Henry
I can put my clothes on by myself – Aria

We have also enjoyed looking at our old baby photos and guessing who they were, we could see how much we have changed and grown since we were babies.

This week Class 1 have been reading Supertato, a story about a super hero vegetable! We all loved the story and made our own story map to help us retell the story.

We have been able to sort some evil peas into the correct amounts on different plates. We had to do this very carefully as if we squeezed the tweezers too hard we would squash the peas and they wouldn’t be counted on our plates.

This is 7 so I need 7 peas – Piper

I put 5 peas on the plate! – Gray

We have also been designing our own super hero vegetables and labelling them using the initial sounds we can here! We have had some amazing heroes designed!

Class 1 have enjoyed taking part in our first music lesson this week. We always start our lessons by listening to a song we may or may not know. We then had a discussion about whether we liked the music and why;

Layton – I liked the instruments

Iiona – I liked the singing because it was loud

Aria – I didn’t like the singing because it sounded silly

We then needed to use our listening ears carefully to try and hear the beat of a song, we then tried to follow the best by patting our knees at the right time. To end our music lesson we then practised singing pat-a-cake, we used actions to help us remember the words.

This week in Class 1 we have started taking part in our PE lessons, we have thoroughly enjoyed being able to get active during our school day!

This week we have been working on how we are able to move our bodies in different ways whilst also making a circle. We needed to think carefully when moving around the hall to ensure we didn’t bump into anyone or loose our balance.

We practised moving around on our tippy toes, using long strides, crawling on all fours and crawling along on our tummy’s!

Super work!

Hi everyone!

I hope you have all had an incredible summer. I can’t wait to see you all tomorrow and hear about all of the fun activities you have been up to. I am excited to welcome you into your Reception class and start your new school year!

Just a reminder, that we will be starting at 8:45am tomorrow and will meet you all in the yard. I will come out to collect your children and bring them into school.

If you have any queries before starting tomorrow please drop me a message.

Mrs Bruce