Class 2

After reading ‘Leaf Man’ followed by ‘A Superpower like mine’ we decided to make our own leaf creatures and give them superpowers that come from the inside. These super powers were

✨ resilience

✨ Good listening

✨ Braveness

✨ Patience

✨ Creativeness – using our imagination

✨ Kindness

We created our own AMAZING leaf creatures, used our imagination and made a story up about our creatures, including their superpowers which came from the inside.

Ask your child all about their leaf creatures and ask them what superpowers they had and why.

We have been reading We’re going in a Leaf hunt

We have observed and discussed the changes we observe in our garden, the leaves are falling from the trees, the weather is getting colder, rainy, windy, misty but still sunny, we need warmer clothes, the leaves are various colours, animals hibernate in autumn and we know Halloween happens in autumn, but it’s yet to come…

We have been reading and retelling SUPERTATO… we then designed and made our own Superveg and super fruit.

We then discovered that the evil pea had been sneaking around in our classroom and freezing our vegetables!!!! We needed to think of a plan in order to rescue the veg…

”We can use hot water to melt it” – Leo

“My mam has a hair dryer that’s hot to melt ice.” – Isabella

“A hammer will smash it” – Lewi

”It’s sad it’s not hot anymore that might of worked.” Holly

Each week in reception we have a number focus, we focus on this number for the whole week and ensure the children have a deep understanding of that number. Recognising the number, counting objects of the amount, counting physical movements of the amount, recognising one more and one less, understanding what the number is made up of etc.

This week our number was 3!

After we had a secure understanding of three, we created a number poster for 1, 2 and 3. I am so proud and amazed at Class 2’s incredible understanding of the numbers we have currently learnt.

This week we have looked at the various zones of regulation and discussed the feelings we feel when we are in a certain area. We talked about different ways of regulating our emotions to get us back into the green area.

In our classroom we have a Zones if Regulation area where the children can put themselves on a zone and we can talk about how we can help them get back to the green zone.

Teaching self regulation is sooo important as it teaches our children how to monitor their feelings and behaviour and how to respond in an appropriate way as well as teaching them how to look after their mental health.

We then used some emotion pebbles to discuss various feelings and talk about what we can do if we are no longer in the green zone and no longer feeling happy/calm etc. We know how super important it is to look after our brains and bodies. We talked about taking deep breaths, counting to 20, moving our bodies, speaking to someone we trust, doing something you enjoy, hugging someone you love, squeezing a fidget toy or a teddy, having a chill out etc.

This week we have introduced our book voting station, each day the children choose which book they would like to read at story time and the book with the most votes will be ready at story time before we go home.

The benefits for our children of a book voting station

Promotes an enjoyment of reading

Promotes democracy, teaching our children that their opinions are important and their thoughts are valued

We have the power to make choices as individuals

Encourages children to discuss their opinions

Exploring our new classroom and settling in to new routines

Hi everyone!

Hope you have all had an amazing summer. I am so excited to see you all tomorrow and to welcome you all to our lovely reception and start a new term full of fun!!

Just a reminder, tomorrow morning we start at 8:45 and will meet in the yard. I will come out to collect your children where I’ll take them into school.

Any questions just drop me a message

Mrs Aldcroft