This week we will be helping Santa design, make and deliver his parcels in our Santa's workshop. The children will be creating their own toy designsbrowsing the Argos catalogue for ideas and comparing toys we get now
to those children received many many years ago. We will be photographing our toys and then pricing them to sell when we turn the workshop into Santa's toyshop next week.
Phonics
We will be recapping all the sounds we have learned in phase two and three this half term. Practising our segmenting and blending skills and reading words and sentences hidden around the classroom. The children have done exceptionally well and will be looking at a new set of sounds after Christmas, can we ask that you spend time reading with your child as often as possible to help them consolidate what they have learned so far.
Literacy and Topic
We will be concentrating on learning the Christmas story, retelling and role-playing the story in our Nativity role-play area and sequencing and verbally recalling the facts from the story. We will be looking into why we celebrate Christmas? We will also be continuing to study the Traditions of Christmas, the toys we give and receive as Christmas presents as well as writing out our Christmas cards.
Numeracy
We will be doing lots of Christmas maths- printing patterns for wrapping paper, counting Santa's and presents looking at 1 more and 1 less than and practising our counting forwards, backwards and in 2's, 5's and 10's.
SECRET SCHOOL TRIP!!
This week we will be informing the children of our pending school trip on Friday 10th December!!! We will put a notice on the message board and blog when we have informed the children so SSShhh we still need you to keep it a secret a little longer.... This will be very exciting for them and we will be getting ready for this trip with the children learning about old and new toys as the children will be taking a step back in time when they enter Abbey House Museum.
Mainly this week will involve lots of Christmas play practice and singing and plenty of Christmas crafts and most of all fun.... Don't forget to top it off an amazing visit to see Santa. the children will have their letters to give him that they would have written in class this week!!!
How very exciting!!
The Reception Team
6 comments:
Thanks for such detailed updates on what is happening in school. It really helps us to understand what Kaeden's telling us about, when he goes on his random "Can you know Mam......." followed by the things he has learned in school.
Have a good week and hope the trip goes well.
That is great to here... let us know if there is anything else we can do to improve our communication with you at home!!
What time does the trip arrive back on Friday please?
we are leaving Abbey House at 3:15pm - so we hope to be back at school at 3:45pm!! :)
jack retold the christmas story the other day and said baby jesus lived in the stable in methleyhem!!!bless him, its lovely to hear him talk about the story of Christmas. Cant wait for the nativity!!What instrument are they playing??
they are playing a little of everything!! They are the offical Reception Band!!lol :)
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