Dinner Today 10/01/11

Today the children had a lovely social time, eating creamy ham pasta, garlic bread along with broccoli and potatoes followed by chocolate rice krispie cakes!!

Numeracy websites

Hi,

I have been asked recently to recommend some good websites the children can access at home. These ones are easy to access independently; give them a try and let me know what you think and how the children get on!! They are Topmarks.co.uk and ICT Games.com. Links below:






www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=1

www.ictgames.com/resources

I hope this helps.........

Miss S

Weekly Overview week beginning 10th Jan 2011

Last week was a great first week back - the children all came back settled and ready for the new term - a fab start to Spring term!!

This week we will begin looking at Chinese New Year, we will be learning about the story of Chinese New Year and finding out which animals we all are. I believe that I am a goat and Miss Skidmore is a pig - sorry I mean a boar!! :) We will also be learning about Chinese New Year traditions, such as the red envelopes and the Chinese Dragon Dance!! We will also be looking at Chinese food - if anybody has any chopsticks we could borrow that would be great!

During literacy this week we will begin looking at our first Traditional Tale - The Gingerbread Man - we will be doing lots of role play and hot seating (This is where the children pretend to be one of the characters and they answer questions in role.) We will sequencing the story and taking part in lots of shared reading!!

Phonics this week sees the start of Phase 3!! We will be learning the consonant digraph ch-sh-th-ng and learning to read the Tricky Words 'said' and 'was'! We will also be continuing with caption writing and incorporating our new sounds and words!!

Numeracy this week will focus on time - we will be sequencing the school day and also introducing telling the time beginning with 'o' clock! We will be counting in 5's as we count around the clock and talking about how many minutes in a hour!!!

Our SEAL statement this week is 'I am patient and I persist with my work' so will be talking lots about keeping on going even when things get a little tough!

PE this week will see the start of Gymnastics - we will be thinking about how we can move our bodies to travel around equipment - we hope to get the apparatus out - which we think the children will love!!

Just a quick note on dinner times - After a few trails last week - we are now moving back to our normal dinnertime, in fact a little earlier at 11:30am - which in lots of ways is better as we have a more balanced morning and afternoon - rather that a super long morning followed by a very short afternoon! The children are enjoying eating at the new tables and are becoming very independent at serving their own food!! I will take some photo's this week and post on here!!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and we shall see you all tomorrow!!

Thanks

The Reception Team

P.S Mr Oulton - Alice bought H's PE bag home by mistake!! It's all washed and ironed and ready to go! :)

Dinner Today 7th Jan

I'm really sorry I'm not sure what dinner was today - as I was not there!! With it being Friday though, I suspect it was fish and chips with peas/beans - and maybe pudding was something with custard??? Maybe Mrs Rymer or Miss Fotopoulou could leave a comment and enlighten us all? :)

Dinner Today 6th Jan

Dinner Today was:

Pizza, wedges, cauliflower and sweetcorn

Pudding was Jam Sponge and Custard!

Dinner Today 4th Jan 2011

Dinner today was Chicken Curry with broccoli, carrots and cauliflower.

Pudding was Sponge and Custard!!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everybody we hope you've had a great holiday!! I'm sure you're all ready to get back to normal and back to the routine - I know we are!!!

So this week.....yet again lots to do so here goes with a brief overview!

We begin this term with a brief look at winter where we will be reading some winter stories, looking at the film 'March of the Penguins' and finding out some facts about penguins - we will be thinking about the weather, although we hope that the snow and ice does not return!! We will also be looking at 'Happy Feet', if anybody has a copy of the DVD - could we borrow it as we would like to show the children a couple of short extracts as a fascinator!

We are getting ready to start Phase 3 phonics - but before we do we are going to recap all the phase 2 work we did last term - so this week will involve lots of blending and segmenting using the phase 2 phonemes and we will be writing short captions using the 4 finger check - this is 4 points that they need to remember when writing:

1. Capital letter


2. Full Stop


3. Finger spaces


4. Does it make sense

Numeracy this week we will be singing our days of the week song and reading and writing numerals. Our main focus will be finding the missing number along a number line and using all our problem solving skills to do this - we will be encouraging the children to describe how they know what the missing number is e.g. 'I know it's 12 because 12 comes after 11 and before 13.'

This week also sees the beginning of our new dinnertime 'family service'. We will now be going for dinner at 12:30pm with Year 6. We will be using our new dining tables and chairs and Mrs Rymer and Miss Fotopoulou will continue to have dinner with the children. There is also a change to myself and Miss Skidmore's PPA time and this will now be on a Friday morning. Miss Russell will continue to cover Athens class and Miss Gott will be covering New York class. I will also be out of class on a Tuesday afternoon and Miss Russell will cover this time too.

We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow - early nights all round I think! :)

Thank you

The Reception Team