Friday 26 December 2014

Party time!

We shared our toys from home and our news.



Lots of dancing!


Warm up dancing before going into the hall for games and dancing with Years 1 and 2...

Pass the parcel and musical statues was great fun!


Busy bees...!

We enjoyed having photos taken of us with friends by the Christmas tree. We hope you liked your photo!

Lunch time was fun too. We could choose from all sorts of party food. THANK YOU for all the contributions. Much appreciated!


Fantastic party hats!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Super sharing of toys brought in too. Well done!

A fun day for all!

Miss B




Thursday 18 December 2014

Seasons greetings!

To all our reception children and their families,
We hope you have a lovely break and a nice holiday. 
Happy new year and we will see you in 2015.
Mrs Edwards, Miss Bunting, Miss Lansdale, Mrs Daniels, Mrs Harrison, Mrs Jewsbury and Mrs Aziz

Busy reception week

What a busy last week we have had. We have been busy making Christmas gifts for our families; cards, calendars, baubles and reindeer food.
We have also been completely our superhero work, weighing superheroes and making pop up puppets. We have done some instruction writing on how we made our puppets.


Friday 5 December 2014

Friday Post 8: Stick Man!


It was fun sharing this story on Friday. (One of Miss B's favourites)


Many of us were keen to create our very own 'Stick' characters.


We used all sorts of materials to wrap, twist, tie, attach and fix.


This stick man is running fast.


I've made a kite for him.


This is Stick Ladylove!


Our Stick family members so far...


Well done, everyone!

Miss B






Friday Post 7

Even more rehearsing and performing...
On stage, mid story...
Grandma managed to escape!
The woodcutter saved the day!
Taking on different roles and re-enacting parts of the story with peers.
Setting out the stage with the props they required in their version of the story
Using language from the story and adding their own ideas
Knock, knock
"Who's there?"
Mr Wolf!
Grandma is rather scared...

Lots of us have created tickets for the show.



Very convincing!


Acting out parts of the story


Tuesday 25 November 2014

Anti-bullying week

This week has been anti bullying week. We enjoyed watching a puppet show about verbal bullying, and joined in with the scenarios, deciding on the right outcomes for Jenny the puppet to tackle the bullies and be happy.

We have done some work about our friends, describing them by using three positive words or sentences about things they do.



Thursday 13 November 2014

Nursery rhyme week

What a fun action packed week we have had. We have learnt lots of new nursery rhymes:
Hey diddle diddle, 5 currant buns, I hear thunder, oranges and lemons, old king cole.
We have been looking at rhyming words, sequencing stories, making masks and puppets.
Today we have had a fun day dressing up as our favourite nursery rhyme characters. This is what we looked like- 



Thursday 6 November 2014

Friday Post 4 and 5: Little Red Riding Hood

We have been focusing on this story as it linked well to work covered all about our senses. We have continued to focus on the story to develop our storytelling skills and we have been using props to support our retelling and performing abilities. We have enjoyed a music session focusing on using our voices to represent the main characters in the story ( a high pitched singing voice for Red Riding Hood and a low, chanting voice for the Wolf) and have learnt the song "Granny, what big eyes you've got..." (RRH) and "All the better to see you with..." (Wolf). Your child should be able to song some of it for you...?

Some of us have performed the story to the rest of the class already. The rest of us will be the audience members in our pretend theatre. We will be working in groups to act out the story over the next couple of Fridays. 

Also, we will be creating puppets and creating a story scene individually to help us to retell the story. We will also be playing the game What's the time Mr Wolf? This will help us with counting, numeral recognition, concept of time, writing numerals and recording using tallying.

Watch this space!

Lots of time and effort has been taken when rehearsing and acting out the story. Thank you Miss L for your input. The performances so far have been fantastic!










We have taken turns to take on different roles too: Red Riding Hood, The wolf, the woodcutter, Grandma and the mother. This was really good fun and has helped us to understand what happens in the story and when. We have also been able to recall what happened at key parts in the structure of the story.

Here we are busy cutting and sticking whilst creating our own stories based on Red Riding Hood. 



Some excellent focusing and attention here as well as creative thinking. Careful cutting too! I am looking forward to hearing even more about your alternative stories!

And making cakes to take to Grandma's house...


Great teamwork boys. You worked so hard here!

Lots of used our cutting skills to create a mask whilst talking about parts of the story. Thank you for your help Mrs D.


Aargh! Who is this?
Where have Reception friends gone?


Here we are performing the song!


Enjoying an alternative version of the story with lots and lots of super duper rhyming!

What a busy Friday! 

Well done everyone!

Miss B