The sun finally shone for us on Friday for our exciting
Rocket Morning ! The children and parents enjoyed carrying out all the rocket
based activities and had lots of fun. It was great to have a team from
Hethersett Academy working with us. We all loved the water rockets and little
pop rockets that they helped us set off.
The children
performed our 'Trolls' dance brilliantly at the Summer Fayre on Friday evening.
They all looked so colourful and clearly enjoyed themselves. It was quite a
complex routine and we were so proud of how they remembered all the moves and
looked so confident in front of such a large audience.
This week we
have been doing some activities based on ‘The Bog Baby’ story and the children
have had lots of fun making their own dough and then creating their very own
Bog Baby to take home. We have been thinking about the sort of habitat that the
Bog Baby would be happy in. Hopefully the children will be able to find
somewhere suitable at home for their Bog Baby to live. Perhaps you could ask
your child whether they can remember the ingredients that we used to make the
Bog Baby dough ?
In letters and
sounds we have been applying our knowledge of some of the tricky vowel
diagraphs for example ‘oo’ and ‘ow’. We have been playing games in which we
have to blend the digraphs in the words to read them and trying hard to
remember to read the diagraph as one sound. We have also been continuing to
learn to read and spell our tricky words as this is so helpful when we do our
independent writing.
In maths this
week we have been continuing to focus on 3D shapes and consider their
properties when we describe and sort them. We have also been comparing and
measuring the capacity of containers.
The children have
started to draw a picture of themselves in their school uniform, looking closely
in a mirror to try to use the correct colours for their eyes and hair and
clothes. These drawings will be on the front page of your child’s report which
will be sent home later on in the term. We did the same activity back in
September when the children had just started school and the children have been
comparing their recent drawing with the one they did back in the autumn. They
are extremely proud to see how their drawing skills have improved since they
have been at school. It must be all the ‘dough disco’ we do !
The newspaper
‘Diss Express’ came to school on Wednesday to take a photo of our classes to
put in Friday’s edition. Hopefully these photos will be a lovely reminder of
the children’s time in reception.
We are
looking forward to another exciting week with our trips next week to
Gressenhall on Tuesday and the Norfolk Show on Thursday.
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