Hello, this week the children have loved exploring our outside area. Beech Class love exploring the outside and creating wonderful mud food. Thankfully they all had their special mud kitchen suits on! Some of the children also helped to scoop out a pumpkin. It was lovely to see Beech class getting involved in the outside area. This weekend, see if you can explore an outside area near you.

This week in Maths we have been learning about length and height. The children have enjoyed building towers and using our key words taller and shorter to describe them. I wonder if anyone can compare the height of their teddy bears at home?

In Jigsaw this week, we have been practising our Calm Me Time. The children have learnt how to use their breathing to make them feel calm and relaxed. Maybe Beech class can show their adults how to breathe in through their nose and breathe out the rainbow. :) 

Have a look at some of our mud kitchen chefs in action! 

Well done Beech class, another great week of learning. Have a wonderful weekend. 

Miss Weston, Mrs Kandola and Miss Dela.

What another busy week Birch class have had. This week in PE, we have been learning how to balance. We pretended we had joined the circus and needed to walk the tightrope. We learned that we needed to keep our head and eyes still and hold out our arms to keep our balance. Some of us needed an extra challenge so we tried to star jump in the middle or at the end of our equipment! It was all very exciting. Can you help us learn a new balance at home so we can demonstrate it in PE next week?

During our Jigsaw lessons this term we will be celebrating our differences. This week, we took turns to tell each other what we were good at. We noticed that some of us were good at the same things and some of were good at different things. We decided this was really good because we could all help each other learn how to become better and learn new skills.

Hello, welcome back to school. We hope you all had a wonderful half term and enjoyed your Halloween celebrations! 
They have worked really hard in their phonics lessons. this week we learnt the sounds ss, ll, ff and j. The class have been great at writing these sounds and using them to blend words. 

This week we had our first reading lesson! The children loved using their books to practise reading. We hope you enjoy reading at home this weekend. Please keep reading records in book bags so we can use them each day. 

In topic we have been learning about the past and toys. we used our baby photos to look at us now and us as a baby. We also drew pictures of what toys we like now and what toys we liked as a baby.

In Maths we have continued to practise counting. The class are great at remembering our counting rules. We have to count slowly, move the objects into a line and touch each object. See what you can count at home this weekend. 

Super work this week. Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Weston, Miss Dela and Mrs Kandola

Thursday was our WOW day. We have now finished our topic 'Incredible Me'. During our topic, we learned all about ourselves. Some of our learning included: celebrating our similarities and differences, sharing our different families and what makes them so very special to us, learning about our feelings and what we could do if we feel sad, angry and happy and learning about our five super senses. During our WOW day we ended our topic by turning ourselves into super hero's, drawing our most favourite things and making the most amazing pumpkin cakes! 

This half-term our topic is 'Incredible Me'

We have loved learning about each other and finding out about our families and our hopes and goals

We have dedicated a board in Ash Class where we have displayed drawings of our family, our height measured with string and a dream jar.

We thought about what we want to achieve by the time we leave Reception - we will be asking parents for their hopes for their child soon!

This week during our topic lessons, we have been learning all about our senses. We have used our eyes to look for things in our environment, our ears to listen to sounds outside and identify different animal noises, our touch to find, rough, smooth, bumpy, hard and soft objects and taste to identify, sweet, sour and spicy foods. We have great fun tasting some new foods but some of us needed a drink after tasting the spicy radishes!

Kind hands are the best! During our Jigsaw lesson, we listened to a story all about how we can use our hands to communicate positively and to help others. Our story showed us that sometimes when we are angry our hands are unkind. Together, we discussed different ways we can regulate our emotions instead of having unkind hands. Tapping, talking and being in the calm corner are our favourite things to do when we get a little angry.