Royal Wedding

We looked at the royal wedding that happened when out mums were little. Princess Diana and Prince Charles got married a long time ago (in 1981). We lookoed at  how people would have watched it on television with no remote control and had street parties to celebrate. We also re-created the royal carriage that the prince and princess travelled in. Don't we look majestic!

The Queen of Hearts made some tarts....

For the past two weeks, all our learning has been based around the nursery rhyme 'The Queen of Hearts'.  The children have been developing their vocabulary by using 'WOW' words in our speaking and writing activities. We made 'splendid, divine, magnificent and luscious jam tarts' and the poor queen suffered an 'emergency' in her castle when her tarts burned and caused a fire. What a disaster! The children loved role playing calling the fire brigade to save the palace.We have also been giving each other compliments as we want 'kind hearts' just like the queen herself!

We are taking a change of direction this week as we will be looking at a royal wedding 'When Mum was a little girl' (Prince Charles and Lady Diana). If you have any souvenirs of the date e,g, tea towels, spoons, mugs etc that you would be willing for the children to look at (nothing too valuable), then please let me know. I would particularly like photographs of street parties that took part around the date as we will be arranging our own street party in school to celebrate Prince William and Kate's wedding later on in the term. It would also be nice if parents would come and talk about their memories of Prince Charles and Lady Diana's wedding to develop the children's listening and speaking skills. If you can help our with any of the above then please let me know.

Let's celebrate!

We will be taking a break from our 'Tiaras and towers, crowns and gowns' topic to celebrate Chinese New Year! We will be learning how Chinese people celebrate the festival as well as experiencing some of the culture. We will be preparing our home corner by cleaning, decorating and preparing food. We are very lucky to receive a visit form Xiaoli Bigg's mum who has kindly offered to come and cook for the children to taste authentic chinese cooking on Thursday. Photos to follow. If you have anything at home that could contribute to this topic then please let me know.

Winter!

We have been learning about winter since we got back from the Christmas holidays. We made cold pictures -using  a ruler to mark out the papers, panting using whites, greys, silvers and blues. Finally, we made marks using dots, lines zig zags and circles using marker pens.
We had a big block of ice - it felf so cold and smooth. When we looked closely we could see lines inside it. We tried to break it - but it was hard. We then put on safety goggles and got hammer s we could try and break it - what hard work!   

Welcome Back to school

We can hardly believe that our first term in reception class has already come to an end and the spring term has started! The children couldn't wait to tell us all about their christmas presents and the lovely time that they had. They have all settled back into the new term, excitied to see their friends and have been working hard. I can't believe how much their have grown in two weeks!

We are kicking off the new term with a mini topic based on 'Winter' which will be loosely based on the story of 'The Gruffalo's Child'. This will involve lots of out door activites where we will be mixing magic 'sleep' potions (the smellier the better!) to keep the Gruffalo sleeping while we look for his treasure. We have been using our imagination to draw pictures of Jack Frost and the children have also painted beautiful winter pictures using blues, silvers and shades of white. As the term progresses we will be looking at 'Chinese New Year' and our main topic of 'Prince and Princesses'.

Thank you to all those parents who promptly paid their snack money and can I also remind parents to return PE kits to school (if you haven't already done so) as well as the children's 'Sound books' for undating and reading books on your child's designated reading day.

As always, thank you for your continuing support and if you have any concern, query or you would just like a progress update on your child, please do not hesitate to come and see me - every effort will be made to see you at a convienient time.

What a show !

Our Christmas concert this year was called `Sparkle.`  It was about the smallest star in the sky who had a very important job to do- she became the star of Bethlehem! All the children used their loud voices to tell the story and sang their hearts out! We were all very proud.We have been working so hard on our Christmas concert this year.   

Children in Need !!!!

We had such a fun day helping "Children in Need" We dressed in spotty clothes and made spotty biscuits! Delicious! We also put our loose change on a huge Pudsey Bear. Did you see our school name on Children in Need?