We have had lots of fun in the sun today welcoming our friends back for another busy year in Nursery. We look forward to making lots of new friends over the next few weeks. ?☀️ #smithdowneyfs
We have been so busy playing and learning on our first full day in Nursery today. I am so proud of our fantastic superstars. #smithdowneyfs
We have been practising breathing and relaxing exercises and then made our own mindfulness jar to help us breath. #smithdowneyfs
This afternoon we have been singing the wheels on the bus and then made marks to represent the bus. #smithdowneyfs
It has been a busy day making lots of new friends in Nursery. ?#smithdowneyfs
It’s been a busy afternoon in Nursery! We have been singing the wheels on the bus song and making marks to represent the different choruses of the rhyme. ? #smithdowneyfs
Today has been all about Incy Windy Spider ?️ we learnt the rhyme, used our hands to paint spiders and manipulated dough to create Incy Wincy. #smithdowneyfs
We have been busy today learning Incy Wincy rhyme and using our motor skills to manipulate dough into spiders. ?️ #smithdowneyfs
Today we have been looking and learning about different colours. #smithdowneyfs
Counting how many children are in school today and then drawing what we like doing in school. Playing with the dinosaurs, balls and friends are what we enjoy the most. ? #smithdowneyfs #attendancematters
The story box brought us lots of animals from the zoo. We enjoyed guessing which one was behind the door. We then went on an animal hunt and painted our favourite animal. #smithdowneyfs
It’s a busy morning at the zoo today! Preparing food for the animals and learning new vocabulary from our story. #smithdowneyfs
Recognising our emotions and placing how we feel on the zones of regulation board. #smithdowneyfs
We have been using the colour monsters from our new book to match the monsters and investigate five frames. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths #smithdownreaders
It has been a busy day sorting colours and making rainbows in Nursery today. #smithdowneyfs
We have been busy filling our jars with colours to sort and represent our feelings. #smithdowneyfs
Today we have been looking at ourselves as babies and talking about our families. #smithdowneyfs
It’s been a busy morning learning dances to Disney classics. I just can’t wait to be king! ? ? our roar’s are amazing! #smithdowneyfs
We have been busy using Autumn nature to create our faces. #smithdowneyfs
Today we have read The Leaf Man and made marks to represent the different places he passed in the wind. We then made our own leaf man. #smithdowneyfs
It’s been a busy afternoon looking at big and small. We worked hard sorting acorns. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths @MasterTheCurric
We had lots of fun in music this morning dancing and freezing to the beat. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic @ResonateHub
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What a fantastic first morning we had in Reception! #smithdowneyfs
Reception had a lovely afternoon visiting Speke Hall! We followed the Giant trail and spotted lots of the giant’s clothes high up in the trees! We tiptoed past the sleeping giant, making sure not to wake him! We then walked around the grounds, looking for signs of Autumn.
Please remember to join us at 2.15pm for a creative arts and crafts afternoon to celebrate World Nursery Rhyme Week.
Here are links to the focused nursery rhymes
Jack and Jill https://youtu.be/FYojUSFfuMg?si=SDUiqsd9OnNF5GM3
Hickory Dickory Dock https://youtu.be/yxoSyFkX_eA?si=MJGU2Ya8p0VhAVPG
The Wheels on the Bus https://youtu.be/xWyxe_QGq_g?si=_plPFxNqmR2Yn20d
Heads, Shoulder, Knees and Toes https://youtu.be/9S0_trHxcnk?si=FaZt14pGbqb7jctD
We have been learning all about the festival of Diwali this week. We made Diwa decorations and cards for Diwali. We also found how Diwali is celebrated and how Diwali means Festival of Light.
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This week we are learning how to rhyme and make rhyming strings in literacy.
This week we are comparing numbers and groups of objects saying which group has more than, fewer than or the same amount of objects. We have been building walls for Humpty Dumpty and saying which wall has more, fewer or the same amount of bricks.
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Happy Thursday from reception. We have been mark making outside and playing with our friends?
Parents and families just a reminder that Miss McFarlane’s class will be visiting Speke Hall tomorrow 20.11.23. The children can bring in wellington boots for the trip.
Many Thanks
We have printed trains with blocks and made marks to represent train track, trains and signals.
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Yesterday RLMc had lots of fun visiting Speke Hall. We looked at the changes for Autumn and we even saw a sleeping giant! We visited the giants house, kitchen, music room and even his playground. It was lots of fun!
We are learning all about different types of transport. We have been making our own hot air balloons using different materials and decorating them.
We have really enjoyed our post office role play area and writing letters independently.
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Thanks so much to all parents who attended our Nativity performance today.
Our next performance will be on Thursday 14th at 1.30pm.
Many Thanks
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Thanks so much to all parents and families for coming to see our Nativity performance today.
Our next performance will be on Thursday 14th at 1.30pm.
Many Thanks.?
This week we are learning all about chefs. This morning we had a visit from our school chef Miss Monica. We talked about her chefs outfit, the kitchen and menus. We then chose to create our own menus
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Reception had a wonderful morning listening to the story of Noah and the Ark
This week we have been learning about how chefs help us! Our lovely school chef came into class to answer our questions. We learnt about the special clothing chefs have to wear and the different equipment she uses to cook our tasty lunches!
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To continue learning about chefs, we’re going to become chefs and make our own soup! To prepare for this, we went to Tesco to buy the ingredients we need.
This week we have been learning all about chefs. We took a trip to Tesco to get ingredients to create vegetable soup.
Last week we made vegetable soup with the items we bought from the shop. We used our cutting skills to chop up the vegetables.
To celebrate the new lunar year, we have been getting crafty in class making representations of dragons using a variety of resources. Look at our fabulous dragons! We also made our own lanterns after learning about the significance of the colour red.
Thank you to our parents who came to our Reception maths parental workshop this week! We look at how to support your children with their shape knowledge at home. 
This morning we have had lots of fun playing in our Asda supermarket. We have been writing shopping lists and paying for our food with money.
On Monday we made Evil Pea gloop from our story Supertato. You can make this at home by mixing cornflower, water and green food colouring.
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We have been practicing our throwing and catching skills in a group. We worked together to see how quickly we can move the beanbag around the circle.
We have created a pictogram of our favourite character from Supertato. We counted to see how many children liked Evil Pea and how many more liked Supertato.
This afternoon we created Supertato’s house using icing sugar and gingerbread. We mixed the icing sugar and water to use as glue to stick the house together.
We have been having lots of fun outside using the boxes and our imaginations. We have been to the supermarket, space and more!
This week we have been working hard with our friends to put our Supertato story pictures into the correct order.
This afternoon we have been using the pens and pencils to mark make under the table.
We have had lots of fun outside building and exploring the magnetic tiles. We built houses, campfires and castles.
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We’ve had a fantastic day today celebrating World Book Day!
As part of World Book Day, we shared The Enormous Turnip story in class this week and made our own turnips to take home.
We have had lots of fun building with our large 3D shapes outside. We built a water slide with different shapes and found what combination made the cars and boats go faster.
Reception parents and families, please remember to come along to our Maths Stay and Learn today which will begin at 2.15pm until 3pm. We are looking forward to seeing as many of you there. Many thanks for your support.
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The children independently measured how long the carpet was using our toy vehicles.
In Reception we have enjoyed planting beans as part of our Jack and the Beanstalk/ Jasper’s Beanstalk learning. We talked about how to plant a bean and how to take care of the beans. We have also planted sunflowers and poppies in our mini sensory garden.
We are having a great time playing in our Easter area. We have been creating Easter cards and decorating eggs. We decorated our Easter tree with our favourite Easter eggs.
On Monday Miss McFarlane painted our feet to create carrot footprints.
Today we have been enjoying our outdoor area. We have been using the blocks to create different buildings and even a strawberry ice cream. We have been working together with our friends to build castles in the sand.
We have had lots of fun practicing our counting skills by measuring each others using a selection of objects.
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This term we have really enjoyed learning difference dances and moving to music and also creating our dance movements.
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We have started our Traditional Tales topic and our first book is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Here is a link to a song about the story to share at home.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-when-goldilocks-went-to-the-house-of-the-bears/zbkrf4j
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Today we have really enjoyed making porridge as part of our Goldilocks and the Three Bears learning.
We had lots of fun in P.E today. We had to jump and stop when directed while playing the frog game.
Maisie Mouse in our story is having a birthday! ? ? ?
In maths this week we are learning about how some numbers can be made up of two equal parts. We are looking at arrangements of numbers to spot and make equal and unequal parts.
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This week we are having lots of fun outdoors in developing our imaginations and communication and language skills.
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We have started to learn sign language each week and are doing so well at learning greetings, colours and animals thanks to Hands.
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Today we talked about what makes a good friend. We wrote about the different things we can do.
Look at our fantastic teddy bear biscuits that we made today. They tasted so good.
To celebrate the end of learning of Goldilocks and The Three Bears we hosted our own Teddy Bears Picnic. We had party food and danced with our teddies. We had a wonderful afternoon!
We have started to share the story of The Little Red Hen and we began by making our own bread. Here is a link if you would like to share the story at home.
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This week we are developing our composition skills by sorting items by size, colour and shape. If you would like to have a go at this at home we would love to see this. Can you sort out some items by colour or size?
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Today we welcomed parents to stay and learn, we had a lovely morning! This week we have been looking at the book “Aaaarggh Spider” lots of our activities had a spidery theme. ?️
Reception have been listening to Mrs Naylor play the harp in our music lesson today!
This week we have been looking at the story ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. Outside we built a bridge to cross to the green grass. We made signs for the goats from the troll showing they can’t cross the bridge.
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We have been loving this week’s book! Look at all of our fantastic work!
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We have learnt all the Makaton signs for the animals in our story and then used them to retell the story.
We have been learning about spiders this week and have been looking at similarities and differences.
Today we have enjoyed making fruit kebabs after listening to our new story.
RLMc had a great trip to Croxteth farm today. We saw lots of animals including goats from the Three Billy Goats story. We loved brushing the horse and holding the rabbit and Guinea pig. We had a great day outdoors.
We have worked hard to build this slide and have used our muscles to balance as we climb up and down it. 
In maths this week we are looking at which numbers up to 10 are odd and which are even.
We are munching our way threw one apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries and five oranges ? 
we enjoyed sharing our activities and rhymes with you all and look forward to seeing you next time. ☺️
If you are coming to Calderstones Park this morning please wait in the office and we will leave at 9.15. Thanks so much, Miss McFarlane.
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Today we have made some teddy bear bread using chocolate spread , bananas and raisins.
We had lots of fun with our families at Calderstones Park. We played ring games, had a picnic, fed the ducks, rolled down a hill, explored the playground and looked at different plants and flowers in the sensory gardens. Huge thanks to all families for coming along.
Today we had lots of fun making teddy bear bread , by spreading the chocolate spread and using bananas for the ears and raisins for the eyes. . 
Our new topic this half term is At the Seaside and this week we are looking at The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. We have been busy designing lighthouses using collage materials and blocks.
We have been enjoying playing in our ice cream role play area. We have made lots of ice creams and chose what topping we would like. We have made lots of fun combinations.
Please remember our Forest School Club begins today at 3.30 until 4pm for parents and children in Reception. All siblings welcome too. Many thanks, Miss McFarlane
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We really enjoyed celebrating Eid at school. We made cards and talked about how it is celebrated.
We have been using 10 frames to help us count objects and also double numbers.
Banana Boat song.
We had a great time creating dens at Forest School Club. Many thanks to all parents for coming along.
We are having a great time with our new topic about pirates. We created a pirate ship outdoors and created our own treasure maps. Our focus story is The Pirates Next Door. 
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Here is a link to this week’s story if you would like to share it at home.
A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
We set the children a range of challenges to see if the children could complete the challenge before the timer ends. 
We were picnic ready last week as part of our Eid celebrations at school. We had a wonderful time and it was lovely to share so much delicious food from our parents.
It was so lovely to see you all at our picnic and thank you for all the delicious food. 😋
keep those hearts topped up with love and we hope they help you all as you move onto new classes in September. ❤️ 
We had a great morning for our sports day! Thank you to all of our families who came to watch!
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Thank you too everyone for joining us for our picnic and all of our delicious food 🥘 
We had lots of fun celebrating Spanish day, making Spanish flags and doing Spanish dancing 💃 
Thank you for joining us this morning for our celebrations 🎉
We are lucky to have been able to share this year with your children and hope you all come back to say hello.
We finished the day with a party lunch and party games this afternoon. ☺️😊
Wow we have had a great time for our Big Teddy Bear Sleepover! First we started with a super singing assembly with Mrs Naylor. It was fun singing and dancing with our teddies. Then we made our teddies a bed to sleep in. We could not believe what they got up too when we went home. This morning we woke our teddies up with a lovely breakfast.
We really enjoyed singing songs and listening to the sounds of the ukulele in music today.
We are having a lovely time with friends we know and also making new friends.
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We are having lots of fun developing our fine and gross motor skills using foam!
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This week we are talking about our homes to paint, draw and create homes.
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We enjoy exploring different weather types in Reception.
Fabulous turn out at our phonics meeting. Keep an eye on the app for each weeks videos and activities.
We enjoyed our first PE session last Friday! We played games and went to the hall.
PE for RLMc is each Friday.
Huge thanks to all parents for coming along to our first workshop today. A link to all information shared is on our parent app for everybody to access. Many thanks and see you next Tuesday 15/10 at 2.15pm for the next session!
We celebrated Teddy’s birthday on Friday! We decorated biscuits, had a party and played party games including musical chairs and pass the parcel. It was great fun! 
We looked at number 4 this week and different ways to make 4. We also looked at other numbers that can be used to make 4. We also looked at patterns of 4.
We had fun on Friday with lots of PE opportunities with Danny Butler activities and playing The Floor is Lava outdoors. 
We are looking at groups of objects this week and which groups have more than and
This week in Reception literacy have been learning about clothing names and what we are wearing for school. We have shared a funny story called Monster Clothes and designed our own uniforms.
Here is a link to the story-
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We are working hard on learning our set 1 sounds and blending sounds together to make words.
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We had lots of fun with our families at our very first campfire. We toasted marshmallows and had hot chocolate and had a great time singing songs around the campfire!
Last week we had fun making gingerbread biscuits and decorating with our school colour of blue to give the biscuits a uniform.
This week we are having lots of fun in literacy with Room on the Broom! We have made our own broomsticks, created spells in writing and sequenced the story using pictures.
Huge thanks to all parents for coming along to session 3 of our literacy workshops which focused on nursery rhymes. The children then had fun with their mums making play dough to create Humpty Dumpty at home.
We are enjoying sharing the story of The Gruffalo this week! We have painted The Gruffalo and are describing The Gruffalo as part of our literacy and writing about what we can see. We also shared The Gruffalo song 🎵 and below is a link to share this at home.
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Reception parents please remember our last literacy workshop will be tomorrow at 2.15pm. Looking forward to seeing you there!
We made magical wands before we finished for half term using food and we then took them home.
We practiced playing listening games and moving in a variety of ways before half term in PE.
Today the children have had lots of fun dressing up for children in need. We have been making spotty biscuits and Pudsey bear party hats. 🥳
We all had a great time at Speke Hall! We walked around and found a sleeping giant on the Childe of Hale Trail, collected leaves, had a picnic lunch, sang songs and explored the maze and playground. 
Huge thanks to all parents for attending our group of workshops in supporting children with their early literacy skills. The children joined their parents for the last few minutes of our writing session and had lots of fun making unicorn play dough and threading pasta to raise the importance of developing fine and gross motor skills.
This morning we had some special visitors Flint and Matilda the owls. We have been reading the Owl Babies and we so excited to meet some real life owls.
This afternoon we had some special visitors Flint and Matilda the owls. We have been reading the Owl Babies and we were very excited to meet some real life owls.
We had fun making Pudsey Bear biscuits today as part of Children in Need.
Great to explore the winter weather this morning in Reception! We’ve had so much fun!
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This morning, Reception have been using their problem skills to firstly estimate which objects will be heavy and which will be light. They had so much fun, pretending to be human scales, and placing objects in their hands, rocking the balance to show heavy and light. To reinforce the learning, the children were introduced to weighing scales, whereby they weighed different everyday items to determine which was heaviest and which was lightest. Some of the children took it a little further, by weighing three objects, then placing them in the order from lightest to heaviest. Good job, 👏
We have been very busy using red paint to make a letterbox. We can’t wait to use it to post our letters.
We made letters today. We used our fine motor skills to cut, fold and stick. We then posted the letters in our new role play post office.
This week in maths we are finding out which items are heavy, light and the lightest and the heaviest.
As part of learning about different types of transport, we made wheels on the bus biscuits and used photographs of vehicles to choose which ones we would use to help
This week we are learning all about what happens at the post office and have shared a story called
The Jolly Postman. We are also writing special wishes to post home next Friday 6th December. We have a,so had lots of fun painting and creating a post box.
Yesterday we saw some snowy footprints in our classroom. We followed the trail and found our special visitor. We called him Eddie the elf.
This week in Mathematics, the children in class RJP have been focusing on sequencing. We explored the vocabulary, how ‘sequencing’ means to repeat a pattern. The children used paint to create an ‘ABBA’ pattern firstly, following the pattern, ‘red, green, red, green’. We then had lots of fun demonstrating the ‘ababab’ pattern using Christmas pictures, and designing a colourful paper-chain. To extend the learning, we explored different patterns, expanding on the number of picture cards, colours, and using shapes which have been learned previously. This helps the children problem solve sequencing in a fun way.
Why not keep up this learning at home, by asking the children to make repeated patterns using different objects.
Thank you so much to all parents and families for coming to watch The Twinky Nativity performed this morning by Nursery A and RLMc. We hope you enjoyed watching all of our wonderful children here in Smithdown Early Years.
This week we found snowy footprints and an elf called Elfie! He has flown into Reception to spread kindness all around.
Reception and Nursery B have really worked hard to deliver a magnificent performance, full of wonder and magical singing in front of all our wonderful families this week. I would like to thank all of you for your support in taking the time to come and watch the children, as it really makes the difference to your child’s growth, as it builds their confidence. We loved learning all about the twinkly story, and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed performing it to you.
We had the best time posting our letters this morning, Eddie the elf came with us too! I wonder where our letters will end up? 📫Thank you to those parents who were able to join us at this busy time.
Today in maths we named and described the features of shapes. We went on a shape hunt and found different shapes in our playground
After our shape hunt, we created Christmas pictures using different shapes. We talked about all the different shapes we used.
This week, the children have loved writing Christmas Card inserts to their families. They enjoyed practicing their early writing skills using the knowledge they have gained. This afternoon, they are excited to begin designing their cards…I am excited to see their creativity!
We worked as a team this afternoon to make a landscape using big blocks.
We have had the best day today…
First, the children were visited by Santa 🎅🏽 who told the class how good they had all been. We were then all treated to the most tasty Christmas dinner. We then went back to class to enjoy yet another favourite treat of ice-cream whilst watching the ‘Beauty and Beast’ panto. What a great 🎉 party day!
The Reception children of RAG have enjoyed listening to the marvellous Christmas story, ‘The Polar Express’. They even managed to retell the story in sequence, from start to finish, using pictures. Well done!
We had a lovely time visiting the local post box to post a letter home. The children worked very hard on writing a wish for a special person/ people in their lives. Our learning had been about how to post a letter home. The children placed their letters into envelopes and put on a stamp. We hope that everybody has received their letters. Many thanks to all parents who joined us for the walk.
Today has been a lovely day. We have had a visit from Santa and enjoyed a lovely lunch. We have played party games too. Everybody looks fantastic! Thank you Smithdown Primary for a wonderful day.
This week in maths we are learning all about flat shapes or 2-D shapes and creating pictures using a selection of shapes.
Today the children have enjoyed making patterns using the paint and Christmas stamps 🎄
Last week we had a great time making pizzas in Reception. We took our pizzas home after rolling out the dough and adding cheese and tomato sauce. Some of us also decorated our pizzas using tomatoes.
Eddie is going back to the North Pole. We enjoyed seeing all the things he got up to every morning . Goodbye Eddie,see you next year.
We had lots of fun in Reception on our Santa Dash!
It’s been a super first few weeks in Reception.
This week we have been learning about how numbers can be made
We enjoyed making cakes last week. 
We had a visit from the athlete Danny Butler on Friday and we had such fun being active and heard lots about how important it is to be active.
This week we are comparing amounts of objects up to 10 to see which groups have more, fewer or the same.
Here are some of our activities this winter time.
