Early Years Foundation Stage

Stars of the week

A big well done to our stars of the week. You are fantastic!

The Animal Boogie

We have used the play dough and wooden sticks to make enclosure’s for the animals from our new story.

Plaster cast dolls

We have been using mod rock today . We wrapped it around the dolls arms and legs to make plaster casts.

Movement – PE

In PE today we tried different ways of moving around the hall. We practiced being Mr Tall, Miss Small, Mr Rush and Mr Slow.

Doctors and Nurses Numbers!

We ordered numbers 1-10 and found the correct numicon to match.

Ness the nurse

Our story this week is Ness the nurse. We have been painting pictures of her.

Doctors and nurses

This week as part of our ‘People who help us’ topic, we are looking at Doctors and nurses and finding out the things they do to make us better.

The Animal Boogie

Today we have read the story The Animal Boogie and we have been busy creating enclosures for the jungle animals using the play dough.

We have been exploring the ice today and thinking of different ways to help it melt. Some suggestions were “put it in the sunshine” “put hot water on it” it was lots of fun and we learnt lots of new vocab rescuing the animals and describing the ice.

Can we beat the timer to put on our winter accessories? We were determined to make sure the gloves were on properly!

Ice shapes

We used ice trays to make 3D ice shapes. We then added them to our winter tuft tray to have some messy fun!

Fun in the snow!

We had so much fun playing in the snow yesterday. We even made a little snowman.

Snowflake Making

As part of our winter topic, we are having lots of fun creating our own snowflakes using paint and paper. We have also been practicing our cutting skills in creating our very own snowflakes.

3-D Shape

This week in maths we are learning all about 3-D shapes. We have been learning some 3-D shape names and trying to find real life 3-D shapes in class and outdoors. We have also been building towers using 3-D shapes and seeing how many shapes we can use to make the tallest tower. We have also been problem solving about which shapes will be the best at the top of the tower!

The Snowman

We have been practicing reading words and using our phonic knowledge to match the correct words to the pictures.

Dressing Teddy for Winter

We dressed Teddy for the snow. We thought about what kinds of clothes Teddy would need and how he would need to wrap up warm to go outside.

Winter ❄️

We had great fun yesterday exploring the snow!

We have been working out how to rescue the animals from the ice. 🧊 “we need a hammer to hit it” “we need to melt it” were some suggestions.

Making playdough snowmen

We rolled the playdough into sphere shapes to make our snowmen.

Recognising and counting numbers 1 to 5

We used our counting skills to make the correct amount of snowman buttons.

Eddie the elf

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.

Star Pizza Making

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.

Christmas stockings

A busy day cutting and decorating our Christmas stockings.

Glitter fun

Lots of fun today decorating our stars.

Christmas pattern stamping

Today the children have enjoyed making patterns using the paint and Christmas stamps 🎄

It’s been a day a day full of fun and parties 🥳

Reception in Winter Time

Here are some of our activities this winter time.

Reception at Winter Time

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Here are some of our activities in Reception from this week.

Homework

Last week we had some wonderful stamp design homework!

2-D Shape

This week in maths we are learning all about flat shapes or 2-D shapes and creating pictures using a selection of shapes.

Christmas Dinner Day

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.

Posting Letters Home

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.

Retelling the story of The Polar Express

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!

Christmas party and pantomime

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!

We have been busy making repeating patterns today.

Building using small blocks

We worked as a team this afternoon to make a landscape using big blocks.

Christmas card inserts

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!

Making a shape picture

After our shape hunt, we created Christmas pictures using different shapes. We talked about all the different shapes we used.

Shapes in the environment

Today in maths we named and described the features of shapes. We went on a shape hunt and found different shapes in our playground

Sending a letter home!

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.

Christmas Twinkly Nativity

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.

Post Office Play

We are enjoying playing in the post office in Reception.

Elfie in Reception

This week we found snowy footprints and an elf called Elfie! He has flown into Reception to spread kindness all around.

Christmas Decorating

Patterns

This week in maths we are continuing and creating repeating patterns.

The Twinkly Nativity

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.

Christmas elves

Eddie the elf has swopped our dressing up clothes for elf clothes!

Sequencing

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.

A special visitor

Yesterday we saw some snowy footprints in our classroom. We followed the trail and found our special visitor. We called him Eddie the elf.

It’s beginning to look like Christmas…

It’s beginning to look like Christmas…

This week we have been busy reading the book Stickman and then created our own stickman.

At the Post Office

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.

Wheels on the Bus

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

Weighing in Reception

This week in maths we are finding out which items are heavy, light and the lightest and the heaviest.

Cutting skills

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.

Painting a letterbox

We have been very busy using red paint to make a letterbox. We can’t wait to use it to post our letters.

Comparing weight of items, using mathematical language, ‘lighter and heavier’ than.

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, 👏

Thank you to everyone that joined us this afternoon.

5 currant buns in the bakers shop.

Thank you for joining us for our Nursery Rhyme stay and learn.

We have been busy baking 5 currant buns this morning as part of World Nursery Rhyme Week.

Fun in the snow this morning ❄️

Snow Fun

  We have had lots of fun exploring the snow!

Snow Fun!

Great to explore the winter weather this morning in Reception! We’ve had so much fun!

How lovely to see these two sharing our class book together. 🦉 📖

We have had so busy all day raising money for Children in Need.

Pudsey Bear Biscuits

We had fun making Pudsey Bear biscuits today as part of Children in Need.

This afternoon’s owl visit

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.

This morning’s owl visit

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.

The Gruffalo

Last week we had a great time making Gruffalo Crumble in cookery!

Parent Literacy Workshop

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.

Speke Hall Trip

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.

Children in need

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. 🥳

Starting our Children in Need campaign in Nursery. 🐻

We have been busy making poppy art and poppy biscuits today to mark Remembrance Day.

Fireworks 🎆 Today we have mage firework gloop, chocolate sparklers and glittery firework pictures.

Marking Remembrance Day with poppy biscuits and poppy art.

PE in Reception

We practiced playing listening games and moving in a variety of ways before half term in PE.

Magical Wands

We made magical wands before we finished for half term using food and we then took them home.

Comparison in Maths

This week we are comparing amounts of objects up to 10 to see which groups have more, fewer or the same.

Reception Literacy Workshop

Reception parents please remember our last literacy workshop will be tomorrow at 2.15pm. Looking forward to seeing you there!

The Gruffalo

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.

We have been using new describing words whilst manipulating firework gloop. 🎆

We have been creating our faces using Autumn nature…

Pumpkin Exploration

We had great fun exploring a pumpkin in Reception.

We have been learning about Diwali and are manipulating salt dough into our own diya lamps. 🪔

Reception Parent Literacy Workshop

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.

Room on the Broom

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.

Clothing Week

Last week we had fun making gingerbread biscuits and decorating with our school colour of blue to give the biscuits a uniform.

Campfire in Reception

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Campfire in Reception

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!

Phonics in Reception

We are working hard on learning our set 1 sounds and blending sounds together to make words.

It’s been a day full of Autumn learning. 🍂 🍁

Exploring loud and quiet sounds like the girl in our story. 🎶

We have a new teacher in class today!

Clothing

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-

Pumpkin Song

We sang a pumpkin song today!

Phonics in Reception

Music 🎶

Today we used special scarves to sing a song in music.

Comparison

We are looking at groups of objects this week and which groups have more than and 

Working hard together to build the tallest towers.

PE in Reception

We had fun on Friday with lots of PE opportunities with Danny Butler activities and playing The Floor is Lava outdoors.

Danny Butler Visit

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.

Maths in Reception

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.

Teddy’s Birthday Party

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!

Amazing Writing

Wow. Look at this writing from reception children. How amazing!

Thank you to everyone that joined us this afternoon, it was lovely to see you all in Nursery playing and sharing the space together.

We have made our own jars to help us stay calm.

Phonics in Reception

We are working hard on our phonics this week.

Understanding 4

In maths this week we are making and counting arrangements of 4.

Reception Literacy Workshop

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!

Teddy’s Birthday

We are having lots of fun celebrating Teddy’s birthday this week.

Thank you to everyone who joined us this afternoon in Nursery.

Large mark making in the afternoon sun.☀️

Making Cakes

We enjoyed making cakes last week. 

Composing Numbers

This week we have been learning about how numbers can be made

PE

We enjoyed our first PE session last Friday! We played games and went to the hall. PE for RLMc is each Friday.

Phonics

We are working hard on our phonics this week.

Dinosaur Roar! We have been exploring different activities with dinosaurs after reading our new book. We have been strengthening our muscles by rescuing the dinosaurs, printing with their feet and making our own dinosaurs with the dough.

The most important job! Making tea and learning new vocabulary ☕️

Phonics Meeting

Fabulous turn out at our phonics meeting. Keep an eye on the app for each weeks videos and activities.

Weather Exploration in Reception

We enjoy exploring different weather types in Reception.

Imaginative Play

It’s been a super first few weeks in Reception.

You Choose

This week our focus story is You Choose. Here is a link to share at home.

Our Homes

n d This week we are talking about our homes  to paint, draw and create homes.

Maths in Reception

IMG_4739 This week we are practicing counting objects and counting how many objects in total. We are also sharing counting songs and helping our Teddy to count the correct number of objects.

Phonics

We are working hard on learning our sounds in Reception.

Outdoor Fun

It’s been lots of fun outdoors today.

Malleable Play in Reception

We are having lots of fun developing our fine and gross motor skills using foam!

Friendships in Reception

We are having a lovely time with friends we know and also making new friends.

Rainy Days in Reception

We have had great fun exploring the weather this week.

Making Play Dough

We had great fun making play dough for our class.

Music in Reception

We really enjoyed singing songs and listening to the sounds of the ukulele in music today.

Our First Week in Reception

It’s been a great first week in Reception!