Welcome to Reception
In Reception we are encouraged to be independent, caring and polite. Whilst having lots of fun with our friends we learn how to problem solve, recognise numerals and count confidently. The children develop key PSHE physical, language, literacy and mathematical skills through a wide variety of activities both indoors and outdoors. The children have daily literacy, maths and phonic sessions and our curriculum is designed to encourage creativity. We share a wide range of books to promote an enjoyment of reading and writing.
Information for Parents
The adults in Miss Guy’s class are Miss Losh and Miss Cant
The adults in Miss McFarlane’s class are Mrs Hunter and Miss Mohamed
Please click here for a copy of our Autumn Term Overview
Class Timetables
Click here for RLMc timetable.
Reading at Home
Reading books will be changed on a weekly basis and we encourage you to spend 5/10 minutes each day sharing your child’s reading book with them. We kindly ask that book bags are brought to school each day.
PE
PE kits consist of navy shorts and a sky blue polo shirt.
Miss Guys class (RAG) have PE every Thursday.
Miss McFarlane’s class (RLMc) have PE every Friday.
Keep up to date with our latest news by following our page on Chatter found on our school website.
Useful Links:
Helping your child with phonics
Today we celebrated Earth Day in Reception by using sun paper to make natural pictures. We also talked about ways to save and conserve 
energy and used a parachute to use the power of the wind to have lots of fun outdoors.
We have started to learn sign language in Reception. Today we have been learning signs for colours.
The children had a wonderful time celebrating Eid at school. We had a dance party to celebrate!
Today we continued with the Eid celebrations. The children looked amazing in their special Eid clothes and had some fun doing some lovely Eid activities! We finished off the day with a dance party to celebrate Eid 🎉
Reception families and parents if you are joining us at Central Library this week, please meet us at 9.45 at the main entrance of Central Library on William Brown Street.
Miss McFarlane’s class will go to the library tomorrow Tuesday 1st April and Miss McNally’s class will visit on Thursday 3rd April. Below is a map link for our school to the library.
The postcode for the library is L3 8EW.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Smithdown+Primary+School,+Chatsworth+Drive,+Liverpool+L7+6LJ/Central+Library,+William+Brown+St,+Liverpool+L3+8EW/@53.4053523,-2.9861237,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x487b21022e52ea2d:0x4c6d8550a6cc4176!2m2!1d-2.9511929!2d53.3992227!1m5!1m1!1s0x487b213b05a3aa69:0x5f4ca882f45b6b5d!2m2!1d-2.9802884!2d53.4098392!3e0?hl=en-gb&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMyNS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Many thanks.
We have had fun making carrot footprints today as part of spring and Easter.
Thank you very much to all parents who cam along to our Mother’s Day story time on Friday.
Our star of the week certificates go to two fantastic hard workers. Well done! ⭐️ 🌟 💫
This week we have been looking at rhyming strings in literacy and subtraction in maths.
Wishing you all a very happy Mother’s Day! A big thank you to everyone that attended our special Mother’s Day story time this morning. We hope you enjoyed it. 🌸 🌺 💗
We enjoyed painting sunflowers as we watched our own sunflower seeds begin to grow. We shared a story called Camille and the Sunflowers and looked at a famous sunflower painting by Vincent Van Gogh to help us with our painting.
In Reception literacy this week we are practicing continuing a rhyming string and enjoying lots of rhymes. We are sharing a story called Oi Frog and below is a link if you’d like to share the story at home.
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This week in Reception maths we are practicing subtracting and writing numbers and subtraction number sentences.
Below are some links to some subtraction number songs to share at home.
https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/bottleTakeAway/index.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/zjjbnrd
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We are busy in Reception making Eid cards and Mother’s Day cards.
We listened to the lovely sounds of the violin and sang along to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
This morning we voted as to whether we would climb the beanstalk or not! The children standing said they would climb and the children sitting down said that they would not!
We have had a great time playing the claves in music. We had to keep to a beat and then stop!
This week we are learning about Jack and the Beanstalk. Below is a link to the story if you would like to share it at home.
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This week we are learning about Jack and the Beanstalk as part of our topic of Growth. We have painted a beanstalk and have planted beans and peas. We will be watering them to watch them grow.
This week we are practicing adding 1 using the part whole model.
We created a beanstalk using green ribbon and paper. We imagined it was leading up to the giant’s castle.
We had fun decorating sunflower biscuits this afternoon.
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To celebrate science week, reception read The Gingerbread Man and talked about what might happen if the gingerbread man fell into the water. We decided to see what would happen if we dunked biscuits into milk, oil and water.
This week we have planted sunflower seeds, made scented play dough using lavender, rosemary and mint and planted vegetables, daffodils and herbs. We will be watching the changes to the seeds as they grow. 
As part of Science Week we did an experiment about which biscuit is the best for dipping! We have used a variety of biscuits to dip into milk, water and oil. We looked to see which liquid was the best to use. Thank you Mrs Kelly for giving us great ideas for a fun afternoon!
This week we are celebrating Science Week at school. Reception are learning about a scientist called Sarah Boone who helped to create the modern day ironing board.
We will water our seeds everyday and watch them grow into beautiful sunflowers.
After carefully listening to the instructions, we planted our sunflower seeds.
This week our focused story in literacy is Errol’s Garden. If you would like to share it at home, here is a link to the book.
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We have had a great time beginning our topic of Growth by planting sunflower seeds. We will observe the changes to the seeds over the next few weeks. We are also celebrating Science Week at school this week.
We enjoyed World Book Day! We found lots of Dalmatian dogs and hid from Cruella de Vil!
What a fantastic day we had dressed up as our favourite book characters.
We had lots of being superheroes and creating dens outdoors for the superheroes to live in.
We made some fantastic Supertato pictures using real potatoes to print with.
In Reception we have celebrated International Mother Language Day by counting in other languages and learning the names of our snacks in different languages.
This week we are counting up to 7 objects and making 6 and 7 using other numbers including 5.
This week we are learning all about Supertato the supermarket hero! Thanks to all parents who have helped their child to make their own Supertato at home. We have also had fun making them at school and below is a link to this week’s story if you’d like to share it at home.
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Our new topic is Superheroes! How many superheroes can you spot in Reception?!
Huge thanks to all parents for joining their children in celebrating Valentine’s Day. The children had a lovely week creating cards, hats and hearts in cookery.
A big thank you to everybody who attended our Valentine’s Day story time. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. ♥️😍
This week we have practiced learning about 2-D shapes. We talked about shape names and what they look like, created police car pictures using 2-D shapes, found real 2-D shapes outside and problem solved by making shapes using string.
We have been learning all about the police and what they do. We have dressed up as the police, cut out police cars and talked about how important they are.
This week as part of our People Who Help Us topic, we have been learning about the jobs of the police. We have also shared and re-enacted the story of What the Ladybird 🐞 Heard as part of our learning. Below is a link to share the story at home.
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Our last parents maths workshop was all about measures and the children took part in a range of activities with their mums. Huge thanks to all parents for coming along each week and hope to see you for future workshops.
Reception had a great time meeting Cosmo and learning all about what he likes.
We had to move around the hall like a car, a train or an airplane.
We had a very special visitor today. His name was Cosmo. We loved getting to know him.
This weeks story is called What the ladybird heard. We dressed up as police officers and looked for ladybirds.
The children have been inspired by the dragon dancing workshop they attended yesterday. They got creative and made their very own dragon costume – they took turns being at the front of the dragon and dancing to the music. 🧧🐲🐉
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/lets-celebrate-chinesenewyearperformance
Here is a link to the story about Lunar New Year if you would like to share this at home.
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The children enjoyed the dragon workshop today and had lots of fun doing a lion dance.
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We had a great time shopping for pizza ingredients. Tomorrow we will make pizza!!
Reception learned about the Chinese Lunar New Year this week. We celebrated by doing some Dragon Dancing.
This week we are celebrating the lunar new year. We have been making lanterns, mark making and playing in our Chinese restaurant. We have been so busy!
A big thank you to our school chef who came to visit us today. She told us all about the different food she cooks for us. We love our school lunches.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf3r96f
The children have had fun counting objects and matching and recognising numbers to 5 over the last two weeks. The link above will take you to a game to play home to further support the children’s learning.
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Thanks so much to all parents who have attended our maths workshop to support our children’s learning both at school and at home. Our next session is this Tuesday 28th January at 2.15pm.
In PE over the last three weeks we have practiced ball skills, developing listening skills through games and developing fine and gross motor skills using hoops and bean bags.
Last week the children had great fun creating their own menus and creating their own sandwiches. We also learnt about the job of a chef and how they help us. We had fun in our supermarket role play area too!
We began our People Who Help Us topic by learning all about the job of doctors and nurses and how they help us. We painted Ness the Nurse after sharing the story in class, created doctor bags, wrote prescriptions and helped Billy Bear to get well soon.
We have had lots of fun over the past three weeks exploring the different types of winter weather.
We made black currant and strawberry sandwiches this afternoon. Yummy!
We have been using mod rock today . We wrapped it around the dolls arms and legs to make plaster casts.
In PE today we tried different ways of moving around the hall. We practiced being Mr Tall, Miss Small, Mr Rush and Mr Slow.
We ordered numbers 1-10 and found the correct numicon to match.
Our story this week is Ness the nurse. We have been painting pictures of her.
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.
We used ice trays to make 3D ice shapes. We then added them to our winter tuft tray to have some messy fun!
We had so much fun playing in the snow yesterday. We even made a little snowman.
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.
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!
This week we are sharing the story of The Snowman in Reception. Here is a link if you would like to share the story at home. ⛄️
https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/snowman-eng.pdf
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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.
We rolled the playdough into sphere shapes to make our snowmen.
We used our counting skills to make the correct amount of snowman buttons.
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.
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.
This week in maths we are learning all about flat shapes or 2-D shapes and creating pictures using a selection of shapes.
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.
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.
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 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 worked as a team this afternoon to make a landscape using big blocks.
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!
After our shape hunt, we created Christmas pictures using different shapes. We talked about all the different shapes we used.
Today in maths we named and described the features of shapes. We went on a shape hunt and found different shapes in our playground
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.
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. 
This week we found snowy footprints and an elf called Elfie! He has flown into Reception to spread kindness all around.
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 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.
Yesterday we saw some snowy footprints in our classroom. We followed the trail and found our special visitor. We called him Eddie the elf.
What a lovely morning with parents we had! We all had a toasted marshmallow, cup of hot chocolate and sang some songs.
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.
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 in maths we are finding out which items are heavy, light and the lightest and the heaviest.
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.
We have been very busy using red paint to make a letterbox. We can’t wait to use it to post our letters.
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, 👏
Great to explore the winter weather this morning in Reception! We’ve had so much fun!
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We had fun making Pudsey Bear biscuits today as part of Children in Need.
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.
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. 
We practiced playing listening games and moving in a variety of ways before half term in PE.
We made magical wands before we finished for half term using food and we then took them home.
Reception parents please remember our last literacy workshop will be tomorrow at 2.15pm. Looking forward to seeing you there!
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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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.
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.
Last week we had fun making gingerbread biscuits and decorating with our school colour of blue to give the biscuits a uniform.
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!
We are working hard on learning our set 1 sounds and blending sounds together to make words.
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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 had fun on Friday with lots of PE opportunities with Danny Butler activities and playing The Floor is Lava outdoors. 
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 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! 
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 enjoyed our first PE session last Friday! We played games and went to the hall.
PE for RLMc is each Friday.
Fabulous turn out at our phonics meeting. Keep an eye on the app for each weeks videos and activities.
We enjoy exploring different weather types in Reception.
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This week we are talking about our homes to paint, draw and create homes.
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We are having lots of fun developing our fine and gross motor skills using foam!
We are having a lovely time with friends we know and also making new friends.
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We really enjoyed singing songs and listening to the sounds of the ukulele in music today.
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 had a great morning for our sports day! Thank you to all of our families who came to watch!
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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.
A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
Here is a link to this week’s story if you would like to share it at home.
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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We had a great time creating dens at Forest School Club. Many thanks to all parents for coming along.
We have been using 10 frames to help us count objects and also double numbers.
We really enjoyed celebrating Eid at school. We made cards and talked about how it is celebrated.
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 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.
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 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.
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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In maths this week we are looking at which numbers up to 10 are odd and which are even.
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 been loving this week’s book! Look at all of our fantastic work!
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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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Reception have been listening to Mrs Naylor play the harp in our music lesson today!
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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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!
Look at our fantastic teddy bear biscuits that we made today. They tasted so good.
Today we talked about what makes a good friend. We wrote about the different things we can do.
This week we are having lots of fun outdoors in developing our imaginations and communication and language skills.
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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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We had lots of fun in P.E today. We had to jump and stop when directed while playing the frog game.
We have been looking at the story of ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’ and we made porridge and chose different toppings.
Today we have really enjoyed making porridge as part of our Goldilocks and the Three Bears learning.
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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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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 had lots of fun practicing our counting skills by measuring each others using a selection of objects.
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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 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.
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.
The children independently measured how long the carpet was using our toy vehicles.
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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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.
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’ve had a fantastic day today celebrating World Book Day!
We have had lots of fun outside building and exploring the magnetic tiles. We built houses, campfires and castles.
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This afternoon we have been using the pens and pencils to mark make under the table.
This week we have been working hard with our friends to put our Supertato story pictures into the correct order.
We have been having lots of fun outside using the boxes and our imaginations. We have been to the supermarket, space and more!
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 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.
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.
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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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.
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. 
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.
Last week we made vegetable soup with the items we bought from the shop. We used our cutting skills to chop up the vegetables.
This week we have been learning all about chefs. We took a trip to Tesco to get ingredients to create vegetable soup.
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 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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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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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.
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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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We have really enjoyed our post office role play area and writing letters independently.
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We are learning all about different types of transport. We have been making our own hot air balloons using different materials and decorating them.
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 have been having lots of fun practising our ball skills in P.E. Well done reception
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
Happy Thursday from reception. We have been mark making outside and playing with our friends?
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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This week we are learning how to rhyme and make rhyming strings in literacy.
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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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
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.
After sharing the story of The Smartest Giant in Town we retold the story using Billy Bear and made him a crown ? just like George the Giant #smithdowneyfs
In last week’s maths we made arrangements of 4 and ordered numbers to 4 #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths
Billy Bear’s Birthday Party- we had dancing games, party food and pass the parcel- it was lots of fun #smithdowneyfs
We had lots of fun last week celebrating Billy Bears birthday with a party ??? #smithdowneyfs
What a fantastic afternoon we had on Friday celebrating Mr Squirrel’s 5th birthday! We worked hard to prepare for the party by writing invitations to our friends and helping to decorate our classroom. We even took turns to play party games! #smithdowneyfs
We have been looking at what clothes we wear for school and talked about the proper names for each clothing item. We used our cutting and sticking skills to make our own uniforms. #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPr
Balancing our beanbags on different parts of our body #smithdowneyfs #smithdownpe
Lots of fun in PE today practicing our throwing and catching using beanbags ?✨ #smithdowneyfs #smithdownpe
Thank you to all parents who came along to session 2 of ourparent literacy workshop which focused on rhyme ☀️
Reception parents we are looking forward to seeing you at 2.15pm today for session 2 of our literacy workshop
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Preparing for Teddy’s birthday ? on Friday #smithdowneyfs
A reception superstar has been busy at home making a decorative bottle #smithdowneyfs
Tasting different foods last week as part of learning about our bodies- some were a bit sour! #smithdowneyfs #smithdownsci
Friday PE playing games to develop gross motor skills #smithdowneyfs #smithdownpe
This morning we enjoyed writing some party invitations for Mr Squirrels birthday party. @SmithdownPr #smithdowneyfs
This week we are talking about birthdays and parties. We had lots of fun role playing. #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPr
Busy baking bread this afternoon! #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPr
Today we have been exploring the sense of taste. We talked about tastes we like and tastes we don’t like. We tasted liquorice, pickled onions, sherbet,lemon and salty crisps.#smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPr
Exploring gloop outdoors and what happens when cornflour is mixed with water #smithdowneyfs
Planting some new seeds for autumn ? #smithdowneyfs
Today after learning about compositions of 3 we found items of 3s in our garden. #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPr
Dancing with scarves in our music lesson. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic @SmithdownPr
Today we have been finding out all about the sense of smell. We talked about good and bad smells. We had to guess what smells were in the pots. We smelt mint, lemon and strawberry. #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPr
We have been playing a game called label the body. We looked at our head, ear, cheek, arm and leg. We introduced our wrist, ankle, calf, and thigh . #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPr
Thank you to all of our families who came to our first Reception parents Literacy workshop. We hope to see you all again next week for our second session! #smithdowneyfs #smithdownreaders
Imaginative play outdoors- the children are making soup for lunch #smithdowneyfs
Reception parents please remember to come along to session one of our literacy workshop this afternoon from 2.15-3pm- many thanks #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPr
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We love developing our playing skills with our friends! #smithdowneyfs
We loved making models of our homes! #smithdowneyfs #smithdowndt
This week we are labelling our body parts. #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPr
This week we enjoyed looking at where we live. We painted and made models of our homes.#smithdowneyfs #smithdowngeog @SmithdownPr
Lots of play to develop imaginations #smithdowneyfs
We have made a shelter den from the rain #smithdowneyfs
We have created a home this afternoon for Billy Bear ? using a variety of materials #smithdowneyfs
Today in PE we played a game called ‘pirates’. We had to do the actions for scrub the decks, climb the rigging,shark and aye aye captain. @SmithdownPr #smithdowneyfs #smithdownpe
Here is a link for Reception families to share the You Choose at home #smithdowneyfs
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We are enjoying You Choose by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart this week in literacy #smithdowneyfs
We are enjoying You Choose as our focus for literacy this week- we are choosing a home that we would live in #smithdowneyfs
Lots of time to develop communication skills in Reception #smithdowneyfs
Moving in different ways in PE #smithdowneyfs #smithdownpe
Matching arrangements of objects and pictures to the correct number #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths
Creating our homes using collage and paint
We love incorporating baking into our Understanding the World lessons! We watched how the cake mixture changed state after we added water. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownsci
Exploring changes of state through messy play. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownsci
Making unicorn ? playdough today to develop fine motor skills and see what happens when cornflour is mixed with hair conditioner #smithdowneyfs #smithdownsci
We are busy thinking about homes ? this week and creating our homes #smithdowneyfs
We are busy making chocolate cakes this afternoon #smithdowneyfs
We have been using our listening skills and following instructions in PE this week. #smithdownpe @SmithdownPr
One of our superstars has planted some apple ? seeds to see if they grow #smithdownsci #smithdowneyfs
This week we are talking about our families and we would love the children to bring in a photograph of who is important in their lives #smithdowneyfs Many thanks
Our first PE session in Reception #smithdowneyfs #smithdownpe
In maths we are making arrangements of 1, 2 and 3 #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths
Lots of imaginative play this afternoon #smithdowneyfs
We all love our music lessons with Mrs Naylor! #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic
Our first PE lesson in the hall. We followed Mrs Carpenters instructions on how to find a space, stop and go. We even played a game called traffic lights. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownpe @SmithdownPr
A great afternoon of playing to develop our friendships #smithdowneyfs
What an amazing first week we’ve had! #smithdowneyfs
Working as a team playing games with the parachute #smithdowneyfs
This afternoon we have had fun working as a team playing games with our parachute #smithdowneyfs
We enjoyed our very first music lesson yesterday! #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic
A Reception superstar has created a volcano ? with lava #smithdowneyfs
We love being in Reception and making new friends #smithdowneyfs
A fun afternoon playing with our friends in reception! ☀️ #smithdowneyfs
What a fantastic first morning we had in Reception! #smithdowneyfs
On Tuesday we visited Central Library in our city centre with some of our families and we had a great time sharing books, having a look around the children section of the library and even going onto the roof to see the skyline of Liverpool.
We had lots of fun playing games using hoops in Reception.
Here are some of our activities this winter time.
This week we are comparing amounts of objects up to 10 to see which groups have more, fewer or the same.
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.
We enjoyed making cakes last week. 
It’s been a super first few weeks in Reception.
We had lots of fun in Reception on our Santa Dash!
