Reception

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

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

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!

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.

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!

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

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.

Year 3 campfire

What a lovely morning with parents we had! We all had a toasted marshmallow, cup of hot chocolate and sang some songs.

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, 👏

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!

Pudsey Bear Biscuits

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

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.

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.

Pumpkin Exploration

We had great fun exploring a pumpkin in Reception.

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.

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-

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!

Phonics in Reception

We are working hard on our phonics this week.

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.

Making Cakes

We enjoyed making cakes last week. 

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.

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!

The Big Teddy Bear Sleepover

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.

Sports Day!

We had a great morning for our sports day! Thank you to all of our families who came to watch!

Eid Picnic

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.

Refugee Week

Last week we talked about what home means to us as part of Refugee Week.

Fantastic Family Picnic

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.

The Pirates Next Door

Here is a link to this week’s story if you would like to share it at home.

Pirates Ahead!

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.

Forest School

We had a great time creating dens at Forest School Club. Many thanks to all parents for coming along.

Maths in Reception

We have been using 10 frames to help us count objects and also double numbers.

Eid Mubarak

We really enjoyed celebrating Eid at school. We made cards and talked about how it is celebrated.

Forest School for Parents and Children

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

Ice Cream Shop

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.
 

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch

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.

P.E

Today in P.E we have been practising our balancing skills.

Reception Parents and Children Visit to Calderstones Park

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.

Calderstones Park with Reception Parents and Children

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.

Odd and Even Numbers

In maths this week we are looking at which numbers up to 10 are odd and which are even.

RLMc Farm Trip

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.

The 3 Billy Goats Gruff

We have been loving this week’s book! Look at all of our fantastic work!

Three Billy Goats Bridge

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.

Making bread

We have been very busy making bread just like the little red hen.

Listening to the harp in music today.

Reception have been listening to Mrs Naylor play the harp in our music lesson today!

Chef hats

We used our cutting skills to make chef hats.

The Little Red Hen