Year R

Making lanterns for the Totton lantern parade.

Year R would like to say a big thank you to the artists who visited us in school this week to teach us how to make lanterns.

These lanterns are currently drying but they will be coming home soon in time for the Totton lantern parade.

Week beginning: 18.11.24

Supertato, snow and lanterns

What an exciting week for our Year R children! We had great fun playing in the falling snow, and discovering ice in our tough trays. We have been very busy creating super vegetables, exploring five frames and making lanterns.

Week Beginning 11th November 2024

Children in Need

Year R enjoyed celebrating Children in Need with lots of fun activities. We decorated biscuits, played games and did Pudsey colouring. Thankyou to everyone that made a donation to the charity!

Maths

This week we have learnt how to subitise and represent numbers to 5. We all worked hard to recognise up to 5 objects placed in different ways, without having to count them.

Writing

We are all progressing well with our phonics and enjoyed the challenge of an outdoor word hunt this week. The children found pictures dotted around the Year R playground and used their phonics knowledge to sound out and write each 3 letter word. Well done everyone!

Week beginning: 14th October 2024

Making bread in Year R

"Who will help us bake the bread?"asked the little red hen. 

Year R have been sharing the traditional tale The Little Red Hen and exploring how bread is made. They enjoyed measuring, mixing, kneading and shaping bread rolls. The best bit was smelling and eating the delicious bread.

Year R had a visitor called Claire this week who works as the community champion at  Morrisons. She talked to us about how bread is made and the different types of bread they make in the bakery. She also very kindly brought in a range of breads for us to try.

Thank you Claire and the kind donations from Morrisons.

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Week Beginning Monday 7th October

Year R have loved reading ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. They started the week by making their own porridge and testing different toppings. The children chose their most and least favourite and shared their views with their class. They then made ‘Teddy Bear toast’, which was great fun and delicious! The children have also enjoyed singing the Goldilocks song, retelling the story in the role play, making 3 bears from playdough or tapping shapes and creating drawings of all the characters. What a busy week!

In Maths this week we have sung lots of number songs, counted forwards and backwards to 10 and practised recognising numerals and ordering number cards to 5. We then introduced finding 1 more than a number to 5 by adding 1 more toy or taking one more jump on a number line. Everyone has worked very hard and had lots of fun!

Week Beginning 30th September

This week in year R we have enjoyed listening and responding to 'The Gingerbread Man' story. We've designed some of our own gingerbread characters and had fun making gingerbread people out of play dough. We've learnt the first four letter sounds, m, a, s and d and tried hard to write these using Hazel wood handwriting. Well done everyone!

Week beginning: 16th September 2024

This week has seen the Year R children staying for lunch and then from Wednesday for the whole day. They have impressed their teachers with their independence and resilience learning many new routines.  

They have enjoyed painting self portraits by looking closely in the mirror at their eye and hair colour.

We have been singing number rhymes and looking at some pictures cards that will help us to learn the sounds in phonics.

Week Beginning Monday 9^th September

We are all very proud of how the children have settled into school life. They are quickly learning the rules and routines and are all coming into school happily. The children have confidently explored their classrooms and the Year R outdoor area. They have made new friends and enjoyed playing with all the exciting resources!