'W'

In amongst the chaos of Christmas Concerts we are going to be looking at the letter 'w' this week.  Lots of fun activities planned.  Our class role-play has been transformed again, this time into Santa's Workshop, looking forward to seeing lots of busy elves this week! If you can try and get concert costumes in ASAP that would be great.  If you are struggling for ideas or need some help, please don't hesitate to ask.

We have been really busy since our last post, hence it taking so long! we have been working on the letters b, d, and r and have been doing lots of work with Numicon.  We have also started practising hard for our Christmas concert and are getting really excited about showing off all our hard work.  If you have any queries or questions regarding the Christmas concert don't hesitate to ask and hopefully I can point you in the right direction!  Our studyladder has been updated and there will be pictures posted soon.  Just a reminder Mrs Hobrow's leaving assembly is 11 o'clock on the 20th of December.  It is a secret though so shhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Our School Trip!

Last week we were lucky enough to go on a school trip to Cardiff, to make our new attendance mascot - Yma Dim-Absennol.  We had a great day out, riding the escalators, playing with Lego, exploring the museum and of course making our mascot in build a bear.

The Vowels!

This week we have been doing lots of fun things with the vowels.  We have made paper alligators for the letter 'a', hand print elephants for 'e' and shiny igloos for the  'i'.  Today we have been making and decorating octopus for the letter 'o'. we also had to work out how many tentacles he had!  Take a look at how we got on.

Have a great Half Term everyone! stay safe and have a Happy Halloween 

Update!

Hi at last I have managed to work the blog and put up pictures.  Check out what we have been up to!! We have been super busy as usual!

 

Our new role play is a garage! It has recently had another improvement! It seems to be very popular!

 

We have also been practising writing the letter g! We have been growing cress and writing in a variety of forms, with dappers, pencils and glitter! 

F

This week we will be looking at the letter 'f'.  We have been making fish and singing songs about frogs and firemen (not at the same time unfortunately!) all day.  Studyladder activities have been posted all to do with the letter 'f''.  If you have a spare few minutes please try and have a go!! I will be putting up some photos (a 'f' phoneme made by the 'ph' digraph!!) up very soon, they will all been taken by our very own classroom photographers!

thank you

A big thank you personally for all the gifts and kind words! We are getting back into the swing of things in class and have been working on the letter N this week. There are studyladder tasks now posted! I will be putting photos up by the end of the week. Thank you again.

This week our letter is 'p'

after a week of working with the letter 't' we are moving on this week to work with the 'p' sound.  Some activites have been posted on study ladder concerned with the letter 'p'.  If you could take a couple of minutes out of your time that would be great! I will be posting up some photos in the very near future, keep checking in to see what we have all been up to.

't'

This week we will be focusing on the 't' letter (grapheme) and the 't' sound (phoneme).  There are a now a few study ladder activities about the letter 't' set as new tasks.  If you have a spare minute please have a go! Good Luck!

P.E Day

Our P.E day this year is going to be Monday.  We will be doing P.E mostly inside so inside kit needed (T-Shirt and Shorts)  If there are any changes, I shall let you know. Thank you  :)

Study Ladder

Our class page on study ladder is: http://www.studyladder.co.uk/myschool/203915/myclass/469761,  Have a little look around.  If you click on your little avatar (cartoon person) it should take you in to a home page. I have set a couple of tasks to have a go at, all to do with the letter 's' ( 's' is our letter sound of the week this week) There is also a number game to have a go at.  Look forward to seeing how you all get on!

Reading Days!

As of next week I shall be starting the following reading days:

Monday - Caitlin, Murrin, Keely

Tuesday - Thomas, Ava-Mai, Rhys

Wednesday - Mitchell, Holly, Ieuan

Thursday - Corey-Lee, Zack, Amelie

Friday - Lukas, Bethany, Paigeleigh

If you can make effort to make sure your children have their reading books in on these days I can make sure that I get  to read with your child at least once a week.  If there are any problems please don't hesitate to ask!

Study Ladder

I have set up a online learning site for the children via www.studyladder.co.uk.  Each child in the class is to be given their own unique username and password which will be sent home in a letter along with a brief description of what study ladder is and how it works.  Basically It is a website which allows me to set little revision games and tasks for the children to complete at home, they are all pretty straightforward and easy to follow. I am hoping this year to bridge the gap between home and school and I think this will be an excellent way of helping children engage in their learning.

It's All Change.

Just a quick post to outline some of the changes that have been made since your children have returned to school (they have all been absolutely fantastic! Very proud teacher already!!).

-Can you please drop children off for school at the back (where they used to go in Nursery.) I will be in class and letting children through the fire door around the back from 9:05.

-Fruit tuck is now £1.50 a week, for that the children can choose their own piece of fruit to eat at break time everyday.

-This year the children are to be a given a designated reading day, I will be putting the list of the names and days on the blog by the end of the week.  I know that we all lead very busy lives but if you could please make the effort to read and record weekly, that will be a great help to me, but more importantly to the children.

-Hopefully this new blog will be a good means of communication, I will be working hard to update it on a regular basis, so keep checking back for any updates or notices.  It will also be a chance for you to see what we all get up to in school.

Hello and Welcome

A big welcome back to everyone in Reception :) I hope that you all have had a lovely Summer Holidays and are ready for an exciting new school year.  Our topic term is going to be Family Album, which I am sure will be lots of fun.  If your lucky I may even bring in some of my embarrassing photos of when I was your age!  

I will be keeping the blog updated with photos and descriptions of what we have all been up to as well as notifying parents of important dates and notices. So if you could keep checking the blog that would be great. 

Look forward to seeing you all soon in your brand new classroom.

Mr Arthur