We have been working hard on using our ‘Fred Fingers’ in phonics. Can the children show you the correct hand and fingers we use when writing CVC words? In Maths the children were introduced to the bar model as a visual to help record our work when solving Maths problems. The children have had great fun exploring the Ozobot’s. They are a miniature robot which is very clever at following lines and changing colours. The children used our work on body parts and watched carefully as the Ozobot’s moved around the template of each body part.

We have been learning all about our 5 senses. We have had great fun exploring the herbs and flowers. We used our sense of smell to describe the different herbs and made our own flower soup! Outside we played I eye spy and went on a sight and sound hunt recording the different objects and sounds we could hear. In Maths this week we have concentrated on the number three. We looked at different triangles and made repeating patterns with them. We have been working on subitising visual representations up to 5 using the dice.

What a great week Reception have had so far! We have been busy with our phonics. Fred has been teaching us lots of important signals to help us during our lessons. We have also been learning the writing rhymes to help us when writing our letters. In Maths we will be focussing on a new number each week which will help the children to deepen their understanding of number. This week it has been number 1. We have had celebrations for Fred’s first birthday and lots of fun 1-minute challenges. The children are really enjoying sharing their family photographs as part of our enhancements. It has been lovely to find out about different family members and family traditions. The children demonstrated their super listening and attention skills for their first Forest School and PE lessons. We were using the hula hoops as our safety bubbles in PE to demonstrate the importance of space when moving around the outdoors to avoid bumping into each other.