Our Reception class is called Hedgehogs
Our Class teachers are Mrs Jordan and Mrs Parr
Our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Taylor
Welcome back to a new school year! We have lots of fun adventures planned!
Term Two
This term our Big Question is 'What if I Danced all Night?'
This week we have carried on the Christmas theme and had lots of fun making reindeer food, creating Christmas lists, doing our class Nativity and having a Christmas Craft afternoon.
This week we have been getting into the Christmas spirit in Hedgehogs class. We have been decorating our class tree, practising our class nativity and having fun doing Christmas activities. We also had fun jetting off to Germany on another Faraway Friday.
This week we have been celebrating our class puppet's birthday! We have made party hats, used our phonic knowledge to write lists, made birthday cards, baked some delicious cakes, thrown a birthday party and played party games.
We have had a colourful week learning about Diwali. We have made coconut barfi, acted out the story of Rama and Sita and enjoyed accessing all the different activities.
This week we have been looking at Remembrance and discussing some of the important people in our own lives that serve in the military. We have also enjoyed dressing up for Children in Need and exploring the activities in our classroom and outdoor area.
Fizz, Bang, Pop! We have been learning about Guy Fawkes this week and having lots of fun with all the activities. We have built our own bonfire, made fireworks, created repeating patterns and made wonderful fireworks pictures.
Term One
This term our Big Question is 'What if we had Superpowers?'
Diwali workshop
In preparation for our learning next term, we had a special workshop where we learned a special dance about the Diwali story.
Phonics
We've been working really hard learning our phonic sounds.
With only one final full week before half term left, we have been looking at some of the important skills we need in our learning. We have been focusing on scissor skills, fine motor and learning to use Numicon which will help us with our math's problems as we progress through the year.
We're going on a villain hunt
This week we went on a villain hunt based on the story 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. We came to school dressed as our favourite superhero, decided where we would go, the things we would see and the sounds we would hear. We particularly liked 'Pitter-Splattering' over the thick, wet sand! We also had a visit from Nurse Gowen who spoke about her job and showed us some of the things she uses as part of her job. We loved helping her bandage up some of her injured friends.
Real Life Superheroes
We've been thinking about real life superheroes and were so excited when Fire Officer Davina came to visit us. She talked about her job and we learned about some of the tools and equipment firefighters use in their job. We had great fun putting on their uniform too. We were also introduced to an old telephone and had lots of fun ringing some of our heroes using a special telephone book
Supertato
What a shock we had when we arrived in class to discover the vegetables Mrs. Jordan had brought in for her lunch had been captured! We soon realised it was Evil Pea, and set about resolving the issue. We used scissor skills to make our own Supertato characters and then searched around school looking for clues. We drew maps to show the way we had travelled using circle, straight and zigzag pencil marks; it is important to work on these movements before moving on to writing letters
Mr Freeze
This week the children were shocked to find our class friend Lucy had disappeared. After following some clues we discover Mr. Freeze had captured her. We worked as a team to build a trap to catch her and thankfully Lucy was returned, unharmed!
What an amazing start to the school year. Our new Hedgehogs have settled in amazingly and are already following their new rules and routines brilliantly!
