Reception

VE Day celebrations!

DUCKLINGS🐣

We had our lovely ducklings these past few weeks :) we had cuddles, watched them swim and do lots of poos 😂 

We learned lots about ducks and how they hatch. We will miss them lots!

The children loved their walk to Smethwick Library. We walked to the library and the children were amazing, we then got to explore the books, understand how libraries work and learn what you can do there. The children got to take out their own books to bring back to school. We can’t wait to go back!

In maths, the children have been working hard on the composition of numbers to 10. Recently we have been focusing on the numbers 6, 7 and 8. We have done this in several ways. Pictorial: where the children represent the numbers e.g. making 6 goats by having five on the bridge and one by the river. Practically: with cubes, their fingers, objects. We have also tried to deepen their understanding by showing them a part e.g. 4 counters and asking the children to discuss “if there are 8 counters altogether how many are missing?”

In literacy we are focusing on trying to write sentences using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.  When writing words we want the children to use their phonics knowledge to hear the phonemes (sounds) in words and write the correct graphemes (letters ). Here are some examples of how the children are getting on. We are so proud of them!