Reception Weekly Review

Friday 17th May 2024

 Learning Through Play  

This week the children have enjoyed a week of Learning through Play with a focus around the Midnight Panther and 3D shapes this week. Lots of children have been drawing the panther, writing about big cats and playing with the wild animals. We are impressed with all the imaginative play and rich discussions that are being had during our continuous provision.

 Physical Development  - Outside Play

We are so lucky at Ravenstone to have such a fantastic outdoor space we can explore. The children are lucky to spend time on the turf with Morris, run around outside during playtime and climb the climbing frames. During PE they have moved away from athletics practice and learnt small ball skills using tennis balls this week.

A big congratulations to all the children that took part in Sports day! We were impressed with all the skills and positive attitudes from all the children. Thanks to all the parents who helped and showed their support throughout the day. 

 Phonics 

This week we looked at words with a range of different suffixes such as –ing, -ed, -t, -id, -ed and est. We read words such as swimming, bumped, plumpest and melted. Our tricky words for this week were ‘out’ and ‘today’. A reminder reading practice books will not be sent home next week due to half term approaching. Next week all children will have their five week phonics assessment with their teacher.

Literacy 

This week, we looked at the book, ‘The Midnight Panther’ by Poonam Mistry. The book was about a panther who felt he needed to change himself to fit in with his friends. He covered himself in stripes to be like a tiger, bright colours to be like a lion and spots like leopard. At the end of the story he realised he was special as he was just like midnight and was happiest when roaming around at night. All children wrote a sentence on what made them happy and created a cat mask using the illustrations in the book for inspiration.

Maths

This week in Maths we had a focus on 3D shapes. The children had opportunities to build using 3D shapes, find 3D shapes in images and  name 3D shapes in pairs. In mastering number we looked at the composition of 5. We discussed what numbers make up 5 e.g., 5 and 0, 4 and 1 and 3 and 2. At the end of the week we also looked at 5 and a bit e.g., 5 and 2 make 7 or 5 and 1 make 6.

Understanding The World 

This week we explored Indian art inspired by our new book The Midnight Panther by Poonam Mistry. We looked at the style of art called ‘Kalamkari’ and all had a turn creating cat masks using cotton buds and paints. We all used spots and lines to create patterns in our masks.

 We hope you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the lovely warm weather! Thank you for all your support this half term. 

Very best wishes

Georgie, Jessie, Tara and Maftuha

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Showing assembly

This half term:

Jessie's class will be in the middle hall.
Georgie's class will be in the lower hall.

Reception children will get certificates each week but we will not start sharing our work until after the first half-term break. 

Fund
A huge thank you to the parents who have donated to the school Reception fund.  Please remember to contribute if you can. 

Keep an eye on our important dates:
We will try to add on the relevant dates below but please check the main calendar and Parent Mail for all important dates.

See our 'Reception Information' page for all you need to know about the year.

Remember to follow us on Twitter to see what we are up to during the week. You can find us @RavenstoneEY

Things we need

Fund

In Reception, we often buy items to supplement the children's learning.  From ingredients for playdough to art supplies, small items for you termly themes to large exciting things like the ducklings.  To help pay for all this, we are for a £1 a week voluntary contribution.  If you would like to help, just give anything you can to us in the mornings.  Thank you.

Art

Do you have any of the following?

• Plastic bottle tops
• Boxes – large and small
• toilet rolls
• egg cartons
• cardboard boxes
• plastic bottles
• yoghurt pots
• bubble wrap
• newspapers and magazines
• shells
• CD
• recyclable straws
• Buttons

If you have any of these, we would love to have them.  Thanks