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Nov 18
Maths this week
This week during maths the children have continued to engage with activities that underline the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how many’ objects there are altogether. Our key focus this week has been deepening the children’s understanding of 5 as a quantity by linking the number itself to the 5 fingers on one …
Nov 12
This Week in Reception
Hello Elephants and Zebras, What a busy week! On Monday we went to our first whole school Assembly and we did such good sitting and listening! Padre Nicoll told us about Remembrance Day and why it is important. During the week we made some beautiful poppies, do you like them? We have started a new …
Nov 10
Maths this week
In Maths this week we have been looking at the comparison of quantities. We have focused on developing this innate skill by encouraging the children to look carefully and use the language of comparison to describe sets of objects that they can see. Adults have modelled the language of ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’ when …
Nov 04
Maths
This week in Reception the children have been building on their subitising skills. They have continued to use perceptual subitising and instant recognition by saying the number of sounds that they can hear, such as claps or beats of the drum without needing to count. We have also encouraged the children to represent quantities in …
Oct 22
This Week in Reception
Hello Elephants and Zebras, This week we have been looking at our own adventures based on the Magic Porridge Pot. After working on the story together we went off and invented our own story based on the text. Some children decided to find some magic shoes that could fly them to wherever they wanted to …
Oct 21
Maths this week
This week during maths the children have been exploring how numbers can be composed of 1s and, from this, begin to investigate the composition of 3 and 4. Composing and de-composing numbers involves the children investigating part-whole relations e.g seeing that number 3 can be made from 1 and 2. Here are some examples of …
Oct 15
This Week in Reception
Hello Elephants and Zebras, This week we have been adapting our Magic Porridge Pot stories. Elephants chose to make magic milkshakes and Zebras opted for magic soup! We loved seeing them come up with their own ideas on how we can adapt the story. We are learning to “Retell the story, once they have developed …
Oct 14
Numbers of the week
In reception this week we have been learning ” how to link the numeral with its cardinal number value”. (Development Matters 2021) We have been focusing on the numbers 9 and 0 and practising how to write them. We have used these little rhymes to help us: 9 – Make a loop and then …
Oct 07
This week in Reception
Hello Elephants and Zebras, This week we have moved on to a new story in Literacy called The Magic Porridge Pot. We now know the story with our Talk for Writing actions and we have made puppets at school – ask the children to retell the story. We are learning to “Listen to and talk …
Oct 01
Number of the week
In reception this week we have been learning ” how to link the numeral with its cardinal number value”. (Development Matters 2021) We have been focusing on the numbers 5 and 6 and practising how to write it. We have used these little rhymes to help us: 5 Down and around then a flag …