Nov 25
It has been another busy week for us in Reception this week. We have started learning the Christmas story in preparation for our Nativity and we are doing a very good job of learning the words to some of our Christmas songs. Here is the link to Little Donkey if you would like to help …
Nov 25
The comparison of quantities is something that children begin to do as babies. When comparing, children notice attributes and begin to understand similarities and differences. This week we have focused on further developing these innate skills. The children have been encouraged to compare the number of objects in 2 sets by matching them 1:1. We …
Nov 23
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” Charles Swindoll WHAT ARE THE ZONES OF REGULATION®? The Zones of Regulation is a framework by Leah Kuypers. It uses four colours to help children to identify their feelings so that they can work towards regulating them. What is self-regulation?” …
Nov 18
Hello Elephants and Zebras, It is getting colder but it hasn’t stopped us from enjoying the outdoors wrapped up in our coats. From our daily mile exercise, to Mini Explorers, to our maths lessons – they can all be done outside. During Child Initiated Learning the children are encouraged to be creative with the resources …
Nov 18
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
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
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
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
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
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 …