Learning Journey – Autumn 1
Week 1
WOW! What an amazing first week in Reception! The children have all settled well and have made many new friends. We have been super impressed at how well they have been learning together, sharing and listening to what they have been asked to do. The children have been very kind to one another and love to receive lots of praise from their teachers. It is not only the staff in Reception who have been impressed, teachers and staff from around school have also noticed how smart they look in their uniforms, how well they eat and play together. Well Done! You are all Superstars!
Have a look at what we got up to in our first week-
Drawing club- Not Now Bernard
We enjoyed listening to the story ‘Not Now Bernard’ by David McGee. In drawing club we listen to a story, learn new vocabulary, draw a character, draw a setting and draw a I wonder question. Drawing club will help us to build our imagination and confidence to write.
New Vocabulary- gobble, destroy, ignore and fearsome
Draw a character- A monster to eat mum and dad
Draw a setting- Bernard’s house
Adventure Time– I wonder…? What will the monster eat to take away the taste of Bernard?
Week 2
The week started off with listening to our new core text ‘Once we were giants’. There was lots of discussion around who the giants were and how the little baby became a giant at the end of the story. Thank you to all those parents who posted baby photos. The children thoroughly enjoyed guessing who they were. PE lessons were a success with the children getting dressed and showing off their fundamental skills.
Drawing club included lots of laughter and amazing drawings about a character, setting and adventure time from the story ‘The Hairy Toe’.
Other activities that have been enjoyed, explored and persevered with are: drawing black and white self portraits, making birthday cakes from junk modelling, sorting and matching objects in maths, name writing and learning the phonemes s, a, t and p.
Drawing Club- The Hairy Toe
We enjoyed listening to the story ‘The Hairy Toe’ by Daniel Postgate. In drawing club we listen to a story, learn new vocabulary, draw a character, draw a setting and draw a I wonder question. Drawing club will help us to build our imagination and confidence to write.
New Vocabulary- Creep, distant, swirling and fearful
Draw a character- What does the monster look like?
Draw a setting-The old woman’s house
Adventure Time– I wonder…? The old monster wants to trap the monster. What should she build?
Week 3
The week started off with listening to our new core text ‘Together we can’. This book is a joyful celebration of friendship including what friends are, how to make friends and how to BE a friend! The children have loved talking about what a friend is, making their friends from junk modelling and learning alongside their friends.
Another successful week in PE. On a Monday they practised the different ways to travel such as hopping, jumping and travelling along a bench. On Wednesday they practised the fundamentals of jumping over low hurdles.
Drawing club included lots of laughter and amazing drawings about a character, setting and adventure time from the animation of ‘Wacky Races’.
Other activities that have been enjoyed, explored and persevered with are: painting black and white family pictures, creating their friend from junk modelling, comparing amounts in maths, name writing and learning the phonemes i, n, m and d.
Week 4
The week started off with listening to our new core text ‘Find your Happy’. Feeling happy is a wonderful thing! But do you ever feel sad or angry, frightened or shy? Everyone does sometimes, but with a little help from Sloth and the people you love, there is always a way to FIND YOUR HAPPY! The children loved listening to this story and talking about how they feel at different times.
Another successful week in PE. On a Monday they practised the different ways to travel such as hopping, jumping and travelling along a bench. On Wednesday they practised the fundamentals of throwing beanbags and balls into a hoop.
Other activities that have been enjoyed, explored and persevered with are: drawing what makes us happy, painting with autumn colours, comparing mass and capacity in maths and name writing and learning the phonemes g, o, c and k.
To end the week we went on our first walk to Memorial Park in search of Autumn. We collect lots of leaves, pine cones, sticks and sycamore seeds to use in class next week.
Week 5
The week started off with listening to our new core text ‘Little Red Hen and Leafman’. Leaf Man, by Lois Ehlert tells the story of man made of leaves and his journey over the earth’s landscape and the wonderful sights he sees as well as the friends he makes. The children used the leaves they collected at Memorial Park to create their own leaf persons.
The Little Red Hen story taught the children about the importance of hard work and working together. We discussed the terms ‘fair’ and ‘not fair’.
Other activities that have been enjoyed, explored and persevered with are: painting the characters from the story, using junk modelling materials to build the animals from the story, baked bread, copied and created AB patterns in maths and learnt new phonemes ck, e, u and r.
Week 6
The week started off with listening to our new core text ‘People who help us!’ Introducing the roles of those in uniform and members within the community that children can trust, this popular collection is a great starting point to talking and finding out about all the people who help. PC Nick visited the children on Wednesday to tell them all about this job and how he helps people. The children really enjoyed asking him questions and trying on the different uniforms.
Other activities that have been enjoyed, explored and persevered with are: painting people who help us,PE, using the Beebots to program around the 1, 2,3 houses and learnt new phonemes h, b, l/ll, f/ff, ss.
Week 7
The week started off with listening to our new core text ‘Real Superheroes!’ Some superheroes have capes and trusty sidekicks too, but how many of these superheroes have ever rescued you? Who are the real superheroes that keep our world safe? This week had Col our school chef came to tell us all about his job and then on Wednesday we enjoyed a trip to the local Lifeboat station. The children enjoyed listening to how these people help them.
Other activities that have been enjoyed were building emergency vehicles from junk modelling, finding one more/less than 1, 2 or 3, and listening to the music from Fantasia in Music.
