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St Edward's Reception Class
2020-2021 St Edward's Reception Class is taught by Mrs Riordan, Miss Lewis and supported by Miss Wilson.
Our fantastic new Year R children have completed their first full week at school! Everyone has settled in well, making new friends and having lots of fun too!
What an amazing Friday! We have celebrated Rainbow Day for the NHS, created bunting and pictures to say thank you. This afternoon we joined in with lots of fun football activities to celebrate England in the final!
We had a fantastic afternoon when the Ice Cream Van came to visit!
Our Kings and Queens dress up day to kick start our new topic. Don't we look fabulous!
We have been reading a new story called Beegu and joining in with lots of space themed activities. In Maths we have been focusing on 3d shapes, learning new vocabulary like edges, faces and vertices. We have been very lucky to get balance bikes and had lots of fun trying them out!
Number Day! We had a very busy number day. We had a number hunt, played number bingo, solved number problems, drew numbers with chalk and counted amounts, counted and matched amounts, recognised and coloured numbers, played a chase games of astronauts and aliens and counted how many we had and compared who had the most and least. During snack and lunch time we joined in with number songs.
We used tissue paper to create flowers to make a wreath for Mary.
We have been helping Mrs Neeves with the garden area and pond.
Easter Egg Hunt
Easter Bonnet Parade
Easter - We have spent lots of time reading the Easter story, sequencing the story, making cards and chocolate cakes, decorating eggs and crosses.
Reflection Day - Today we shared an assembly, talked about Coronavirus and had reflection time. We then went for a walk around the school to look at daffodils. We then created our own sun catcher daffodils to create a happy display in our classroom.
SCIENCE WEEK - We have been doing lots of different Science activities, linked to our story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. On Monday we melted wax to create paintings. On Tuesday we created our own ice gardens and put it in the freezer. On Wednesday we created flitter bottles. On Thursday we used real food to create a crunch building, butterfly and cocoon. In addition to this, we have been drawing and writing about the life cycles of butterflies. We now even have our own caterpillars growing in class!
WORLD BOOK DAY - This week we have been busy creating our own Dear Zoo book, measuring animals, creating masks and characters and using construction to create something from our favourite stories. We have also joined in with whole school activities of finding somewhere crazy (but safe) to read and recreating front covers of books.
9th February - Today is Internet Safety Day. First we shared a story about Buddy the Dog and how to ask for help when on the internet. Then we shared a story about Smartie the Penguin and spoke about different scenarios and what we should do next. We then created Smartie the Penguin masks and drew what we enjoyed most on our tablets with a sentence to match.
Our fun in the SNOW!
This week in RE we read the scripture about Jesus choosing Disciples. We read the story about when Jesus saw the men in their fishing boats but didn't catch anything and then Jesus told them to go back into the water and they caught loads of fish! We have been pretending to be Simon and fishing, we have made and decorated fish and also made our own pictures of being in a boat.
In RE, we have been drawing pictures of the Holy Family, writing speech bubbles as if we were Mary and what we would say to Jesus when she lost him in the temple, building our own temples and pretending to have our own feast.
We have been researching about where in the world we live compared to the Antarctica. We then got set a task by Miss Pataria to show her what it is like there in our own way ... Here is our amazing work!
We have researched and had a look at art work created by David Abbey Paige. Take a look at some of our art work based on this artist.
We have been reading Goldilocks and The Three Bears. We have been drawing our own story maps and making chairs for a bear using resources we have at home. In Maths we have been ordering objects by their size. We have been talking about different feelings, taste testing toppings on porridge and keeping up with sharing stories.
We have been learning about Jesus and his family. We acted out being Jesus when he was little - playing games and helping Mary at home, we pretended to be Mary and doing jobs like cooking and cleaning. We learnt that Joseph was a carpenter and so we pretended to build and make things out of wood.
Term 3 - We are now doing our learning at home, with videos from Miss Pataria everyday we can join in with fun activities. This week we are reading The Gingerbread Man. In English we are drawing and writing sentences for a story map. In Maths we have been adding one more and writing number sentences. We have been doing lots of art and craft as well as a Science activity to see if we could build a bridge to help the Gingerbread man over the river.
Come on let's do the conga!
Christmas jumper day, Christmas dinner day & party afternoon! We have had a day full of festive fun.
Christmas Time in Year R. Our wonderful nativity plus our birthday party and some happy photos! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Although are doing our learning at home we are enjoying reading our new story Stick Man. We have been making our own stick men, counting and learning to work out how many we have altogether and playing phonics games to help with our sounding out and blending.
We had fun balancing different objects on our partner and seeing if they could balance on one leg!
Rudolf Balloon Race
We have been working hard with Mrs Flain to create and take part in a Science experiment called Rudolf Balloon Races. We had to make the Rudolf Balloons before we raced them. We spoke about how high or low we wanted the string to be and why we wanted it this way. We spoke about who the winner was and why they won.
Enjoy the video!
Enjoy the video!
We have been reading Santa's Suitcase. We have been sorting clothes for hot and cold places and looking at where we live in the world. In Maths we have been weighing objects using scales.
We have been learning about God's Family. Today we learnt that Angel Gabriel visited Mary and told her she was going to have a baby called Jesus. We made our own angels, drew flowers for Mary and acted out being Angel Gabriel telling Mary the news.
We watched an animation about Remembrance Day and why poppies are so significant. We created our own poppies and had 2 minutes silence.
We have been reading The Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas this week. We have been drawing and writing what might be inside an egg. We have been using natural resources to feed dinosaurs, counting them and writing the number to match. This week has also been maths challenge week. Our challenge was to create a chair for a doll. We decided to use construction. We had fun making the chairs and seeing if our chosen doll would sit on it.
We have been reading Dinosaurs Love Underpants! We have enjoyed painting pictures of our own dinosaur, drawing and writing descriptions and using dice to count out amounts. We have been enjoying afternoons on the field with Bryn too!
We have been exploring how to move in different ways including running, jumping, hopping, skipping, balancing and side stepping!
We have been reading We are going on a bear hunt. We created our own class story map and actions. We went on our own bear hunt autumn walk. We have also been exploring 2d shapes and using numicon to help us with our numbers 0-10.
RE - Caring for God's World. We found rubbish outside and collected it, we created mobiles to show something we care for in our world, we sorted things that show care and don't show care for our world, we retold the story of how the world was created.
This week we have been on a number hunt to recognise numbers and we have been identifying pictures and words that rhyme.
RE - We have continued to learn about God's world. We worked in groups to sort things that God did and did not make, we painted our favourite animals, we created our own 'world' scene.
We have been learning about positional language. We have been using our outside area to help us use the language on, under, in between, next to, behind and in front.
Our first RE lesson we learnt about God's World. We went for a walk outside to find things that God made, painted out own pictures and explored animals in the water and shaving foam.
Here is a little preview of us doing Squiggle!
Squiggle! This is a dance activity we do everyday, first with flappers and then with pens to help build up our muscles ready for writing. We have great fun!
Our First Week at School. We have been busy getting to know our school and classroom, circle time, creating hand prints and self portraits using paint, making friends, building and even story yoga!
Our Lady of Fatima Display
St. Edward's Hall Display 2019
End of Term 6 - We had a party themed day, we made party hats, played with balloons and played party games.
We have enjoyed speaking about our trip to the Church before lock down, drawing our own pictures of the church and labelling as well as decorating our own crosses.
We have been reading lots of stories based on Pirates, the Seaside and the Summer. We have been using our phonics to write descriptive sentences to match pictures. We have been adding, subtracting and even writing our own number sentences. We have had lots of fun making jelly fish, parrots, pirate swords, buckets and much more using different materials.
Science experiment - Our predictions and results.
Science Experiment - How many drops of water can you get on a 2p coin before it starts to fall off? We experimented using a pipette, a syringe, a small jug and a cup. We made predictions before finding out the amount. We also compared different coins (1p, 2p and 5p)
RE - A Short Man. We have been reading the scripture about Jesus and Zacchaeus. We have been acting this out, writing our own sorry messages and creating medals of how we have been brave.
Science Week - Exploring space figures in the cornflour.
Science Week - Exploring Balloons using our senses.
Pyjama Day for our new topic - Space and Night Time
World Book Day
Our first mass in Church
Our R.E display.
Today we learnt how Jesus cured a man at Bethsaida. We created our own class prayer for those who are sick.
We took part in The Great British Bird Watch and recorded the different types of birds we could see.
This week we have been exploring 'Sink or Float'. Year R have had a fantastic time testing their predictions. Some results were a surprise!
We celebrated Chinese New Year by getting involved in lots of activities.
The Dog's Trust came to visit us at school, to teach us about the Five Happy Dog Rules. We had lots of fun taking part in the assembly.
We had a fantastic time looking for The Gingerbread Man! The whole school were involved and when we finally found him, he had a bag of ingredients so we could make our very own Gingerbread Men.
We've been very busy helping the elves in Santa's workshop!
Year 6 visited to show us their fantastic circuit boards they had made in Science. We even got to have a go!
We've had a fantastic start to the term, making new friends and becoming a part of the St Edward's family.
Monday 23rd September we had a special visitor that taught us all about Road Safety.
23/9/19, This week we have had a whole school theme of 'outdoor Learning'
Look below to see what fantastic learning opportunities last year's St. Edward's Class had.....
July 2019 We had a fantastic time visiting the beach with the rest of the school! We looked for different things that were smooth or rough, as we will be using this in our lessons along with writing a Diary entry about our time spent at the beach.
June 2019 BEEP BEEP ! Today we visited Seashells and learnt all about road safety and of course had lots of fun getting wet in the car wash !
24/5/19 Ice creams for all !
The Time Travelling Botanist's play came to visit St.Edward's .
Letting our imaginations run wild with Poddely !
Easter Bonnet Parade
Food Technology
Nest making- Signs of Spring.
Planting saplings and shrubs
.WOW....what a fantastic sight ! #WBD 8/3/19
We've had a fantastic couple of weeks celebrating Chinese New Year in St Edward's Class , from learning to say Happy New Year in Cantonese to the challenge of eating rice and noodles with chop sticks .We even had a Chinese restaurant in our classroom!
We had a fabulously frosty snow and ice day in foundation stage! Infact we enjoyed it so much we are going to continue this theme in our learning this term.
We started the new term with a bang!
We looked at fireworks and explored the language that describes them and used a variety of media to create different representations.
Reception Class celebrated Diwali through the story of Rama and Sita, learning the meaning of light to Hindus. We carefully followed instructions to make salt dough for our diva lamps. Our work looked closely at repeated patterns and Rangoli. For a special treat we tasted some traditional Diwali sweets called Laddu. To finish our celebrations we took part in a Bollywood workshop and at the end of the day we were a part of a whole school performance to our families.
St.Edward's Class went on a Bear Hunt ! 05/10/18
