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We had lots of fun playing reading games with our parents and carers this week. We did a challenge word hunt, played a real and alien words game, snakes and ladders and challenge word bingo. It was lots of fun!

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This week in Music we have been exploring the musical instruments and the different sounds they make. We had lots of fun playing the instruments, singing and moving to music. Well done Reception

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This week in Outdoor learning we have been exploring the outdoor area looking for animal habitats. We saw lots of animals and insects whilst we were exploring too. We had lots of fun.

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We have had a wonderful day celebrating the beginning of our new topic all about animals. We read the story Handa's Surprise and then we acted out the story together which was lots of fun! We made African necklaces, animal masks and bracelets. We enjoyed playing in our Pet Shop too.

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This week we have been Maths detectives finding and exploring numbers beyond 10. We used the unifix cubes to make numbers beyond 10.

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We have loved exploring the iPads to create our favourite animal pictures this week. Reception were super at using their magic pointing finger to draw their animals. Well done Reception.

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Our Outdoor Learning session this week was all about looking for the signs of Spring. We found blossom, flowers, green leaves and could hear the birds tweeting in the trees.

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We had lots of fun participating in Red Nose Day activities

this week. We loved drawing our own faces with a red Nose. Well done Reception

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Our story this week was 'Pumpkin Soup' by Helen Cooper, so we decided to make our own vegetable soup. We chopped up carrots, parsnips, swede and potatoes to make our delicious soup. We all enjoyed eating it and thought it was very tasty!

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We have loved exploring the apparatus in PE this week. We loved finding different ways to travel along the apparatus, especially the wall bars. Well done Reception.

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The week in Reception we have been little litter warriors and have participated in litter picking in the playground. Well done Reception.

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This week we have been acting out and writing about 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. Today we tasted different fruit and made our own fruit salad. We loved them all but we had to vote for our favourite fruit and strawberry was the winner!

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We had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day and we all looked amazing in our costumes. We had fun drawing our favourite story characters, making book marks and we went outside and found all the letters in the book trail! Some of the Year 3 children came to read to us and Mrs Vaqueiro read us some stories too.

It was lots of fun!

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In PE today we were practising lots of different skills on the apparatus. We were balancing, jumping, rolling and climbing. It was lots of fun!

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We had so much fun in Reception on our Italian Day. We made our own pizzas, pasta necklaces and bracelets, Italian flags and played in our Italian Restaurant. We also had a party in the afternoon and ate yummy pasta and ice-cream!

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We enjoyed it when our parents came in to school to help us with our Maths activities. We all had lots of fun showing them how good we are at doubling!

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We have had lots of fun doubling and counting this week in Maths. We have made number flowers, our own Number block 6 and 8 and went on a double hunt for Maths day. Well done Reception

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We have been exploring our outside area using our senses to draw things we can see, hear and touch.

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We have been programming our Mouse-bots by giving them instructions using their buttons. We have had lots of fun. Well done Reception.

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We have had lots of fun acting out the story of The Three Little Pigs. We then wrote a sentence about our favourite part of the story. Most of us enjoyed it when the wolf landed in the pot!

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We have loved participating in the Big Bird Watch this week. We were very excited when spotting the birds in our outdoor area. Well done Reception.

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Today we welcomed our families into the classroom to read some stories with us. We enjoyed sharing our favourite books with them.

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Today in PE we were learning how to do a pencil roll. We were very good at making our bodies very long and straight with pointy fingers and toes. It was then quite tricky to roll but we all managed to do it very well.

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This week in Maths we have been learning about Zero. We had lots of fun recording how many frogs jumped inside and outside the hoop. Well done Reception

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We have had lots of fun this week celebrating Christmas. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New year.

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This week we have been baking and decorating Christmas biscuits for our Enterprise workshop. We had lots of fun making them.

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A huge well done to Reception for their wonderful performance of 'A Miracle in Town'. You were amazing!

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This week we have been reading real and alien words. We really enjoyed feeding the alien words to the greedy monster!

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We had lots of fun on Math's Day learning all about numbers 4 and 5. We made numberblocks out of paper and card and we had lots of fun playing frogs in the hoop!

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We have been exploring number 4 and number 5. We have had lots of fun making 4 and 5 in different ways using the unifix cubes.

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These are the sounds we have been learning this week. Can you say these sounds?

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These are the Challenge words we have been learning this week. Can you sight read these words?

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This is the Challenge word we have been learning this week. Can you sight read this word?

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These are the sounds we have been learning this week. Can you say these sounds?

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This week we have been learning about the life cycle of a plant and loved planting our bulbs. We are going to water them and watch them grow into a flower.

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We had lots of fun learning all about King Charles III . We made crowns, union jack flags and collage pictures. We also made castles out of Lego and magnetic shapes. It was a great day!

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We had a wonderful time learning all about Diwali the festival of light. We loved our Diwali party where we tasted Indian food, danced to music and wore traditional clothing. We made a group Rangoli pattern and our own Diva lamps using a range of different media. Happy Diwali Reception.

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These are the Challenge words we have been learning this week. Can you sight read these words?

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These are the sounds we have been learning this week. Can you say these sounds?

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These are the sounds we have been learning this week. Can you say these sounds?

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We made poppies by printing apples and using cotton buds for the poppy seeds.

We also made poppies out of unifix cubes.

We enjoyed reading the words on the poppies and finding the right object.

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These are the Challenge words we have been learning this half term. Can you sight read these words?

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These are the sounds we have been learning this half term. Can you say these sounds?

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These are the sounds we have been learning this half term. Can you say these sounds?

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These are the sounds we have been learning this half term. Can you say these sounds?

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These are the sounds we have been learning this half term. Can you say these sounds?

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These are the sounds we have been learning this half term. Can you say these sounds?

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We had lots of fun celebrating our Cultural Day at school. The Country we learnt about today was Poland. We created a Poppy using a range of different colours, decorated the Polish flag and learnt some Polish words. Well done Reception.

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In Maths we have been learning all about repeating patterns. We made repeating patterns using coloured counters. Then we went outside and made repeating patterns using natural materials. It was lots of fun!

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We have loved exploring all the different activities in the Atrium, especially our new Garden Centre.

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We had lots of fun exploring our environment, spotting the signs of Autumn and going on a leaf hunt. We found lots of different coloured leaves and conkers which was very exciting.

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We had lots of fun in our last session at Forest School this week. We made lots of homes for the animals, mud pies and magic potions! We found lots of worms , wood lice and laydbirds which we looked at in our bug jars.  At the end we enjoyed a game of 1,2,3 where are you. 

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We have been practising writing our new letters this week - ck,e,u.r. We are remembering to use our froggy fingers and we are forming our letters beautifully. Well done Reception!

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We have been exploring cogs as we sang Hickory Dickory Dock. We loved printing using the cogs and sprinkling glitter to make them shiny.

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We have been learning all about the Colour Monster this week. We loved painting our own colour monsters and sharing our emotions and feelings. We also enjoyed creating a class Colour Monster using a range of different colours. Well done Reception.

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We had lots of fun in our forest area this week. We played in the mud kitchen making mud pies and magic potions! We searched for minibeasts and looked at them closely in our bug jars. We also made homes for the animals out of leaves, sticks and conkers.