As we reached the end of our Talk for Writing unit on Red Riding Hood it was so exciting to invite our story heroes in to hear our tiny story books! We took great care this morning adding lots of detail to our drawings and labelling the pages or writing bits of the story! We finished the day by reading an alternative version ‘Little Red’!
What a beautiful day for a walk to St John’s church! Unlike our trip to the library in the sleet it was a beautiful day for a stroll down the road. On our way we spotted different modes of transport in our local area; making a tally to record our findings. When we reached the church we went on a hunt to find specific items like the ‘altar’ and ‘organ’. Reverend Sharon played us the bells and spoke to us about her church and her job.
As we move into the second half of the school year we start to formalise some of our Maths recording; beginning to capture our ideas in digits and number sentences. We’ve been loving Mrs Connolly’s 5 Green Bottles area this week and many of us have been singing along independently. We’ve been working in our odds and evens and looking at pairs and friends within numbers to help us understand this concept.
As we look forward to Lunar New Year at the end of next week we were learning and acting out the story of the Great Race in RTH. We loved being the different animals of the Zodiac Calendar and making our own way across the river!
It has been an exciting week in Reception with some emergency visitors popping in to school. We knew the police were coming in as we had arranged them but this morning when a fire engine arrived on the playground we couldn’t believe our luck! Although the firefighters were here to talk to Year 5 when we popped out to say hello they kindly showed us some of their uniform and some bits of the engine – what an exciting day!
Our Friday afternoons are always given over to storytelling and last week was our first week with the story heroes. We loved telling our stories to our Year 6 buddies and some of them even read them out loud like a performance.
We finished our Autumn term with our beautiful Christingle service – we loved making our Christingle and learning all about the symbolism of each part. We sang our carols in the peaceful, candlelit hall with our friends.
Our Year 6 story heroes came down to Reception for the first time on Friday afternoon. We were very keen to share our best stories with them and we loved hearing other stories. Some of the buddies read our stories out loud so everyone could hear.
As with every year we finished for Christmas with the peaceful Christingle service. We enjoyed building our Christingle with Mrs Gomez – learning about the symbolism of each part. In the peace of the candlelight we shared our carols.
