Blog by Tag: Communication and Language

This week we have learnt the rhyme '5 Little Ducks' as we are learning all about our class.

. The children have loved learning the rhyme and actions, and are able to apply this in their independent learning. They have used the props on the maths table to sing with friends, count the ducks and…

This week, Reception had their first PE lesson. We focused on developing our listening skills and practised following instructions. We warmed up our bodies and then played the 'Traffic Light Game'. We had to listen out carefully to find out whether the traffic light was red, amber or green. If the…

Today we showed Miss Mayer how we hold our pencils and how many of the pre-writing shapes we can complete. This is something we will be working on over the year as it will help us in so many ways. When colouring we will learn new types of lines to represent objects. people and animals and it will…

In our Daily Maths sessions this week, we have been learning number rhymes. We practised singing 'Five Little Speckled Frogs', 'Five Little Ducks' and 'Five Little Monkeys'. We used our fingers to represent numbers within five as we sang along to each song. We are becoming more confident when…

We loved free colouring today! We could choose to draw anything we wanted. Miss Mayer was super impressed with how many colours we knew and how we could communicate our interests. We looked at what hand the crayons felt comfortable in and how we correctly hold a pencil/crayon.

Well done…

We had a wonderful first week in Reception! We enjoyed exploring our new environment, and had lots of fun both indoors and outdoors. We have also spent time getting to know each other, creating new friendships!

Today we had lots of fun role playing and freeze framing our new story of Little Red Riding Hood. The children all got into role and thought about the actions and behaviours of each of they characters. 

Our first 3 days in Nursery were so fun! We met our new teachers, made new friends and explored all of the different areas in our classroom and outside!

I hope you all had as much fun as I did and I can't wait to see you for our first full week on Monday. 

This morning we have created our own amazing observational drawings of fruit in Ducks and Swan class. The children looked at real life and images of fruit to create dimension within their painting. We talked about the countries fruit is grown, what the fruit tasted like, and what fruit is our…

We have loved learning about different foods this week and we have been focusing on the fruits in Handa’s Surprise. The children enjoyed using their senses to explore the fruit and discussing then as a class. 
 

We have then chose our favourite fruit and wrote about it in our books. 
 

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This week, Nursery have been talking about how to keep safe on holiday. We looked at this picture and spotted all of the dangers that we could see. We used full sentences to discuss why certain people were not safe and what they should be doing. We practiced our speaking and listening skills,…

We looked at images of different traditions/ways of life in both Africa and the UK. This included types of traditional clothing, transport and homes. We discussed the images in small groups, making comparisons between the two locations. We then sorted images into groups whilst having some great…