Under the Sea continues...

Our free flow activities this week included writing our sight words in sand, ordering our numbers up to 20 and making some fantastic collage artwork of our favourite under the sea creatures.

Apps for iPads

During parent consultations it was brought to my attention than many children in Reception do have access to an iPad. I was asked about possible apps that could help children with their reading skills. Whilst I cannot find any free apps I would recommend either of these two apps from Starfall ($2.99 each).

Please remember however to limit the time your child used an iPad.

Starfall ABC app

Starfall learn to Read app

If you have a computer Starfall can also be accessed here :
Starfall

Best Regards,

Under the Sea

The children were very happy to see each other last Tuesday and also to welcome our new student in RM. Welcome to our class Grace!

Our theme for the next two weeks is Under the Sea. We read the story "The Rainbow fish' and discussed the importance of being nice to our friends and sharing. During literacy we talked about different sea animals. In maths we practiced our number order and counting on, making jellyfish with 10 legs and playing snakes and ladders.

In our joint activities with RS we made some sea creature crafts including a CD rainbow fish, a funky fish and a spotted seahorse. We experimented with water and paint to create some amazing sea like effects on paper towels, and designed some boats out of lots of different materials to see if they sank or if they floated. 

Welcome Grace!

Ailynn being teacher!

Bingo phonics

Water colour sea effects

Things beginning with 'f' to stick inside the fish.

Making CD rainbow fish

Boat making

Under the sea role play

Water effects

Will the boat float...?

Colourful fish

Girls club!

Boys play!

Welcome back to Term 3!

Hope you and your child have had a great Songkran holiday and your child is excited to be coming back to school tomorrow. This term we will be studying all types of living things starting off with sea creatures. If you have any old CDs or DVDs that no longer play, please could we have them for one of our sea crafts?

During the last week of term we did lots of activities centered around a favourite movie of many of the children, 'Frozen'. We made Elsa capes and crowns (and prince's capes and crowns for the boys!), and some children made an Olaf snowman. Later in the week we celebrated Easter by decorating our very own egg and finished the week with an interesting candy hunt in the Early years playground. 

Making Elsa capes

The boys making capes!

A finished cape!

Sparkly Elsa crowns

Olaf!

Hannah concentrating very hard to decorate her egg!

Decorated eggs

Thank you for your continued support. I look forward to an exciting Term 3!

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!!

This week in reception we have been reading the story Rapunzel. During our joint activities with RS some children made some fantastic towers out of junk whilst others role played the story with our dolls house and others tried to write key words from the story. 

In maths we revised our shapes trying to describe them in terms of number of sides, corners and whether the sides were straight or curvy. We then went onto 3D shapes deciding how they are different to 2D shapes.

Rapunzel tower

Junk modelling

Hannah's tower for Rapunzel.

Building with 3D shapes

Ailynn busy at work!

I can tell the difference between 2D and 3D shapes.

A cylinder

We finished off the week decorating leaves for our word beanstalk which has all our high frequency words that we are learning in reception.

Reception High frequency words.