Reception Class 2023 - 2024
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Class R!
We wanted to send you a personal welcome to our Shakespeare family from the EYFS staff and children in Classes RH and RT.
We have received our cohort list and we are really looking forward to meeting, and getting to know our new little lovelies and their wonderful families. Our current Reception class children are also so excited to meet the new boys and girls and help them to settle in when they get here.
Lots of love,
The Class R Team and children x x x
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
GRANDPARENTS AFTERNOON TEA- 8TH FEBRUARY- information to follow
FUN WITH PHONICS- 28.2.24 AT 2.15PM
COME READ WITH ME- coming soon
SHAKEY HEROES- coming soon
💚💛 EYFS at Shakespeare 💛💚
📖📚✏ Literacy ✏📚📖
Meet our Reading Dogs.... Vocabulary Victor, Inference Iggy, Sequencing Suki, Rex the Retriever and Predicting Pip.
In Class R we are super little learners... We try very hard to be like the characters in our 'Characteristics of Effective Learning' books.
We are full of the joys of Spring and Easter excitement!! 🪷💐🐑🐣🐰We have been inspired by the new season, creating some more masterpieces! We loved our Easter Hunt (with a little treat at the end) after performing in the Easter sing-a-long! Our teachers were so proud of us an how we learned the words and actions to our songs!
💐🪷🌷🪻 Spring has sprung! 🌷🪻💐🥀🪷 We enjoyed our walk to the park looking for signs of Spring and we weren't disappointed! We saw buds on plants, blossom on the trees, daffodils and the sun came out for us too! We went to the cenotaph and talked about why it was important and we remembered making poppies earlier in the year. Our walk inspired us to create some .beautiful art work using different tools and techniques.
🐖🐖🐖🐺 I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down! Oh no you won't!! Class R are master builders now!! 🐖🐖🐖🐺 We have built houses with a variety of construction toys and loose parts to see which will make the sturdiest house for a pig. We learned how to lay bricks like a professional bricklayer. Like Sadie spider, we did not give up. Like Bobby Bee, we believed we could do it. Like Tommy turtle, we had a go and did not worry about making mistakes.
More learning fun!!
A week of Science and all things Space!! ✨🧪🔭🚀🛰️🌛🌠☄️ We have learned so many things about the solar system and enjoyed a science day experiment with an apple. We have created some wonderful art work inspired by planets in the solar system and learned new songs. We have learned lots of new words such as density, molecule, nebula and many more. We have explored Fleetwood and further afield using ''Google Earth'. We found football stadiums, Disneyland some of our houses. We made sure that we understand that we must NEVER tell a stranger where we live and we must ask our family if we can give our address to someone. We also talked about NEVER giving our address to someone online or talking through a headset.
🐻🌙 Baby Bear flies to the moon in a cardboard box rocket! It's all in his imagination... Or is it? 'Whatever Next' inspired us to have our own little picnic (unfortunately not in the moon!). We made sandwiches, but not before we wrote a shopping list and went to Aldi to buy all the things we needed! What a busy week!
💛💚We love books!! World Book Day was the best day! We shared stories, made recommendations to our friends, dressed up and made lots of lovely things to celebrate some of our favourite books!💛💚 Thank you to our wonderful families for the costumes!❤️
A huge THANK YOU to all of our wonderful families who came to have lots of 'Fun with Phonics' with us!
Thank you for your lovely comments about our Fun with Phonics session....
"I'm very happy with R's progress so far."
"A wonderful session giving plenty of ideas to help support H at home."
"You are doing an amazing job. Can't ask for any more."
"Keep doing what you're doing, you're amazing."
"Very enjoyable session for myself and M."
"The session was fabulous!"
Another busy week in EYFS! This week we had pancake fun with Mr Wolf, helped Wiffy Wilson the wolf stay clean and healthy, learned about pairs and counting in 2s with Simon sock and learned celebrated Baba Mata by making bracelets!!
Meet Cooper, our furry wellbeing friend!🐶🦴💛 Mrs Mitchell brought Copper to visit us and we loved him so much. He made us laugh and smile so he definitely did his job! We can't wait for him to visit again soon!
🐲🐉 Chinese New Year 🐉🐲 We learned so much about how Chinese New Year is celebrated and had lots of fun too!
Number fun with 'Silly Sidney who only eats six' and exploring capacity with a mouse called Albert!
❤🐻❤🐻❤ GRANDPARENTS AFTERNOON TEA 2024 ❤🐻❤🐻❤ We had THE best afternoon with our families, celebrating people who we love 'beary beary' much! We wrote invitations to invite our grandparents into school to make some special memories with us. We made a banner, bear bunting and some lovely beary art! The choir came to sing for us and their Take That medley was incredible. We aspire to be just like the boys and girls in the choir when we get older. A wonderful afternoon of love and laughter was had by all! Thank you so much for the lovely comments we received from our guests!
We are reaching for the stars in Class R every day, but today on Aspirations Day, we thought about what job we would like to do when we are older!⭐🌟
We rose to the STEM challenges this week using our clever brains for problem solving!
We have been very dramatic and talkative with Goldilocks and the Three Bears as inspiration for our writing 🐻🐻🐻👱♀️
Pinchy fingers practise to build our muscles for writing!✏💪
Balancing and measuring in maths!
👱♀️🐻🐻🐻 Goldilocks and the Three Bears 🐻🐻🐻👱♀️ We love this story!
In Maths we have been thinking about time, our day and night and day. We have learned some new words too. We know what nocturnal and diurnal animals are!🦡🐖🦔 We have been busy practising our drawing, writing and word building too!🐔
What another busy week! From Saving animals from icebergs, to exploring how wonderful it is that we are all different with 'Odd Dog', to practising our number skills!
We loved reading 'The Big Red Bath' with our reading dogs. They help us to talk about and understand stories! 🐶
Oooooo it's very chilly outside! We have been celebrating Winter through our topic work and stories 🥶❄☃ We have also been investigating shapes with 'The Bear in the Square🐻.
'Here Comes Jack Frost! 🥶❄
We are so proud of our little performers!
Look at all our hard work that we have created. We have our very own Winter Wonderland corridor. Thank you to all our parents for helping with our Christmas decorations.
We have enjoyed reading Henry's Holiday. We have worked hard in all areas of learning linked to our story
We supported Children In Need and donated a £1 to wear Pudsey clothes. We loved all the Pudsey activities that we explored in our environment!
We celebrated the Festival of Light with some lovely creative activities.
We loved reading Room on a Broom and we had so much fun doing all of the spooky activities!
Look at all our lovely Autumn activities!
We have been learning lots of new sounds during our Phonic lessons. We have matched pictures to sounds, practised formation and started to blend words.
We have been reading The Enormous Turnip. We enjoyed acting out the story.
Look at all the wonderful Maths activities we have been doing! We have been counting, recognising numbers, ordering numbers and using a five frame.
We have been learning about Harvest during our Autumn topic. Farmer Ted visited our classroom because he had lost his wagon with his Harvest vegetables. Once we had found them, we had an idea to make some soup. We cut up the vegetables, made the soup and then tried it!
We are making a fabulous start to our Shakespeare journey! 💚💛
