St Bernadette Reception
Welcome to the Reception Class page. My name is Miss Obilaso and working alongside me this year are Mrs Manesh and Mrs Monica. We look forward to working with your children and watching them grow in confidence.
Have a lovely summer holidays Reception. We will all miss you ❤️
Day 4 Activities (16th July)
Day 3 Activities (15th July)
Day 2 Activities (14th July)
What can you see in the picture? Write a sentence about what you can see! Include your capital letter, finger spaces and full stop.
Day 1 Activities (13th July)
Day 5 Activities (10th July)
Day 4 Activities (9th July)
Can you write a sentence about a character in the picture? Remember to use your capital letters, full stop and finger space!
Day 3 Activities (8th July)
Day 2 Activities (7th July)
Have a go at using your hand print to count in 5s, either using paint or drawing around your hand! What number can you go up to?
Day 1 Activities (6th July)
Oh no! There has been a space crash... what happened? What can you see? Write a sentence or words about what you can see e.g. 'I can see a rocket.'
Can you find socks or shoes in your house and count in 2s up to 20? If you want a challenge try going to 30!
Day 5 Activities (2nd July)
Day 4 Activities (July 1st)
Day 3 Activities (30th June 2020)
Day 2 Activities (30th June 2020)
What can you see? Write a sentence about what you can see in the picture. 'I can see the big yellow sun'. Don't forget your finger spaces, capital letters and full stops!
Day 1 Activities (Monday 29th June)
Challenge - Plan a tea party on the moon for the aliens.You could draw/write foods that you would want at the party.
think of foods that an alien might like, such as star biscuits, rockets, jelly or moon cheese!
Day 5 Activities (Friday 26th June)
Can you find the missing number? All answers equal 10!
Day 4 Activities
Treasure hunt - Parents you will need to hide the cut out cards around the house or garden and give your child the sheet of paper to count the number of space objects and write them down, on the other sheet
Number Bonds to Ten Activity (find the missing number)
Activity with the 'Cr' sound
Day 3 Activities
Number Bonds to Ten Activity
Words with the 'Gr' sound in them
Day 2 Activities
Alien Writing Activity
Number bond activity
Planet colouring activity
Tr and Dr words
Day 1 Activities
Day 5 Activities
Which animal is heavier?
Day 4 Activities
Day 3 Activities
Write a few words or a sentence using your phonics. What makes a good friend?
Today we are looking at the length of objects. Look around your house and find some objects that are short and some that are long. Next have a go at measuring them using (non standard unit of measurement) cubes, hands, paperclips or lollipop sticks.
Reading Sentences
Look around your house and find some heavy and light objects. Pick two objects at a time, can you compare them, which one is heavy and which ones is light.
Day 1 Activities
Rainbow Colouring Activity
This week we are looking at measuring, have a go at the cup activity - You need 6 cups, can you fill them up matching the picture below? Match the words half full, empty, full, nearly full, nearly empty
Day 5 Activities
Maths activity (use your fingers, objects or a number line to help you) In a nutshell – It’s a great, interactive activity for introducing simple equations. You just need to take a sharpie, write some numbers and mathematical symbols on the edges of styrofoam cups or plastic , and then stack them on each other in a logical order (e.g. 1 + 3 = 4). What you need – Styrofoam Cups with Lips Sharpie Markers
Day 4 Activities
Day 3 Activities
Day 2 Activities
Day 1 Activities
Counting to 100
Can you play the game and read the words out?
Day 5 Activities
Phase 4 sound st
Day 4 Activities
Day 3 Activities
Day 2 Activities
Day 1 Activities
Have a go at making your own clock
Have a lovely half-term!
Day 5 Activities
Hungry Caterpillar Cutting Activity
Day 4 Activities
Day 3 Activities
Have a go at making an octopus painting! You will need the following: paint, googly eyes, paper/card, glue and tissue paper. Trace your hand onto card and cut round, to create the octopus. Then you can stick on the cheerios onto the bottom of the cut out card (optional). Next paint the octopus any colour of your choice. Once painted, grab your A4 paper and paint blue, for the ocean. When your octopus has dried you can add the googly eyes, using glue. With the tissue paper tear it into short strips to make the coral and stick onto the A4 paper/ card.
Positional language activity
Day 2 Activities
Today you are going to create a story map, based on your favourite book! Below is a story map for the story, 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. A story Map takes the key events within a story and draws a picture for each one. The aim is your child can use the story map to tell the story from start to finish, using the pictures as reminders.
Day 1 Activities
Have a read of your favourite book and draw your favourite character. Can you describe what your character looks like? Write words to describe your character or a sentence to describe it.
Positional language activity
Day 5 Activities
Communication and Language activity - Place a sticky note on your forehead, writing a children's character or something within the room on the note. The children will need to ask questions to do with the character or object to find out what it is.
Day 4 Activities
What can you find outside or inside that match the colours in the rainbow? When you find something take a picture!
Day 3 Activities
Make 2 circles on the floor or draw 2 circles on a sheet of paper. Using any objects around the house can you half different quantities? e.g. Half of 6 packets of crisps, apples etc
Day 2 Activities
Have a go at making your own firework paintings, using either tissue roll tubes or cardboard.
Communication and Language - Discuss what you can see in the picture? What would you like to play with? What was it like when you went to the beach? What was your favourite part about going to the beach? Would you like to go again and what would you take? Write a sentence about what you can see or write down things that you can see e.g. sun.
Doubling activity - This activity involves using a mirror to find double of the number of objects. Have a go at finding doubles of numbers up to 5, writing the number sentences down.
Day 1 Activities
Day 5 Activities
Pairs game - Cut out the picture and the words, muddle them up and see if you can sound out the words and match them together.
Dot to Dot
Day 4 Activities
DIY Telephone The activity – Communication and language area. This simple, crafty telephone will engage kids for hours. All they need to do is paint some plastic cups, poke a hole in each of them, and thread string through the bottom. You can experiment with various speaking activities but we recommend the old school game of telephone where kids whisper to each other and pass the message around. What you need – Plastic Cups String or Rope Paint for Decoration.
Day 3 Activities
Memory Game activity – Communication and language development. Take several paper plates and markers and write some letters if you want to practice literacy or draw shapes, animals and other items if it’s time to build their vocabulary. See if you can remember where they are, after they have been turned over.
Day 2 Activities
Cut out the words and make a sentence.
Making a rainbow using salt dough!
Day 1 activities
Have a go at finding one more and one less
Day 5 activities
Day 4 activities
Can you make different colours by mixing the prime colours?
Day 3 activities
Day 2 activities
Have a go at following the lines, to build up your fine motor skills!
Can you create number sentences from the stories?
Day 1 activities
Have a go at making a butterfly using different paper! You can use scissors or just tear the paper to create your butterfly :)
Draw the dots on the ladybird and write the number bonds to 10 you can use objects or a number line (ruler) to help!
Day 4 activities
Fine motor skills activities - Tracing and Colouring
Day 3 activities
Can you find any of the bugs in your garden or on a walk?
Day 2 activities!
Maths Challenge! Can you find 4 different sized shoes in your house and put them in order, longest shoe to the shortest shoe? Extra challenge - Can you measure them using objects such as cars, cubes, lego etc?
Can you cut out the coin and match it to the correct amount?
Day 1 activities
Challenge of the day! Can you find 10 small objects in your house? Extra challenge: Can you find 20 small objects or even 30?
Have a go at writing your name, using different coloured pens, paints or materials!
Welcome back Reception :)
Wishing Reception class a very Happy Easter! Make sure you enjoy this half term break, with your families and have lots of fun playing your favourite games and activities. We all miss you and look forward to seeing you soon, make sure you are listening to Mummies and Daddies! :)
Extra Printable resources for Reception class.
RECEPTION CLASS SPRING TIMETABLE & CURRICULUM
Science week - Reception took part in a scientific workshop, working out who took the money by searching for clues and eliminating the suspects. In the end they worked out it was suspect Candy!
Our book focus this week has been Jack and the Beanstalk, so we are growing our own plants in reception. Fingers crossed we will see some shoots soon!
World book day costumes, you all look fantastic!
As part of our topic 'Let's Pretend', reception watched a puppet show and then made their own show using the puppets they made last week.
Wow! Your masks are amazing Reception Class.We are very impressed with the standard of half term homework and these are not even all of them!
Reception have made their own sock puppets and they look fantastic!
This week we have been looking at dinosaurs. Reception were shocked to find a mysterious object in our playground! We also enjoyed making fossils.
Reception are looking at the story Handas Surprise. We had visitors from the story come into our classroom. The children also looked at where the fruit in the story came from and tried some new fruits.
Reception and nursery trip to the farm!
First aid in reception!
This week we are looking at positional language and using the beebots to move around the maps.
Reception are looking at ways of keeping healthy, we tried a range of fruits and vegetables.
Reception are looking at changing different foods, we froze ice, toasted bread and mixed food colouring.
The children were so excited to move into their new classroom. They've settled in really well and are enjoying their new room!
Reception went to Tesco to buy ingredients to make jam sandwiches. We were hoping that the tiger might pop along from the book 'The tiger who came to tea'. What a pleasant surprise, he must have smelt the jam sandwiches!
Wow Reception, your plates are fantastic! Great start to our topic 'Food'!
Merry Christmas from Reception!
Reception enjoyed creating Christmas crafts with their parents today. Thank you for coming into Reception Class!
Reception Class Timetable
We made christmas decorations for our trees.
Well done Reception children for your fantastic Nativity performance! You all did such a wonderful job!
December has arrived! The children are enjoying all the Christmas activities, leading up to the 25th!
Reception created the Gruffalo using their hand print and went on a walk in the Gruffalo's forest and met all the different creatures!
Reception have taken selfies and created Gruffalo characters using markup. Can you guess the characters that the children have created?
Reception are looking at which animals from the Gruffalo story are Shorter and Longer, we then used cubes to compare them.
Reception this week are sequencing the story 'The Gruffalo' and retelling it. The children are writing words and sentences to retell the story, fantastic job reception!
This week we are reading the story 'The Gruffalo', the children had a fantastic workshop where they met the GRUFFALO! Reception thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn't stop laughing.
Reception have been enjoying their new costumes! Big thank you to Luay's Mummy!
This week Reception have been looking at adding one more to a number. We have been using our bears to count on one more.
'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' - This week in IPC we have been looking at the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. The children have been role playing the story with their friends!
Judaism Week - This week we have been looking at the life of a Jewish child and what their day to day life is like. We tried on Jewish traditional clothing and made stars to show the Jewish symbol.
This week we prepared for our tea party by making patterned cookies, Jelly and popcorn. Reception enjoyed setting up the classroom and showing their families and friends around!
Reception had a visit from Brother David this week, he talked to the children about the month of Mary and prayed with them. Brother David also taught the children a song with his keyboard!
The children have been curious as to what is happening next to our classroom. Reception have been on our own construction site, building and fixing.
As part of 'Black History Month' our reading focus has been the story 'Jamelas Dress'. The children have been recreating African patterns using paint and printing different shapes on to them.
In RE we are thinking about 'Beginnings', in particular the beginnings of our families. We looked at where we are from and the different customs practiced within a country, reception really enjoyed taking part in the Indian dancing.
Reception this week have been looking and learning about worms, we found lots of different sized worms in our playground.
As part of our IPC topic 'Family and Friends' the children brought in photos of their families and discussed them with the rest of their peers.
