Class 1

This week the Reception children have been busy getting ready for Friday's class assembly. Our theme is "Mother's Day" The children have painted pictures of their mums, made them a necklace, a flower, a poem and a song.

We hope everyone has a great Mother's Day.

Emily's entry for the Easter Egg Competition

It's been another busy week in Class 1 and "Spring is in the air"

It's been a very quiet week in class 1. Poor Mrs.Gabriele lost her voice. It was so funny. Everyone went round whispering to each other.

Ou Topic this half term is "People who help us"  To help us get into character the role play area is a Hair Dressing Salon. The children have had great fun styling, cutting (only pretending) colouring and perming each others hair.

We had another birthday this week. A big thank you to Emily's mum and dad for the lovely cake.

Emily made a rattle for India

In RE this week we have been looking at "MEALS". We have talked about our favourtie meal and when we have meals. This led us to talk about "The Eucharist" the most special meal we share toether as God's family.

In  Literacy/Art we have created a lovley display in the cloakroom,  about Snow White. We hope you can all admire it when you come to Parent's Evening after half term. 

Last week Mrs. Gabriele asked the Reception children "What would you like to have as our role play area next week"? The children came up with lots of really good ideas. We made a list and then we voted for our favourtie idea.  A DOCTOR'S SURGERY Little did we know that so many of the class would really need a doctor for real this week. The children have learnt to put on a bandage, take temperatures, give injections and write out perscriptions.

This week the children have been making their own models using different shapes and materials. Luke made a fantastic "laptop" and Emily made a "Bird Feeder"

In Numeracy this week we have used shapes, dice and dominoes to add together 2 groups of numbers.  

In Class 1 this week we are sorting and counting everyday objects that we can find in and around the classroom.

We are making wax rubbings of shapes that we find in and around school.

We are trying to "Guess the Present" by looking at its shape without unwrapping the paper.

In PE we are trying to imitate different shapes and putting those shapes to different pieces of music.

In the "Role Play Area" we are using our writing skills to wrtie out different menus for our Cafe and then using our number skills to work out how much different meals cost. We are also learning how to take turns and to share the equipment with each other.

In Personal and Social Development we are trying very hard to be "sensitive to the needs of others" This can be very hard sometimes when other children say or do somethin g that we do not like.

In Class 1 this week we have been working really hard at making Mrs. Gabriele so very proud of each and everyon of us. We have finally put all those sounds we have learnt since September into words and sentences and all of us have taken home our first reading book.

In Numeracy we have begun to learn how to write our numbers correctly. It's really hard for some of us but with practise we will get it right. 

Our role play this week is a "CAFE" and we have been serving up lots of "Espresso's", Cappuccino's and "Latte's"

It's been another busy week in Class 1 full of fun and lots of hard work.

In Literacy we have started our "Ditty Books" for the first time. We can now read our own book. It's great to finally be able to put all those sounds together and make words.

In Numeracy we have been describing the properties of 2 D and 3D shapes and then sorting the shapes into those that have points, curves, square faces and those that can roll.

In RE we have been talking about "Special People" and of course the most important people in our lives are our parents.

In Art we have been making models using household shapes. Johnny got very upset  when he chose a Toblerone tube for his model. He thought it had sweets inside but it was empty. He could not understand that Mrs. Hebron's husband had eaten the sweets and that she had just brought the empty tube in to make a model. So sorry Johnny.

Thank you for sending in differnet shapes and for helping the children with their homework.

Happy New Year everyone. What a beginning to 2010. SNOW, SNOW and more SNOW. It was lovely to see all the Reception children back ater the Christmas brake and we got straight down to work. We began our new Topic "People Who Help Us". The children found lots of dressing up clothes in the play area and the "Fire Fighter" uniform proved to be the most popular.

In Literacy we wrote "Thank you" letters to Father Christmas for all our lovely presents and we put the letters into an envelope and bought a stamp and gave it to Mrs. Adamson to post.

In Numeracy our topic is "Shapes". We learnt the names of many new 3D shapes and the children have been asked to look at home for different shapes and to bring them to school to add to our collection.

In Art with Mrs. Hebron the children painted " Shape Robot's" which we are going to display in our class room.

ADVENT  has arrived. Class 1 is getting ready for a very important GUEST. JESUS

We are making decorations for the Christmas tree and for the classroom.

Also this week we have a star at school who had her picture in the paper.

 The children have enjoyed dressing up and pretending to be Santa in our "Santa's Grotto"

what lovely crowns

A very BIG THANK YOU to James, Katie, Leah and luke who joined the school at St. Paulinus church on Saturday night for the Feast of Christ the King. They did a fantastic job carrying the bread and wine for the offertory, wearing the crowns they made.

Another busy week in class 1 but this week the weather and poorly tummies have hit hard in class 1 by Friday we only had 7 children left standing - a sturdy bunch.

In numeracy we have been playing number games. Everyone took turns and no one cheated.

We have been helping the rest of the school with props for the Christmas play.

 Can't wait for next week! what will the home area be on Monday - wait and see!

This week in literacy we have been learning the sounds:

e l h and sh.

In numeracy we have been looking at 2d and 3d shapes.

Our role play area is a "Post Office" and we have been having great fun writing and posting letters all over the world.

Christmas is approaching very quickly and we have started to make calenders to give as presents to our mum's and dad's.

On Wednesday morning we had a very special visit from Ben and Jet the police dogs. It was great to see them and they were very well behaved. Last week we had made Christmas cards with Ben and Jet on to enter the police Christmas card competition.

   In art this week we have been making fish.

  In science we have been finding out how things move.

This week we have been making Christmas cards to enter the Wear Valley Christmas Card Competiton.

We love writing our new sounds.

 This week class 1 have been working really hard learning lots of new sounds and learning to count with Moss the maths meercat.   

We have been making an octopus to go on the wall.

This week we hae been learning about the creatures that live under the sea.

This week we have been very busy finding numbers all around us. We have also been learning to count to 10 in French as well as English.

Katie was 5 on Wednesday and we celebrated with a cake with five candles on it.

This week Class 1 have been looking at Autumn leaves and then we made our own.

In maths we have been counting objects and sorting teddy bears.

In literacy we have been using language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences. We have been learning to negotiate and interact with other children and adults.

We have also been listening to stories, poems and rhymes and enjoying The Cat in the Hat as part of National Book Week.

In RE this week we began a new topic called FRIENDS.

To start off the topic the children were asked who were their friends at school.

Eric said Luke

Katie said Emily

Johnny said James

Emily said Katie

Luke said Cameron

James said Johnny

Camerson said James and Luke

Freja said Katie and Leah

Fallon said Anna

Anna said Fallon, Leah and Freja

Leah said EVERYONE.

The children then made Friendship Bracelets to give to their special friends.

    This week Class 1 have been looking at Autumn leaves and then we made our own.

In maths we have been counting objects and sorting teddy bears.

In literacy we have been using language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences. We have been learning to negotiate and interact with other children and adults.

We have also been listening to stories, poems and rhymes and enjoying The Cat in the Hat as part of National Book Week.

In Maths this week Class 1 have been making patterns.

This week we have been painting self portraits, birthday kites,  sorting by shape, colour and size and learning how to work together and sharing equipment.

It has been a very special week for 2 children in class1.

On Monday Emily was the star of the week and she got to sit on our brand new cushion which says "Star of the Week". She was so pleased and all the other children now want to be "Star of the Week" so that they can sit on the cushion.

On Wednesday it was Eric's 5th birthday. We celebrated by having a cake and Eric got to sit on the other new cushion which says "Happy Birthday"

In the Reception class this year we have 11children - 5 boys and 6 girls

Our Topic this half term is "MYSELF"

The children are learning all about themselves and how they have changed from the time when they were born.

The Reception children have settled really well into the routine of school life and it is a great pleasure to have them at St. Chad's school. Below are some pictures of their first week at school.