Week Beginning 24th September 2018

A new week has unfolded and a new series of experiences have happened in Class one.
First of all we would like to announce that we have officially started meditation in class one. At a time when mindfulness and meditation are increasingly recognised for their health benefits, it makes sense to teach children simple breathing exercises and fun yoga poses from an early age.

Held on Monday, Meditation and Yoga lessons finish the day in a peaceful and calming environment. We were rather impressed with how the children took part in this today and how most of them managed to relax and follow instructions.
During the session children were brought back to their centre; time for exploring their inner world and finding that inner calm again. Children were encouraged to bring awareness to each part of their body and let it go/relax and also to be aware of their breath. Great work Class one!

 

 

In maths we have been working on numbers and shapes. Children had to go on a shape hunt and find diamond shapes in our classroom.

 

We are beginning to see real cohesion within the class now as the children are more aware of each others characters and preferences.  There have been many times this week where the whole class has been drawn to one activity, lending itself to real valuable communication time.

Transforming the crates into boats so that we could go off on holiday together, not forgetting to stop and fish along the way, so that nobody was hungry.

 

 

 Sharing our Acorn to Oak books, talking about our family pictures at the front and what we been doing in Class 1 so far.

 

We have also introduced the idea of having independent tasks and challenges which we encourage the children to visit.

By Friday there was definitely an underlying theme amongst the children... tiredness!

We made bread crate bed outside...

 

...and cushion beds inside.

 

 

Thank you if you donated produce for the Harvest celebrations or managed to come in and watch our short performance this morning.

Its always very over whelming for the children the first time that they have to perform in front of a large audience and we think that they did a fantastic job, well done everyone!

 

Have a lovely weekend.

 

Week Beginning 17th September 2018

Welcome back to week two in Reception. It has been a long week but all the children have had a wonderful start to their school journey at Wenhaston and we have been amazed as to what a confident and happy group they have been, greeting us in the mornings with smiles and “Good Morning’s!”. We have loved getting to know the class more and more each day and already observing their characters and personalities emerge as they have played together. Children are getting to know the various areas around the classroom and school, engaging in activities inside as well as out. We are still working on tidying up and sometimes lining up too but we are pretty confident that will happen.
Have a look at our busy bees...

'I did it! I can balance the shapes on the moon!'

'Look at my tower it's so tall'

'I made a super high magic wand'.

 

                                                 'Let's measure you, wow you are that tall!'

Some of us have started to bring in our own ideas from home.  Freya found a lovely feather on her walk to school on Wednesday morning and used it to make this lovely picture to take home for her family.

 

We have been enjoying a selection of different puzzles, working both independently and with friends to wok out how to assemble them all.

Builders have also been busy in the construction area, team work allowed this HUGE tower to be assembled which we counted was 20 bricks high.

We have also been rather interested in robots, some of us managed to construct this rather fantastic creation known as...Bob-a-dee!

 

 Bob-a-dee spent two days in our class as a guest and even had his own chair at the milk table on Friday.

 

Others just thought it would be better to actually be a robot.

 

In the dinner hall the children are still getting used to collecting their food and getting it to the table, we are also trying hard to remember to sit at the table and use our knives and forks independently, saving our spoons for pudding.  Please help us by trying to reinforce these skills at home-many thanks.

 

You will find the next set of sounds in the children's diaries today for you to look at over the weekend, just a few minutes each day talking about the sounds or looking through the reading books really helps the children on their journey to becoming a reader.  Please feel free to write a comment in their diary too.  if there is anything else you need  to pass on you can also put this in the diary or catch one of us in the playground in the mornings.

 

Have a super weekend everyone.

Our first week!

Wow what a busy one it has been too.  We have well and truly been exploring our new environment both inside and out.

We welcome all our new families and hope that you and your children have enjoyed the first week.  Our Blog is updated at the end of every week so that you can see what the children have been learning in class.  You can always post a comment too if you want to be involved.

Take a look and see what we have been up to so far...

 Digging for treasure and bugs in the digging area.

 

Cooking in the mud kitchen.

 

Writing.

 

Learning how to use the computer.

 

And lots  of playing, interacting and getting to know our new friends.

 

We were even lucky enough to have a visit from lots of family members on Wednesday morning for our first Share, thank you to everyone who joined us.

 

 

Following this we have already had one parental observation from home returned to school.  Please feel free to send these as often as you like, we love to know what the children are up to at home as well.

 

The children have bought home their reading bags tonight with their first set of sounds and journals.  Information about hearing your child read can be found in the front of the book.  If you have any queries please come and ask us.

 

So a little glimpse into how busy we have all been at school and just why the children are so exhausted at the end of their first full week.

Have a good rest this weekend and we will see you all on Monday.

 

Class 1 Staff.