RCW: Blog items
Date: 20th Mar 2020 @ 12:19pm
In Reception we have made some rainbows to put on our windows at home. Hopefully when people walk past and look at the beautiful rainbows it will make them smile!!!!
We want everyone to smile whilst they are having some time at home!!!
Date: 15th Mar 2020 @ 12:28pm
On Friday 13th March, our classroom turned into a sea of red!! We came to school dressed in something red to raise money and join in a Dance-a-thon for Sport Relief.
In the class we took turns to be responsible for a buzzer. As soon as the buzzer was heard we stopped what we were doing and danced along to the Crazy Frog song. It was lots of fun!!!
We played mini football using our fingers, designed new kits and we did some sport colouring.
Date: 6th Mar 2020 @ 8:41am
We celebrated World Book Day in great style!!! In Reception we had a range of costumes including lots of Alice in Wonderland's, Little Red Riding Hood, Peter Rabbit and quite a few Spidermen to name a few...
We started the day with an assembly where we strutted down the catwalk and showed off our costumes. After the catwalk we sat with our Year 4 Reading Buddies and shared a story.
During the day we read lots of stories, made masks, decorated bookmarks and even helped to create some of the characters from the traditional tale 'Chicken Licken' for our display.
Date: 27th Feb 2020 @ 11:18am
We celebrated Pancake Day by tasting different toppings on Pancakes and creating a block graph to show our results. The toppings included chocolate, golden syrup, sugar with lemon and plain pancakes. In our class chocolate was the most popular topping choice closely followed by lemon and sugar.
During the week we have read the story 'The Runaway Pancake' and found out that it was very similar to the story 'The Gingerbread Man.' We have wrote some pancake recipes to help the woman in the story to make them for her children.
Date: 14th Feb 2020 @ 8:23pm
We had our first VIP Parent Session today. Parents and carers were invited to come and have a look at their child's observation journal online. They were able to look at the observations with their children and talk about the learning that has taken place so far this year. It was lovely to see the grown ups and their children talking and discussing whilst looking at the photos and videos online.
We will continue to have these sessions over the year so all parents and carers have the opportunity to look through their child's observation journal online.
Date: 14th Feb 2020 @ 7:33pm
We had an amazing morning with some of our parents and carers making a special Valentines Day Wreath.
Happy Valentines Day!!!
Date: 13th Feb 2020 @ 10:07am
This half term House Fire won the house treat! All children in house fire were invited to a Valentines Disco! .jpeg)
Date: 11th Feb 2020 @ 4:13pm
We met our Reading Buddies today!!!
Mrs Ratcliffe's Year 4 class are our reading buddy class this year. This afternoon we met our buddy and got to know them. After the half term we will regularly meet them and share some wonderful stories.
Date: 6th Feb 2020 @ 3:50pm
We celebrated Children's Mental Health Week by wearing our own clothes Inside Out!! We listened to the story 'The Lion Inside' and discussed the word 'Brave.' We talked about things that we have done that made us feel scared but after doing it made us feel brave.
Click the link below to watch the story 'The Lion Inside.'
Date: 6th Feb 2020 @ 2:48pm
On Wednesday 5th February we went to the Blue Planet Aquarium. We had a fantastic time looking at all the animals that live under the sea and learnt lots of new facts about some of the animals. Did you know that an octopus has 9 brains, one in each tentacle and 3 hearts that helps it to stay alive...!!! We watched some divers feeding the rays and swimming with the sharks. This was a little scary!! It was an amazing day!!
Thank you to the wonderful parents who came along and helped on the day.
Date: 31st Jan 2020 @ 7:27pm
On Monday we found 3 boxes in our classroom. We became 'Super Helper Detectives' and began to look for clues inside and under the boxes.
We found pictures of three boys, a book and a letter from someone called 'Birt.' After some detective work and completing some reading challenges we found out that the three boys were best friends who loved to play with boxes. However, one of the boys became unfriendly and we started to think about how to be a good friend in our circle time sessions.
Listen to the narrated version of the story using the link below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRmd2DWjiA
Parent Vocabulary Stay and Play
Date: 31st Jan 2020 @ 7:10pm
This morning Reception children invited Parents/Carers into our classroom to show how we learn new vocabulary linked to our topic or story of the week. It was great to see so many parents getting involved in the activities. We started by teaching parents our Word Rap and then had a range of activities that supported children in learning vocabulary with some links to our phonics teaching.
Why don't you do the word rap at home using the link below...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=428l9PIED_I
The words we have learnt so far are...
flickering, belonged, rescued, dwellers, pirate, dragon slayer, astronaunt, dragged, crunched, cracked and pirate.
Looking forward to our next Stay and Play next half term!!
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 12:23pm
This week in Reception, children have loved learning about Chinese New Year! We turned our home corner into our very own Chinese resteraunt, where some of us dressed up in Chinese clothes and practiced using chop sticks! Throughout the week, we have danced like dragons, created Chinese laterns, wrote our names in Mandarin and even learnt some new words! We practised counting from 1-10 and sang Happy New Year songs in Chinese!
Here are links to the songs we have been learning!
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Date: 23rd Jan 2020 @ 2:39pm
We have started to learn new words during our English lessons each week. We are using 'Word Rap' to help us learn new words and then putting the word on our brand new Word Wall. Each week we are learning new words that we may hear in our focus story or during our language sessions in the afternoons. The children are determined to put over 100 words on our word wall by the end of the year...! Can we do it...? Yes, we will try...!!!
On Friday 31st January come along to our stay and play sessions. We will be doing a session in the morning at 9.00am until 10.00am and repeat it again in the afternoon at 2.15pm until 3.00pm. The session will be based around how we learn new words. We will start the session with our word rap and then split into our groups to complete some word/phonic based activities. At the end of the session you will be given a parent leaflet with some ideas that you can try at home.
Date: 16th Jan 2020 @ 2:38pm
Our new story this half term is called 'The Storm Whale in Winter.' In this story a boy called Noi lives with his dad on an island and makes friends with a whale. One wintery day Noi's dad goes out fishing and doesn't return. Noi is brave and goes searching for his dad and his friend the whale comes back to help him.
Please visit the website below to watch a video of the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPtet0D2zHc
We got a message in a bottle from Noi who left the story and his whale friend for us to look after. We have read the story and made models of the Storm Whale, we wrote some sentences about what Noi imagined would be under the sea and wrote some messages from dad or Noi.
Date: 16th Jan 2020 @ 2:26pm
Happy New Year!!
Welcome back into 2020!!! The children have come back to school with an enthusiastic attitide towards their learning, and they have grown a little taller aswell!!!
We have started the new half term with an amazing new story called 'The Storm Whale in Winter.' This story will lead the way into answering our question 'How do we get by with a little help from my friends?' In this theme we will be learning about friendship through our stories and we will also learn about animals that live under the sea.
We will also talk about friends that help us around school with a visit from a lunchtime supervisor, caretaker and first aider in school.
Our experience this half term will be a visit to the Blue Planet Aquarium in February, and we will also be celebrating Chinese New Year and Valentines Day. Watch out for more blogs on our class page for these events and experiences.
Date: 19th Dec 2019 @ 8:12am
We are having our Christmas Lunch!!! It was delicious!!
Date: 17th Dec 2019 @ 8:52pm
We had a fantastic time today at our Christmas Party. We played pass the parcel, musical statues, musical bumps, corners and we even had a go at following some dance moves online! Who knew in reception we had a group of children with great dance moves that included the floss and hype!!
We ended the afternoon tucking into some party food. Yum, Yum!!!
Date: 17th Dec 2019 @ 8:48pm
In our classroom we discovered a 'crime scene.' In this crime scene we saw some objects that helped us to find out what our next story was going to be about. We saw some recipe books, apron, chef's hat and flour. Our next story was all called 'The Gingerbread Man.'
Date: 17th Nov 2019 @ 2:28pm
In RAI we raised money for Children in Need and took part in lots of fun activities. We started the day by joining Joe Wicks in the live workout called 'Big Morning Move.' We ran around our brand new 'Daily Mile' track in the playground. In class we did lots of Pudsey activities which included Pudsey bear finger painting, drawing Pudsey Bear and using split pins to make a Pudsey Bear puppet. What a Fun Day!!!
Thank you so much for your contributions to this worthy charity.
Date: 12th Nov 2019 @ 8:50pm
For the last two weeks we have started to think about light and dark through the story 'The Foggy Foggy Forest' by Nick Sharratt. In this story we meet lots of well-known characters in a dark and foggy forest. We have used the story to recognise rhyming words and describe our favourite characters.
Why not visit the website below to listen to the story online...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yu2WiqogW4
Date: 12th Nov 2019 @ 8:37pm
In Reception we have begun Phase 2 of the Letters and Sounds Phonics programme. In this phase we are learning how to correctly pronounce and write the following sounds:
- Set 1: s, a, t, p.
- Set 2: i, n, m, d.
- Set 3: g, o, c, k.
- Set 4: ck, e, u, r.
- Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss.
Alongside teaching the above sounds we have started to teach children the skills of segmenting and blending. Segmenting is when children are able to identify each sound in the word, they then blend the sounds together to read the word.
For example, s/a/t as children say the sounds faster they should hear that the word says 'sat.' For further information take a look at the following website which has further information, resources and games that you can use at home.
Date: 12th Nov 2019 @ 8:27pm
Reading is an important partnership between home and school and one that we value at Ravensbury Primary. Please can you make sure that you spend at least 10 minutes each night with your child sharing their reading book. As the children are becoming more confident in their Phonics and learning the sounds they will soon begin to use the skills of segmenting and blending to support reading words.
At this early stage talking about the pictures and asking questions linked to the characters, places and experiences in the book is all vital skills in supporting children with their early reading skills.
When you share the reading book at home please comment or tick that it has been shared in the reading record, and make sure it is in school every day. Reading books will be changed every Friday.
Date: 8th May 2019 @ 10:15am
We watched a video about minibeasts and we sang about the minibeasts. We learned about minibeasts by listening to the words.click here to listen to the song
Date: 2nd May 2019 @ 5:03pm
We would just like to say a huge big thank you to all the parents that came in to school this morning to help us create a minibeast. We understand that it's not always possible for you to come if you have to go to work or you have an appointment, but we love it when you can share in our learning.
Here are lots and lots of photos so you can look at and enjoy the experience we had...
