This week in phonics we have covered the phonemes h, b, f and l. It was great to hear the fun things that had happened over the half-term holiday. The children have enjoyed ordering and weighing all of the pumpkins and vegetables that you kindly sent in, they liked looking at the difference in all of their sizes. Everyone enjoyed hammering golf tees into the pumpkins. 

This week in Reception we have been learning the phonemes g, o, c, and k. In class we have been talking about Mo Farah and Faith Ringgold. We have been making pieces of art showing the children flying over somewhere they would love to be using Faith Ringgold's tapestry and quilt work for inspiration. We have had a focus on number 2, finding out about all of the different ways it can be made. The children have also been continuing their repeated pattern work. 

We have had a brilliant week in Reception. The children have started to learn the first phonemes starting with s, a and t. They have enjoyed thinking of all the different things that begin with those sounds. In maths, we have been looking at shapes and patterns, we have all enjoyed making our own repeated patterns.  Although it may seem slightly early we have been making the Cauliflower groups Christmas picture cards and the children have been doing a great job with these. These will be coming home for you to look at next week. All of the children looked very smart for their first Sheen Mount School photograph.

The children have had a brilliant second week in Reception. We have continued with getting to know each other and they are doing a great job of learning each others' names. They have enjoyed the Rainbow Challenges this week and the children completed lots of them. We are looking forward to seeing all of the teddies and soft toys the children send in next week for the Teddy Bear's Picnic.

This week we have been looking at dinosaurs, the children have had a great time learning lots of facts about a range of dinosaurs. At the beginning of the week it was great to find out what they already knew about them. We then went on to look at the features of different carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. The children have enjoyed making different habitats for the dinosaurs to live in, making dinosaur parks and drawing pictures of them.

This week we have had a focus on spiders, the children have loved learning all of the different facts about them. They were fascinated when we found out that some spiders do not spin webs. We had great fun making spider catching games and the children made up new rules to make them more challenging and interesting. The pumpkins and sunflowers we planted have been growing well and are starting to take over the outside classroom.