Caterpillar Class Road Safety Week

"On The Way Home" by Jill Murphy

We began the week by listening to the story, "On The Way Home" by Jill Murphy. In the story the main character Claire hurts her knee. On her way home she imaginatively tells her friends lots of different ways that she hurt it. For our writing activities this week we used our imagination to think of a character that we saw on our way home and how we hurt our knee. Here are some of our fantastic ideas: -

 

 

At the Writing Area table we all  also wrote a "Get Well" card for Claire. 

 

Road Safety

During Road Safety Week our learning activities were also based on the theme, "What's On The Road" and the aims were -

• For children to know what a road is, what traffic is and that traffic exists in many forms.
•       For children to understand that traffic can be dangerous.
•       For children to know the rules for keeping safe near traffic.

On Friday we put all our Road Safety skills into action by going on a local walk to the Post Box to post our get well cards for Claire.

 

We were all given a Road Safety Award for crossing the road safely - well done everybody!

 

Information for parents about how to help keep children safe on the road can be found on the Think! Education website http://think.direct.gov.uk/education/early-years-and-primary/parents/3-to-5s/



 



 

Bumble Bee Class week beginning 28.11.16

This week the children will learn, "The Nativity" story and we will begin our preparations for Christmas!

We will begin the week by reading, "The Nativity" story to the children. We will provide opportunities for the children to retell the story through small world play activities and will encourage them to describe settings, characters and events from the story. 

We shared the story 'Little Owl and the Star' by Mary Murphy.

The owl follows the star to Bethlehem to see the baby Jesus, meeting shepherds, angels and wise men on the way.

The children painted pictures of the people and animals in the Nstivity, and created a beautiful classroom display. 

The children have been busy practicing the songs for our Nativity play, 'The Inn Keepers Breakfast'.

Our maths focus this week: - 

This week our number focus will be the number 7.

This week the children will also be learning about 2d shape. We will encourage the children to talk about and identify shapes in our environment and use mathematical terms to describe them, for example, the number of sides and corners each shape has.

The children have been busy finding and describing the shapes in nursery.

Ladybird's successful walk to the post office

Today we took a walk with the whole class to the sorting post office.  As part of our Literacy work this week we have written a get well soon card to Claire – the character in our book – as she has a bad knee. 

We used out Road Safety rules: STOP – LOOK – LISTEN

when we crossed the roads. 

Jacqui said we did a brilliant job and is proud of us J  

Reception WB: 21.11.2016

This week in Reception we are looking at the book ‘On the Way Home’ by Jill Murphy. 

We have identified some of the characters that the little girl Claire, comes across in her elaborate story telling of how she hurt her knee. 

"Well," said Calire, "there was this big, bad wolf, and it came sneaking up behind me as I passed by, and it tried to take me home for its tea! But I screamed for help and a woodcutter came and chased the wold away, and the wold dropped me, and that's how I got my bad knee."  

In our writing area our independent task is to write a card to Claire to get well soon. 

As part of ‘Road Safety’ week we will be going on a short walk to the post office to post our cards to Claire, as we carefully cross the road.  In class we have been discussed the  – STOP, LOOK, LISTEN rules for crossing the road. 

WB:14.11.2016 our Fire-fighter: Do you know your address?

Mr Collins our Fire-fighter came to visit the class. 

He explained why he had to wear a special uniform and the children all asked some really good questions. 

Mr Collins asked: ‘Who do you call if there is a fire?’ The children were able to answer 999

He also asked: Do you know your address?  If there was an emergency the fire engine needs to know where to go, to get to the correct house. 

Not many children knew this information. 

It was suggested for homework: Find out what your address is, in case of an emergency. 

It was great fun trying on the special clothing that protects a fire-fighter when they are doing their jobs. 

Thank you Mr Collins for a great morning.  

Jobs Week in Reception WB: 14.11.2016

We had an amazing week with our visitors to the classroom.  

Our first visit was from Lance Sergeant Stuart Laing from the Welsh Guards.  All the children loved seeing Stuart in his selection of soldier uniforms.  

It was very impressive as he walked into the classroom wearing his bear skin hat.  

 

Which we later got to try on different parts of a soldiers uniform.  

We also got to hear him play his cornet and bugle and how the different tunes they made, meant different calls. 

We even had a go at marching around our playground with Stuart. 

 

Thank you Lance Sergeant Stuart Laing

We had a lovely morning. 

Holly came to visit us on Friday and talk to us about her role as a Midwife and Health-visitor and how she makes sure babies and their mummies are being looked after.  

How we weigh a baby and listen to its heart. 

Holly demonstrated to the children how heavy it is for a mummy to carry a baby in her tummy, using bags of flour.  Some of the children were surprised at how heavy the bag felt.  And no one wanted to have to carry the bag for a whole day, let alone 9 months!!  

 Thank you Holly, we had a lovely afternoon.