What another fantastic week this week in RC. 

We have done some new learning in our Maths, continued with our special place topic in RE, looked at our feelings and emotions in PSHE, started a new book in Drawing Club and learnt a lot about Japan in our UTW. 

We have all tried so hard this week with Miss Callaghan nearly running out of stickers!!! We have earnt lots more flowers in our rewards jar and had lots of prizes for being superstars. 

We started our week off with our weekly Monday stay and play where we had lots of new activities for our maths, phonics and reading we was very excited to get out of the cold and rain and get busy with out adults. 

In Drawing Club this week we have read 'Ame goes to Japan'. We have really enjoyed listening to Ame travel around Japan. We looked at some pictures of where Ame had visited on google maps. We looked at Mt Fuji and some of the markets Ame went too. We also learnt some Japanese too we know how to count to 3 in Japanese and how to say hello and good morning. Our favourite word was 'Saur' which is monkey in Japanese. 

On Monday Afternoon we practiced our names and making sure we had our letters the right way. We found it really fun finding our own names and then practising using our own whiteboard pens and rubbers. 

On Monday in Maths we looked at objects with similarities and differences. We group different objects bases on their colour, shape, size and names. We looked at what we could see was the same about them and what things we knew was different. We used a lot of partner talk with our shoulder partner to discuss this. 

Miss Callaghan brought some different coloured shaped buttons, we talked about how each one was different shapes and colours and we grouped them in colours and then grouped them in the same shapes. Miss Callaghan also brought some coloured ice blocks we talked about how they was different but we had equal amounts of both the groups. 

A few children during provision time really enjoyed creating their own show with the stage. They set up some chairs to create an audience and took it in turns to create their very own puppet show.

We heard lots of laughs, cheers and even some boos to the bad guys from the audience. The children really enjoyed it.  

In PE this week we have been looking at our balancing skills and ways to get around the hall. We practiced balancing a cone on our heads whilst moving across the hall. We also practiced going in and out of the cones different ways. 

We really enjoyed PE this week and really enjoyed working in a team with other children in our class showing off our teamwork skills. 

On Wednesday in maths we worked together in groups to look at odd and even numbers. We used numicon to help us see what numbers were odd and even. We talked about what made the number odd and how we knew the number was odd and what made a number even and how we know it is even. 

We then worked in our groups and sorted out odd and even numbers. We used felt tips to draw around the different numicon in the right groups. 

In our Mountain Challenges we have created a surprise Challenge. During the week there will be one extra mountain challenge, once you have done all three this extra one means you can go on the princess castle or the scary dragon. We have loved this and Reception picked their own pictures of these to use on the mountain. 

In RE we have continued to look at special places and the different types of special places of worship. We looked at our school Church and talked about why it is so special, what makes it special and how it makes people feel. We spoke about our trip next week to church also. Some of the children talked about similarities and differences between a Church and a Mosque. Some of the children showed us in circle time how they pray at Mosque and some children showed us how they prayed at Church. The children really enjoyed sharing their experiences of this and loved to show their friends.