We have had a very exciting week in Reception thinking about the colours and sounds that fireworks make. We were impressed with the way the children used their phonic knowledge to help them write firework themed words. We would like to say a big thank you for sending your children to school in suitable painting clothes on Wednesday- all three classes had a wonderful time creating a Firework inspired splash painting to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. We have also been thinking about shapes this week and we used these to create shape rockets, we tried to name and describe the shapes.
Next Week: we will continue our Festivals theme by thinking about 
how different people celebrate their birthdays.
Key Things to know…
Book Focus: Kipper’s Birthday
Group Time Focus: segmenting and writing CVC words to help Kipper with his birthday list.
Maths: Exploring, creating and describing repeating patterns.
Phonics Focus: sounds c (curl down the caterpillar) and k (down the kangaroo’s body, tail and leg).
Rainbow Challenges (independent, open-ended provision)
Red Challenge – To cut out pictures of food to create our own party plates.
Blue Challenge – To create a repeating pattern and explain the rule.
Yellow Challenge – To write a list of the things that we might need for a party.
Green Challenge – To make a birthday cake in the Mud Kitchen and write our recipe.
Purple Challenge – (Outside) – to create a birthday party scene using the construction and role play equipment.