Kangaroo Class Blog (YR)
Welcome to our new blog for 2024-25! We hope to share all the wonderful things we are learning about in Reception.
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Our Class teachers are Miss V. Thrippleton and Mrs G. Hughes (every Thursday). Our teaching assistants are Ms A. Adlam/Ms L.Grieve.
YR Curriculum Overview 2024-25 YR Writing Curriculum 2024-25
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Friday 15 November 2024 Friday 15th November 2024 This week we have been very busy learning about Remembrance Day, Autumn and Children in need.
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Friday 8 November 2024 Friday 8th November 2024 It was fantastic to see the children return from their half term break full of energy and excitement. We started our new topic, 'Sparkles, Seasons and Celebrations' and term 2 ignited with a spark, bursting into action like a sky full of fireworks.
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Friday 18 October 2024 Friday 18th October 2024 Adventure Awaits: A Day in the Little City Role-Play Wonderland!
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Friday 13 September 2024 Friday 13th September 2024 We had a fabulous week in Kangaroo class this week! I am so impressed with how well the children are doing. There are some lovely friendships blossoming and the children are kind and respectful to each other. This week our focus was on feelings so we read the colour monster to help us understand how colours can link to our emotions. The children enjoyed learning about the different colour monsters and we saw lots of beautiful artwork inspired by the story. The children have created different representations of feelings when playing in the environment. The pineapple faces game was very popular and the emotion rollers in the playdough were well utilised this week. The children have all had a go at drawing a colour monster and talking about what makes them feel a certain colour. As well as learning about feelings we have been learning about the school community so on Friday we went on a tour of the school. The last stop was the adventure playground which the children enjoyed exploring. Pl
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Friday 6 September 2024 Friday 6th September 2024 Kangaroos have had a wonderful start to school and I can't believe they have only been in school two days. All the children are settling brilliantly into school life and are learning to follow our rules and routines.
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Friday 5 July 2024 Friday 5th July 2024 Kangaroos have had a very busy week inspired by the story, 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch.' The children enjoyed listening to the story and talking about the different ways they might stop the seagulls from pinching Mr Grinling's lunch. We were surprised to discover that mustard sandwiches would keep them away. We thought it would be a good idea to make sandwiches so at the beginning of the week we wrote instructions and at the end of the week we followed these to make a sandwich.
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Friday 10 May 2024 Friday 10th May 2024 Dear Zoo was our focus story for the week and the children were able to read this independently by Friday. The children enjoyed thinking about what pet they would like from the zoo and why. This inspired them to have a go at writing a letter all by themselves. Throughout the week the children enjoyed creating zoos, playing 'what am I?' by hiding animals in different packages and retelling the story using our story sack puppets.
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Friday 3 May 2024 Friday 3rd May 2024 What's happened to the furniture? There is food everywhere!! We must have had a tiger come to tea!!! The children were very excited to find pictures of a tiger in our classroom which inspired our writing for the week. The children have created some fantastic lists of things a tiger might eat. At the end of the week we thought about the party we would like the most and wrote some invitations. We discussed our favourite party food, games and themes for the party.
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Friday 19 April 2024 Friday 19th April 2024 It was so lovely to welcome back the children this week! It was nice hearing how everyone had spent their break. This week we started our topic of Amazing animals and the children put their learning from the school trip to good use when we discussed farms. In our topic lessons we learned about different types of farm arable and pastural. We thought about the animals that would live on a pastural farm and the types of crops that would be grown on an arable farm. In the children's play they have enjoyed creating farms and talking about the needs of the different animals.
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Friday 15 March 2024 Friday 15th March 2024 Supertato and the Evil Pea present Jack and the Beanstalk
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Friday 2 February 2024 Friday 2nd February 2024 Star gazing, astronaut food and spaceship creations!
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