Kangaroo Class Blog (YR)
Welcome to our new blog for 2023-24! 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 (Tuesdays). Our teaching assistant is Ms A. Adlam/Ms L.Grieve.
YR Curriculum Overview 2023-24 YR Writing Curriculum 2023-24
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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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Friday 26 January 2024 Friday 26th January 2024 Five little men in a flying saucer flew around the world one day...
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Friday 19 January 2024 Friday 19th January 2024 The Smeds and The Smoos have inspired our learning this week. The children have loved retelling the story and completing work linked to the text. Following a discussion on the planets visited in the story, the children decided that they would create their very own planet. It was great to see the children chatting about what would be on their planet for example we had a rainbow planet and at the end of the rainbow would be treasure. Another planet was a sweet planet with hanging candy canes and swirly lollipops. The children loved creating their very own alien that they might meet on their travels in space. I also set the children of photographing their amazing work and I was impressed with their photography skills. Can you tell which pictures the children took and which ones adults took?
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Friday 12 January 2024 Friday 12th January 2024 5, 4, 3, 2,1 Blast off... we had an amazing first week back in Kangaroo class. We started the week with the story 'Toys in Space'. The children quickly picked up new vocabulary to discuss the feelings of the characters. As part of our activities this week the children had the opportunity to create their own space story, draw their favourite toys that they would take into space and use the ipads to practice their letter formation. At the end of the week we created some lost posters because Sam the dog floated off into space and went missing. As a class we thought really hard about how we could search for him and the children designed and made different modes of transportation that could be used to locate him such as jet packs and hot air balloons.
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Wednesday 20 December 2023 Wednesday 20th December 2023 We made it to the end of term!! We have really enjoyed celebrating Christmas this week in Kangaroo Class.
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Friday 1 December 2023 Friday 1st December 2023 Run run as fast as you can you can't catch me....or can you?
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Friday 17 November 2023 Friday 17th November 2023 Don't you know there is no such thing as a Gruffalo...or is there?
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