Scarisbrick Hall School Winter Newsletter 2014 | Page 7

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The children have settled so well into life in Reception
Scarisbrick Hall School.

We spent the first half term exploring the world and environment around
us, making close observations of the seasonal changes. During the topic
“Ourselves”, the children enjoyed talking about themselves and their
families. The children really enjoyed exploring their senses through a range
of multi sensory experiences.

Santa’s Workshop
This term we have been looking at toys, as this lends itself well to this time of year and the
Christmas celebration! To begin our topic all the children brought their favourite toy into
class to talk about. Children were encouraged to talk about their favourite toy using lots of
describing words. We have also looked closely and talked about the differences between a
range of ‘old/new’ toys.
The children have been very busy creating our own class
toy shop, making signs, labels, shopping lists, receipts and
collecting toys to sell. We have been using our class toy
shop to explore and investigate money, using coin values
of £1 and £2 to buy toys from the shop keeper.
We have been making 3D toys, using a range of recycled
materials, looking at and making our own toy catalogues
and writing our Christmas toy wish lists.

Christmas Crafts
A big thank you to all the parents that joined us for our
Christmas Craft morning. The children were very
excited to share the experience with you. We had our
very own ‘elf workshop!’ Lots of busy elves creating
wonderful Christmas cards, magical reindeer food,
glittery snow globes, building an Olaf snowman,
decorating Christmas cookies, and making a salt dough
Christmas decoration. A great time had by all!
Also this Term……. Whilst learning and developing our
skills in the classroom we have been exploring the outdoors.
During our woodland learning environment session on Tuesdays we have learnt about different trees and
how we can use them to make our own Christmas decorations to decorate our classroom.
During our weekly Spanish lessonswith the specialist teacher Miss Marriot we
have learnt how to say hello, goodbye, thank you and ‘my name is…’ We have
learnt to sing the ‘Buenos Dias’ song and a colours song. …white ‘blanco’, red
‘rojo’, green ‘verde’, blue ‘azul’ and yellow ‘amarillo’.
We have also been practising hard for the First School performance. We have
enjoyed performing ‘Cock-a-Doodle Christmas’ in front of all our mummies
and daddies. All we are waiting for now is Father Christmas to come.
We are all extremely excited!
Such a busy term in Reception! Happy Christmas everybody!