RCW: Blog items
Date: 15th Sep 2023 @ 4:36pm
What a fantastic week we have had in Reception! We have loved learning all about Mo and all the different super speedy ways he can move!
We also started our phonics sessions this week. Thank you so much for your support in making sure that you bring your book bag to school each day. We have sent home the phonics sounds that we have been practising this week so your children can show off how well they can read them!
We look forward to welcoming you back to school on Monday.
Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 7:15pm
? Welcome to Reception! ?
We have had a lovely week welcoming back our Reception children and meeting lots of new friends too!
This week we have been getting used to our new classrooms and have been exploring all of the new toys and things that reception has to offer inside and outside. The water area has definitely been a hit this week ??!
In literacy this week we have read the book 'a superpower like mine'. We have talked about what makes each of us super - being kind, caring, brave, funny and have all made our very own superhero pictures and labelled them with our names.
In maths we have looked at height and have read the book about Ernest the giant moose who just couldn't fit in a book! We measured things that were taller and shorter than us and used maths vocabulary to compare different objects.
Next week we are so excited to start reading the story 'Ready Steady Mo' and can't wait to get started with our phonics sessions!
June 3rd - #30DaysWild – Whole School Challenge 3 🌧☔️
Date: 3rd Jun 2020 @ 8:01am
As you know this month our school is going WILD! Here’s today’s challenge. I found this challenge on the free 30 Days Wild app. You can download it on the App Store or Google Play Store.
Just because it’s raining out there it doesn’t mean you can’t go wild! Get your Peppa on and pull on some wellies to dance in the rain.
Send your photos or short videos in and I'll put them up on our school blog
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult.
STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 3rd Jun 2020 @ 7:20am
Good Morning Reception – Happy Wednesday! We are already halfway through the week! Can you believe it?!
Let’s warm up for our maths learning today by listening to some maths songs below and taking part in today’s fluent-in-five!
That one was little bit tricky! How did you do?
Today in our maths learning, we are going to be focusing on counting one less and subtraction/taking away!
Let’s begin by counting backwards from 20! Ready… 20, 19, 18…..
Now try this with an adult at home.. Count backwards from 20 saying one less in turns. E.g Adults begin with 20, children say 19, adult say 18, etc…
Great! Do you feel ready for more subtraction learning? Let’s begin with our ‘Subtraction with Pirates’ song below! Yo-Ho!
Let’s help Pirate Pete with his subtraction!
Pirate the Pete has 4 chests full of treasure.
He uses 1 chest of treasure to buy a ship.
How many does he have left?
1……2……3! Pirate Pete has 3 chests left!
How can we write this as a number sentence?
4 – 1 = 3
Fantastic! Give yourselves a pat on the back if you got it right! J Let’s try the next one!
5 treasure maps are made for a journey.
1 map is stolen!
How many maps are left?
How can we write this as a number sentence?
3 Compasses are found by Sarah the swashbuckler.
2 of them are broken, so she throws them into the sea!
How many does she have left?
Can you work it out? Write it as a number sentence!
Make sure you email in your answers or pictures of your work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk! I can’t wait to hear from you! J Good luck!
I have also a ‘Pirate Subtraction up to 10 Worksheet’ below if you would like some extra learning!
Date: 3rd Jun 2020 @ 6:50am
Good Morning Reception,
Here are the answer’s to yesterday’s ‘Sentence of the Day…’
The small dog had lots of fur on his back.
Today’s sentence of the day is…
can yoo pass the broan paint.
Start by playing one word about the story ’10 Little Pirates.’ How many different words can you think of from the story in 1 minute? Listen to the story again from yesterday’s writing blog if you need to.
Today I would like you to practise your reading skills. I want you to read some words or sentences about pirates. Remember to use your segmenting and blending skills. Also don’t forget the tricky words that you should now be reading confidently. After you have read each word or sentence, can you draw or match to a picture?
Mrs Iqbal and Mrs Cooper’s Phonic groups – Practise reading the sentences and draw a picture to match the sentence.
Miss William’s and Miss Cogger’s Phonic groups – Practise reading the words and match to the correct picture.
Remember to send in your photos/videos to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 3rd Jun 2020 @ 6:43am
Good Morning Reception,
Let’s start our phonics today by recapping Phase 3 tricky words and the new tricky words from Phase 4.
Play fastest finger first. Your grown up will say a tricky word and see who finds it the fastest.
Play quick write. Your grown up will say a tricky word and you must write it without looking at the words.
Today we are going to learn a new sound called ‘ow’ think of the word ‘cow’ for this sound. Watch the video at the bottom of this blog where I am teaching you all about this sound.
Here are today’s practise and apply activities, which one will you choose?
Activity 1 – Play ‘ow’ sound roll and read.
Activity 2 – Make a word and use it. Choose a ‘ow’ word and read it. Then write the word and draw a picture of that ‘ow’ word and finally write a sentence using that word.
Activity 3 – Read the ‘ow’ sound story
Activity 4 – Play splat the ‘ow’ word. Find something to use as a splatter, make sure it is safe and check with your grown up. Write some of the ‘ow’ words on scraps of paper and lay them down on the floor inside or outside. Your grown up will say the word and you must splat it. You can also use the ow words from activity 2.
Remember to send in your photos/videos to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:15am
Arrrgh…..me hearties!
Now that we are learning about pirates in reception, I thought it would be a great idea if we make a craft linked to our new topic…. And what’s a pirate without their treasure!?
Today we are going to be making… A Pirate Treasure Chest!
How fantastic does that chest look!
You will need:
An Egg Carton
Gold Paint
Sequins
Treasure!( Coins/Gems/Jewellery etc)
How to make:
First, peel off any stickers from your egg box and paint two gold strips across the top! While the paint is wet, lay on a few sequins or glitter to stick to the paint! Add a lock to the front of the treasure box using a silver felt tip or pencil and leave to dry!
Now… get hunting for pieces of treasure!!!!
Have fun! I can’t wait to see pictures of your creations! J
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:14am
Good morning!
How did day 1 of our exercise challenge go ? Here's one of our exercise superstars playing basketball.
Well done to you if you also did some exercise !
If yesterday didn't quite happen for you, that's ok . Today is your day ! Let me know how you get on:
Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Harriott
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:07am
Good Morning Reception!
I am SO impressed to already see lots of fantastic work being emailed in from yesterday!! You are becoming superstars at careful counting and addition! Well done!
Let’s get ready for our maths learning this morning by listening and working out to our 'Count to 100' song below and taking part in today’s fluent-in-five!
This morning we have a very special task to complete…
We need to help the pirate to count his treasure! Take a look at the ‘1-15 Pirate Counting’ video below and help the pirate to count his golden gems!
Yo-ho! Fantastic! What number did you count to? How much treasure did the pirate have? How many gems would the pirate have if you added one more?
Today I would like you to take part in your own treasure counting activity!
You will need:
Tray of sand (or shredded paper)
Coin Cut-Outs (see attachment link – or make your own!)
Treasure Chest Posters (see attachment link)
Activity:
Parents begin by hiding the bronze coin cut-outs in the tray of sand/shredded paper or around the house!
Place the ten-frame poster showing the pirate looking for bronze coins alongside the tray. Children need to look for the bronze coins in the sand and place them onto the ten-frame as they find them. Ask children how many they found and ask them to carefully count and point to each one!
Repeat the activity by hiding the silver coins in the sand. Again, ask children to find them and place them onto the ten-frames to count! For the gold coins, ask children to find them and place them onto the lower-ten frame. The pirate has already found some gold coins so children can count on from ten to find the total number of gold coins!
Next steps:
Provide children with simple addition calculations i.e 2+ 2 and see if children can work this out using the coins and ten-frames! Encourage them to write this as a number sentence!
Don’t forget to email in pictures of your work or to tell us about your learning at receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk! We can’t wait to hear from you! J Good luck!
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:11am
Good Morning Reception,
Here are the answer’s to yesterday’s ‘Sentence of the Day…’
I have hurt my head with a ball.
Today’s sentence of the day is…
tthe small dog had loots of fuur on his bacc.
Yesterday we started a new story called ’10 Little Pirates.’ In this book we saw 10 pirates doing lots of different things. Listen to the story again by clicking on the video at the bottom of this blog. Answer these questions about the story with a grown up:
What were the 10 pirates hunting?
What went zap when the pirates were searching for their pirate mate?
What happened to the ship when the waves went crash?
Who went chomp to a pirate?
Who said ‘coo-ee!’?
Three little pirates were wondering what to do on the barrels. If you were one of the pirates, what would you do?
Look at this picture from the story. What can you see…? Write some captions or sentences about the picture.
Remember to send in your photos/videos to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
June 2nd - #30DaysWild - Whole School Challenge 2 🐛🌲☀️🕷🐾
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:09am
Hello again,
Just a reminder - This month our school is going WILD! Here’s today’s challenge
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE
I found this challenge on the free 30 Days Wild app.
Today why not look for signs of new life when you go out for a walk. I saw some ducklings at our local pond over the weekend (see short video) and look closely at the photo. What baby can you see? What is this baby animal called?
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Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult.
STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!
From Mrs Ganner
We have some fabulous photos below, just in from Alissia and Keira. Great bug spotting!
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:03am
Good Morning Reception,
Let’s start our phonics today by getting physical with Jack Hartman and the phonics workout. Click on the video at the bottom of the blog.
We will continue to think about the sound ‘ur.’ How many words can you read in a minute…? Don’t let the alien words trick you out!!!
Watch the ‘show me’ video where I am showing you how to write words using the ‘ur’ sound.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=FrCk1R2
Here are today’s practise and apply activities, which one will you choose?
Activity 1 – How many words can you think of with the ‘ur’ sound?
Activity 2 – What is the correct spelling?
Activity 3 – Play Buried Treasure on Phonics Play. Click on the 'ur' sound.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure
Activity 4 – Create a ‘ur’ poster using words that you have read.
Remember to send in your photos/videos to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:51am
Hello and welcome back to the start of our final half term of this school year !
As you know, Mrs Glover has been setting us wellbeing challenges to keep us feeling positive and productive over the last few months. It has been fantastic to look back at all the photos you have sent her showing your creative work!
For the next few weeks, Mrs Glover is lucky enough to be going into school each day to teach as we start opening up the school to certain year groups, so I'll be setting your wellbeing challenge.
So, here's your challenge for this week:
Can you set yourself an exercise goal for the week and try and do a different exercise each day? It could be going for a walk with your family, making up a dance , going on a bike ride, jumping on your trampoline, doing an online workout like Joe Wicks or doing 30 star jumps in your kitchen!
Use the chart below to record your exercise each day ( or just write it on a piece of paper if you do not have a printer) and send it in to:Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk . If you would like to share a photo during the week ,send it in too and I can post it on the blog for others to be inspired to try your idea !
I can't wait to see who can be an exercise superstar!
Mrs Harriott
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 9:01am
Good Morning Reception!
I hope you have all had a lovely break and have made the most of the fantastic sunny weather! How did you spend your break? I would love to hear all about what you got up to in the holidays! J
Let’s warm back into our maths learning by beginning with a fluent-in-five – you should all be experts at these now!!
This term in Reception, we are going to be learning all about PIRATES!
I thought it would be a great idea to use pirates to help us in our maths learning today, I have even included an exciting pirate song to listen to below! Take a look!
This morning in our maths learning, we are going to practise our addition skills by adding together pirate items and writing the calculation down as a number sentence.
You can begin by choosing one of the items below!
See if you can draw one of the items and see how many you can make! Count out each one at a time, adding one more as you count.
Ask your adult at home to write you a calculation – Can you work this out by using your pirate items? Now can you write your own number sentence? Take a look at the example calculations below… Can you work them out?
Below I have attached a link to even more pirate addition calculations if you would like an extra challenge! Don’t forget to email in pictures of your work or to tell us about your learning at receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk! We can’t wait to hear from you! J
#30 Days Wild Launch Day ☀️🌲🐾🕷🐛
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 8:18am
June 1st - #30DaysWild - Challenge 1
Hello everybody,
I hope you had an amazing half term and you’re as excited to be back completing home learning challenges as I am. This month our school is going to go WILD! Yes, that’s right, our mission is to do as many wild things as we can and have fun whilst learning outside.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE
Each day I will put up a wild challenge and you can take a photo of you and your family completing it so I can put it on this blog.
Here is your challenge for today, see how many wild minibeasts you can find outside:
Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog.
If you'd like to choose your own challenges download this app:
PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult.
STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 8:16am
Good Morning Reception,
This half term to begin our Reading and Writing blogs we will be doing something called ‘sentence of the day.’ Each day I will be posting a sentence that has some mistakes. Your job will be to look at my sentence very carefully and write it again but correct my mistakes. The mistakes are in a different colour to help you.
Here is today’s ‘Sentence of the Day…’
i have hert my head wiv a ball?
Today we are going to start a new story/topic. I wonder what it is going to be about…? Listen to the story by clicking on the video at the bottom of the blog.
Yes, we are going to start learning about PIRATES!!! Aaaaaarrrrr!!!!
In the story we met 10 little pirates. Talk to your grown up and answer this question…
What do you know about pirates? Can you draw some pictures and label them…? Use the mat below to help you.
Remember to send in your photos/videos to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 8:05am
Good Morning Reception,
I hope you have all had a relaxing half term holiday and are ready to continue with your home learning. It’s a strange way to start the final half term of the year but let’s see what happens over the next few weeks.
We are going to continue to learn Phase 3 sounds and begin to learn the Phase 4 tricky words.
Start by singing along to a new tricky word song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4
At the beginning of the video, I am reading 4 of the tricky words from Phase 4. Can you watch the video and read them? Practise writing the tricky words on some paper.
Our new sound today is ‘ur.’ Look at the pictures and words on the poster, which ones can you read?
This half term, each time we learn a new sound I will be posting a video to help you. Watch today’s video at the bottom of the blog.
Here are today’s practise and apply activities, which one will you choose?
Activity 1 – Label each picture with the ‘ur’ word.
Activity 2 – Find the ‘ur’ words in the wordsearch.
Activity 3 – Treasure hunt in the garden or room in your house. Write ‘ur’ words from the video on scraps of paper and hide them. Find a word and read it. Can you write the word on a piece of paper?
Activity 4 – Put some of the ‘ur’ words from the video into some super sentences.
Remember to send in your photos/videos to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 25th May 2020 @ 11:00am
Hello and happy half term!
I'm not going to be posting a daily challenge for you over half term but here is something you can do if you like. It's a funny time right now and it's one we may want to look back on in the future to remind oursleves what we did, how we felt and how lucky we are when it's all over. So I've attached a time capsule template for you use so that you can record some of these things, either by writing or drawing it's up to you.
You can either print it out, do it on a computer or just draw our each page for yourself. Do as much or as little as you chooe and feel free to share anything you do on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Stay safe,
Mrs Glover
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 12:36pm
To all our families who will be celebrating Eid this weekend...
We hope you have a lovely time but remember to keep safe!!!
Love From
Nursery and Reception Staff x
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 12:27pm
This week I have received some amazing photos and videos of children in RAI doing their home learning.
Well Done everyone!!!
Next week is half term and no new activities will be posted until Monday 1st June.
I hope you all rest up and have a lovely time. I'm looking forward to the half term because I'll be celebrating Eid and my birthday on Monday.
Take care and Stay Safe!
Love Mrs Iqbal
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 7:43am
Good Morning Reception!
Wow we can’t believe it’s the Friday before half term!!! Where has this half term of home learning gone!!!
Even though we have been at home doing our learning, it has gone really fast!!! I can't wait for the holiday (Mrs Iqbal) this time because I'll be celebrating Eid and my birthday on Monday! Anyway back to the Friday challenge...
This term we were looking at minibeasts and read these stories…
Today we would like you to show us which story has been your favourite story in a creative way. Here are some ideas to help you…
Draw or paint a picture from the story.
Make a model using recycled containers or boxes showing a character from the story.
Write a retell of your favourite story and make it into a book. Use the book template attached to the blog if you want to.
Make some masks, finger puppets, or stick puppets to retell the story. Make a video and send it to us. Minibeast mask templates are attached to the blog.
Pick one of the animals from the story you like and find some facts about it. Make an information book about that animal. A book template is attached to the blog.
Create a wordsearch with words from your favourite story. Decorate the wordsearch with pictures of animals from the story. The wordsearch template is attached to the blog.
Create a poster showing your favourite story. Don't add the title of the story but maybe just use pictures of the characters and some interesting words from the story. You could use some words that are repeated a lot like 'spinning her web.' from the The Very Busy Spider.
We can’t wait to see what you decide to do! Let’s see if we can guess which story/book has been your favourite…
Good Luck
Mrs Iqbal and Miss Williams
Send photos/videos to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 21st May 2020 @ 10:15am
Good morning, I hope you all found some way to enjoy the sunshine yesterday. I sent a lot of time in my garden and I have to admit even though I applied plenty of sun cream, I’m still a little pink! I hope you were all more careful than me.
We’re almost at the end of the week and today is the last kindness based challenge as I have something a little different for tomorrow.
I hope that you have been experiencing some acts of kindness this week as today my challenge is to write a kindness acrostic poem. This is where you use each letter of the word you choose to start a sentence or word.
I’ve attached a file that has a few different kindness words to use for your poem so you can choose one or choose more than one you like! As always if you can’t print then don’t worry, you can write it out on a piece of paper or even type it on a computer like I have.
I have chosen the word caring. Here is my poem.
Cooking for other people
Asking people how they are
Returning peoples phone calls and messages
Interest in what friends and family are up to
Niceness goes a long way!
Going the extra mile for those you love
As always please e-mail your poems to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
I'm very impressed with all the origami hearts you've all been making, some of you even made both hearts like I did! Here they are along with some other past challenges.
Date: 21st May 2020 @ 7:57am
Good Morning Reception!
Who would like to take part in a science experiment this morning?
Today we are going to be observing snails – a bit like the one from our story!
First, you need to make a snail home!
You can use any container with air holes as we are only going to be watching the snails for a couple of days, then you can release them back into your gardens!
After you have selected a container, use some soil/natural earth from outside to put in a layer at the base of the container/jar – fully covering the glass or plastic.
Add a layer of natural material at the top of the soil, like moss, compost etc. This traps moisture inside the soil, which creates good conditions for snails!
You could also decorate your snail’s home! Put objects in the container that snails can hide in or climb onto, which will make them more comfortable and more interesting to watch! You might find some of this material in your garden i.e small sticks or branches!
Finally, you need to find snails to put in your container! Look for snails in muddy garden area, old plant pots or other moist places (perfect with the wet weather today!)
Don’t forget – Garden snails are almost always safe to handle, but you must wash your hands before or after touching them!!
You can take care of your snails by, keeping the container moist with a spray bottle whenever the material at the base starts to dry out. You can also lightly spray the snails every day or two! Feed your snails clean food daily! They love fresh fruit and vegetables!
Below I have posted two links to support this activity:
The first link outlines another set of instructions on ‘How to Make a Snailery!’ if you would like to follow this experiment instead.
The second link is ‘My Snail Book!’ I thought it would be a lovely idea to document this process when observing your garden snails! Each page is filled with a fun activity linked to this investigation! See pictures below...
I hope you enjoy this investigation!! I can’t wait to see pictures of your snail friends! J
Date: 21st May 2020 @ 7:57am
Good Morning Reception!
Who is ready for some maths learning today?
Let’s begin with Thursday’s fluent-in-five!
This week in our maths blogs, we have been learning about how our numbers can be represented when using ‘tens frames.’ We have also used tens frames to help us with our addition and subtraction skills!
Take a look at the pictures below to see pictures of the tens frames that were created following yesterday’s blog post! Well done to these reception superstars! J I love all of your creative ideas!
In our maths blog today, I have attached some activities linked to our tens frame learning this week! The first activities I have posted are number representation matching tasks 1-5 and 11-20! You first have to trace the number to form it correctly, and then match the correct tens frame representation to the numeral! See an example of one below!
The second task is an ‘Exploring Number Bonds to ten’ activity. Children have to first choose a number sentence and create a corresponding ten-frame using cubes, counters or any other small item! There are three attachments for this activity below, the tens frame template, number sentences and counter cut outs! You can either choose to print these, or make your own!
Have fun! J
Date: 21st May 2020 @ 7:06am
Good Morning Reception!!
For the past two weeks we have been using the Julia Donaldson story ‘The Snail and the Whale.’ I want to read you the story, click my video at the bottom of the blog. Whilst you are listening to the story think about what your favourite part of the story has been.
Talk to your grown up or someone in your house about your favourite part of the story. Was it the beginning, middle or end? Remember to share your ideas in sentences.
Today I would like you to write and draw about your favourite part of the story. You can use this sheet attached to the blog or just do the work on a piece of paper.
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk