Category : Class Blogs
Our day of music and creativity!
We’ve had a wonderfully creative day in Reception, filled with arts and crafts that helped us practise our scissor skills and develop our fine motor control. The children really enjoyed getting hands-on with different materials and showing off their creativity. We also had lots of fun on our green top stage, where the children explored musical instruments, played along to familiar tunes, and expressed themselves through dancing and singing to some of their favourite current songs. It’s been a joyful day full of music, movement, and creativity!
Class 4 are Mathematicians
This week in Reception, we’ve been busy being brilliant mathematicians, exploring the exciting world of positional language. The children worked incredibly hard to demonstrate their understanding using the outdoor equipment, confidently using words like under, on top, in between, and inside to describe where objects and people were placed. They then put their learning into action by giving clear instructions to their friends, helping them move and position themselves using this new vocabulary. We finished the day with a fun and energetic game of Simon Says, which was a fantastic way to consolidate all the great learning from the week. Well done, Reception!
KS1: Reading
Today the children brought home their first set of reading books for the new school year. Please encourage your children to look after these books and keep them safe in their school backpacks. This year we are asking that children bring their reading books to school everyday. This is to avoid missing books on Fridays when books are changed and also because staff plan to read your child’s books with them as regularly as possible.
Here are the slides that explain how children learn to read at Green Top School and the types of books they may bring home to share with you. Please take a few minutes to read these slides so you know how we work to support your child on their reading journey.
If you require any help or support please contact your child’s class teacher as we are always willing to answer and questions or concerns you may have.
Click the link below to view the slides:
Year 1 Parents – All Year 1 children brought home the first Year 1 Shared Reading book this week. Children at the expected level will be able to read this book. Next week we will begin our new phonics groups and your child will be placed into a reading group that is best suited to their current ability. Next week your child will be given the shared reading book that is more closely matched to level they are working in their phonics groups. We want children to enjoy reading and to achieve this we want children to read books that are closely matched to their current phonics level.
Year 1: Numbots
Today the children brought home their log-in details for Numbots and TTRockstars. Children are welcome to use both games but at this time of year we find Numbots particularly useful. Children who use Numbots regularly often show greater confidence in their maths skills. The game may appear easy at first but the games are designed to teach children the skills they need in order to be able to answer harder mathematical questions later. Please introduce your child to the game but do not give them the answers to the questions. The games are designed to track your child’s individual progress and if anyone else uses their account it can effect the games given to you child and lead to gaps in their overall progress.
Children can earn certificates for completing the different stages of the game. We also give out special certificates in our community crew assembly for children with the highest number of minutes played/correct answers/stages completed etc. This varies from week to week but one child from each class will be rewarded with a certificate for the chosen reason.
Please watch the video below to find out more about how Numbots can help your child.
You might also find the following guides useful:
Class 7 – Box Houses!
Today, Class 7 have been learning about the houses that were built during the 1600s. We learned about how the Great Fire of London started and how the fire brigade has changed since this time!
We then started creating our own box model houses that will then make up our very own London!
Postcard winners of the week!
A huge shout out to some of this weeks postcard winners! I’m so proud of all of your efforts this week! I can’t wait to see some new faces receiving post cards next week!
Nursery- stick painting
Class 8 brilliant week
It has been brilliant to listen to the children read this week. They have really settled into our routines and they are all trying so hard!
We have also had some great maths lessons where the children have shown me what they know about place value and numbers up to 100. Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday! X x
Crew Wallace Play, Play, Play!
We have had a lovely busy week this week. New learning and lots of fun. We do our best learning when we play though and we have managed to fit lots of that in too.
Have the best weekend everyone.
Mrs Wallace x
Crew Wallace Maths
We have been talking about positional language this week. Teddy the frog came to help us and was sitting in some very unusual places. We had our own little people from our small world area and we had to listen to the instructions and follow them. Our favourite one was putting our little person “on top of our head”
Maybe you could have a go at home with some teddies of your own.
Mrs Wallace x