Year R Blog – Autumn 1

In Year R we have been very busy. The children have settled in to Sinclair Primary School very well and are following the school rules of being ‘Ready, Respectful, and Safe’. They have had great fun playing with old friends and getting to know new friends.

We have been learning to recognise, count, write, represent and order numbers. We have been singing number nursery rhymes like ‘1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive’ to help us count by rote. To be successful counting objects, we learned to: ‘touch it, move it, say it.” We have applied our counting skills to real-life scenarios such as building towers, sofas and bridges, counting the cakes in baking trays in our own mud kitchen and counting the fish we caught from the water tray. We have also been counting our money to pay for items at the role play shop and exploring numbers in the environment.

We have been learning the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We have been retelling the story with puppets, masks and story maps so that we can tell it off by heart and read the book by talking about the pictures.

We have thoroughly enjoyed our autumn walk around the school to see what we could see, hear, feel, smell and taste during autumn. This inspired us to explore our environment using our other senses. We have been on listening walks, felt objects in feely bags, and used our sense of smell to try to guess the playdough flavour. We have also used our sense of sight to colour match objects. Finally, we have shopped in our supermarket role-play area and then cooking the food in our role play kitchen.