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Welcome to our first newsletter !
A warm welcome to our Reception children and their families. We have had a fantastic beginning of the school year despite the rainy day and cyclone. We have loved getting to know your children over these last few weeks and we are excited for the year ahead.
In Reception we provide a variety of both indoor and outdoor learning opportunities daily as children's optimal development takes place through the amazing world of PLAY.
" Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning.
But for children, play is serious learning.
Play is really the work of childhood." (Fred Rogers)
Through play, children build confidence; feel happy, loved and safe; develop social, communication and language skills; learn about caring for others; develop physical, perceptual and motor skills; and connect and refine learning pathways to the brain.
Enjoy this window into our classrooms, giving you a better idea of your child's daily experiences in Reception Yellow and Green.
Ms Emilie, Ms Annecila, Ms Ansy and Ms Lea
Personal , Social and Emotional development
This encompasses the development of self-confidence, independence, perseverance, resilience, self-regulating emotions, understanding about their own and others' feelings, making friends and getting along with others. Most of the children have now settled well and are starting to build healthy relationships with their teachers and friends. Every day we observe more interaction with their peers and we have noticed special friendships forming.
Children are encouraged to participate in a range of play-based learning opportunities with their peers. Whilst developing their understanding of the world around them, play help them to communicate, share and work together as a team.
Outside, the children work together when engaging in imaginary play, building and constructing and when using the playground equipment.
Construction Play
Princesses are getting ready for a dance 🥰
We have two little "Chief Cook" in the class 🧑🍳
Working together to make a building with the legos.
Helping each other to move the tyres.
Messy painting on the table and cleaning up together afterwards
Having fun in the moon sand
Emergent Literacy and Numeracy
Emergent Literacy and Numeracy covers fundamental skills required in order for young children to be ready to develop the more formal skills required in Literacy and Numeracy.
In Emergent Literacy, our children have been learning to identify their names around the classroom and what their name looks like. Reception children have painted beautiful self-portraits, and made faces, developing self-identification, knowledge of their physical features and how to create this on paper.
We are learning how to say our body parts in English and in French. Developing language further, our children keenly participate in songs and rhymes daily in both French and English.
In Emergent Numeracy, we have been learning about our daily routines and mathematical language like 'before' and 'after' for example: "Before we go to lunch, we need to wash our hands." and "Who can remember what happens after we have played outdoors?". They also begin to learn about primary colors (red, blue and yellow) and shapes.
Painting a rainbow
We have learnt how to start from the left to the right
We made faces using loose parts
We painted a self-portrait
Mixing Blue and Yellow to make Green
We are practicing to write our name on the table or small whiteboards with markers
Sorting of "Primary Colors "
Counting with sticks
Cutting leaves
Tracing around the shapes and colour in.
Free Painting
Free painting
Working on a vertical surface develop the children's:
- gross motor skills
- shoulder elbow stability
- wrist and pencil grasp
- visual attention and hand/eye coordination
- spatial awareness
- midline crossing
- core strength and muscles coordination
Perceptual, motor and physical development
This refers to how children start taking in, interpreting, and understanding sensory input and forms the foundation for all learning. Our children have been developing important fine motor skills and their independence skills in learning to unpack and pack their own bags, take care of their belongings; and manage basic self hygiene in their toilet routines. Our little ones have also engaged in various sensory activities such as playdough, painting our hands and feet, sand and water play, building puzzles, threading, walking on the tyres, jumping, climbing and swinging. All these activities are helping those tiny hands and little bodies become strong and ready for longer concentration spans and tasks such as handwriting.
Working on our balance by walking on the tyres
Jumping with two feet on the ladder
Hand and eye coordination
Sensory fun with sand, cups and different sizes of spoons
Water play with seringes, spoon and cups
Catching the lids in the water tray using sticks
Water play with spoons, cups and measuring jar
Make small balls with the playdough and place it in the pop it
Using the tweezer to place the little balls on the pop it.
Threading
Removing the leaves on the branch. They cut the leaves with scissors afterwards.
Celebrating our first full week of school with some fun, messy painting. They used seringes and paintbrushes. They also painted their hands and/or feet and print on the fabrics. So much fun!
Sensory fun with the rice!
Use and control of small manipulatives
Working our balance on the balance beam
Thank you for a fantastic start of this school year and for your help with the Home Learning during the rainy days.
We are so blessed and happy to have your family joining Lighthouse this year.
Thank you ! 😊
Reception Team
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