The Lighthouse Keeper's lunch

The story: (click on the image)

Reception Bears walked down to the 
Forte de São João da Foz to understand 
the importance of a lighthouse on the safe 
navigation of ships and sailboats.

After the walk, nothing like a lighthouse keeper's sandwich.

Now, some time for sketching. 

 All done for today,
we are on our way 
back to school. 
We were able 
to name the landmarks
in this shop window.

These were some of our sketches:

by Lourenço




with sound effects 
by Maria




with the brick work
by Constança








an aerial view
by João

Our pictures, in colour, back at school

Gruffalo - our class assembly

We all stand together!

We all stand together are the last words to the song, Frog's chorus. The words represent how Reception Bears have bonded together and have made such a fantastic team.

Here you can see Paul McCartney's song at the end of our dress rehearsal.

World Book Day

These were the ingredients for a great celebration:

We came dressed up as a character from a book.

Mr Hooley came to read "The Gruffalo" - one of the many stories we will be reading this term by Julia Donaldson.

You can hear the story:

In the afternoon Mr Padden and his class invited us down to Form 4P to listen to some stories. Thank you Form 4 - that was lovely.

I live in this beautiful place

Over the past few months the class have been looking at some of the architectural features of Oporto / Portugal.

From sketches to tracing and painting, not forgetting ICT.

To culminate the project, we made a collective collage to celebrate the typical "Calçada Portuguesa."

The children also wrote about what they feel about the place we live in.

Castles and Dragons

This was a time to think about Princes and Princesses.
These are some tasks we worked on:

We wrote our own stories

We drew some castles using Paint

Reception Bears developed Mathematics and Fine Motor skills in weaving these beautiful castles.

A big thank you to João's Mummy for putting the cushions together. 

Please enjoy the culmination of our project:

Will you be my Valentine?

Reception Bears have expressed their love and affection in some independently written Valentine's cards.  
Here are some examples:

I love you Daddy












I love you Mummy

Gosto de Ti Primo
Rodrigo said his cousin did not speak English so his attempt was written in Portuguese.


















Olá Primo Carlinhos, eu adoro.te. Será que podes vir a minha casa logo?


I love you (baby) Sister

Word of the week

'Because' was a word discovered as a group this week.

Inês included "bicoz" in her writing about winter and snow.

100 Best Children's Books according to TIME

Click on image, follow slides.

Learn and Remember

Today in our group reading we were looking at some non-decodable words:
me       to       here          I            are
he       do       there        you
she      so       where
we      go
be

I said, "we had to take a 'photograph' of these words in our heads.

We have to learn these words".
Suhani pipes up: "We need to learn and remember!"

When I grow up I want to be...

We were learning how to read and spell:
me
he
she
we
be
We thought of sentences using those words.
I said, "When Grace grows up she wants to be a doctor."
Suhani quickly added, "and I want to be a princess."
I winked and said, "You already are a princess!"

Winnie the Witch

A story we enjoyed and would like to share with you.

Winnie's house

Vocabulary

A song

Building lego constructions

This weekend Ted had a great time 
building lego with me!


















At school, **** wrote about his
weekend independently. Well done!

First rhyming words of the year

We wrote some words that rhyme with the sound "at."

Can you think of any more?