19 December 2018

Good afternoon!! Today in Reception we learned about number 8 with Miss Helen!!

First we read a story about an 8 legged spider and then we had to work in our notebook!! We had to trace the number 8 and then write it ourselves. On the next page we had to color the objects that were in groups of 8 only!!

After that we went to the art room to work with the watercolors! We painted a Christmas scene!

We had trees, stars and houses!!

18 December 2018

Good afternoon!! Today in Reception we started the day off by reading a story with Miss Paola!! She read the Nutcracker to us!! Just in time for Christmas!!

Then we had to draw a picture about the story!!

There were so many things we could draw!! The Rat King, the Sugar Plum Fairy or even the Nutcracker himself!!!

Then we played a game based on the Progetto Sigla, which is basically sight words!! One of us had to pick a card and answer questions from our classmates!

With our answers they had to guess what the object was!! Whoever guessed correctly would win the next turn!!

17 December 2018

Good afternoon!!! Today in Reception we started the day doing Weekend News with Miss Helen!!

This is always on of our favourite activities!!! We love to share what we did over the weekend and even more to draw it!!

Then after lunch we worked on Pre-grafismo with Miss Paola!! We had to trace the figures using alternating colors!

Then we had to draw the same shapes below and color each one an alternating color!!

It was not easy!!!!

14 December 2018

Good afternoon!!! Today in Reception we worked on Logic and Maths with Miss Paola!

We had to draw geometric shapes in a determined pattern!

Then we had to continue the pattern on the following lines! This was very hard because we couldn't just copy from the one above! We had to follow the pattern!!!

Then we had to color the shapes using the pattern!! One color for the triangles and one for the squares!

13 December 2018

Good afternoon!!! Yesterday afternoon in Reception, we worked with Miss Paola on our pre-grafismo and had to trace the dotted the lines and to copy the shape by counting the squares!! It was not that easy!!

Then today we practised for our Christmas concert with Miss Elena and Miss Helen!!

Everyone said that we are almost ready for next week and that we sounds really good!!

12 December 2018

Good afternoon!!  Today in Reception we learned about number 7 with Miss Helen!!!

We had to copy the number and color the 7 hats!

Then we had to color the objects that were in / and leave the ones that weren't blank!

Later we worked on our Memory Books and had to draw a picture of what was pleasant to us!!

Here someone drew a picture of two friends playing together!!

11 December 2018

Good afternoon!! Today in Reception we read a story with Miss Lindsay. It was called "The Mouse that Cancelled Christmas". It was a funny book about a mouse who though Christmas was dangerous and didn't want anyone to celebrate it!

After the story, Miss Lindsay asked us to draw a picture about the story.

Some of us drew the animals from the book setting up Christmas trees.

Others drew snowmen and the animals having fun!!

One of even drew the giant snow ball that all the animals found themselves in!

10 December 2018

Good afternoon!!! Today in Reception we started the day off with a practise for or concert on the stage with Miss Paola and then Miss Helen!! After we went into the art room to start working on our Christmas art project!!!

We had Styrofoam rectangles and had to paint them blue!!!

We used sponges to cover them evenly with the paint!!

Then we painted different wooden ornaments in white, silver and gold!!! It was so fun wearing the aprons!!

Then, after lunch, we worked with Miss Paola doing some pre-grafismo!

We had to follow the dotted lines to create a great picture and then color it in!!!

7 December 2018

Good afternoon!! Today in Reception we started our day off with Miss Paola reading us a beautiful story that Antonia brought!

It was about a bull and after we had to draw pictures of the animals from the story!

Most of us chose to draw the brown bull!

Then we did some pre-grafismo where we had to follow the dotted line to create shapes.

And to connect objects!

Once we were done we could play with the puzzles!

They were a lot of fun but also a bit hard!! We can't wait to put them together again!

6 December 2018

Good afternoon! Today in Reception we had an exciting visitor...... Saint Nicholas!!!!

He brought each one of us a sweet surprise.

While we were waiting for him, all very anxiously, we did Corners together with Nursery. 

Corners is always fun because we get to play with different types of toys and we have to pay attention to how many spots there are at each station!

5 December 2018

Good afternoon!! Today in Reception we started the day off learning about number 6 with Miss Helen!! We had to write the number and color 6 objects in our note book!

Then after snack we talked about Saint Nicholas with Miss Lindsay and Miss Helen! We each said what we hoped Saint Nicholas would bring us. To make sure Saint Nicholas doesn't get to worn out on his travels we made him bread! Miss Lindsay showed us the ingredients and explained to us what they do. Then she showed us how to mix it all together!

When the bread dough was all mixed and ready we were each given a piece to shape in to a perfect bun.

It was not that easy because it couldn't be a ball,

but it couldn't be flat either. It had to be round on one side and flat on the other!

Then we sent them down to the kitchen to be baked! After, when they were ready, Miss Paola and Miss Lindsay had us color a picture of Saint Nicholas and they wrapped up the bread for us to take home! It was a really great day! and now we just have to wait for Saint Nicholas!!!!!