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Date: 26/10/2026
Team: Reception E
Teachers: Teacher Sean, Teacher Betty, Teacher Niki, Teacher Pan
Subjects of the Day: Early Sound Systems, English PBL
Specialist Lesson: PE
🌟 Autumn Leaves, Tricky Sounds and a Cosy Little Hedge! 🌟
We’ve had a wonderful start to our autumn-themed week in Reception E! 🍂🍁 Today, we combined our phonics learning with a fun autumn game before enjoying a lovely new story about woodland animals, friendship and the importance of sharing. It’s been a great way to begin exploring this beautiful time of year! 😊🌈
🔤 Early Sound Systems (ESS) – Autumn Phonics Fun!
In ESS today, we began by reviewing all the sounds we have learned so far, including our single-letter sounds and digraphs. Regular revision is an important part of developing the children’s phonics knowledge, helping them become more confident and independent when recognising sounds and blending them together to read words. 📖🌟
We then played a fun autumn-themed phonics game! 🍁 Some mischievous autumn leaves had fallen onto our words, covering up their initial sounds! The children were given pictures and the remaining letters of different CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, and their challenge was to work out which beginning sound was hiding underneath each leaf.
This was a lovely way to practise our phonics skills while also developing the children’s ability to think carefully about the sounds in words. By using both the pictures and the letters they could see, the children had to use their knowledge of blending and segmenting to identify the missing sounds. What a fun way to bring a little autumn magic into our phonics lesson! ✏🍂
🍎 English PBL – Don’t Hog the Hedge!
In English PBL today, we began our autumn-themed learning with a wonderful story called Don’t Hog the Hedge! 🦔🍁
Our story introduced us to Hattie the Hedgehog, who was very busy preparing her cosy little home for the long winter ahead. As the weather grew colder and the leaves began to fall, Hattie was getting ready for hibernation, when some unexpected visitors arrived!
This heartwarming story introduced us to several important ideas. We explored how animals prepare for winter and hibernation, while also thinking about the importance of kindness, sharing, friendship and helping those in need. Hattie’s journey from wanting her hedge all to herself to discovering the happiness of sharing provided a lovely connection to the values we have been exploring throughout our PBL learning. 🌱😊
The story also gave us a wonderful opportunity to introduce autumn vocabulary and begin thinking about the changes we see in nature as the seasons change. 🍁
It’s been a lovely beginning to our autumn-themed week, with plenty of opportunities to revisit familiar skills, explore seasonal ideas and enjoy a beautiful story with an important message.
We’re looking forward to continuing our autumn adventures over the coming days!
Have a lovely evening, everyone! 💛😊✨
各位家长朋友：大家好
今日课堂，我们融合分级阅读与趣味数学活动，让孩子们在游戏探索中积累知识、锻炼思维，收获满满。
🌟首先开展分级阅读复习活动。为了让字词复习更有趣、更高效，我们创新了游戏形式，一改传统跟读复习的模式，开启自主提问、集体复盘的全新玩法。活动中，老师鼓励每位小朋友大胆举手，主动指出自己还有些不认识的字。随后，全体小朋友共同动脑，一起回忆、探寻这些生字出现在已学绘本的哪一句内容中。
🌟这个趣味小游戏不仅帮助孩子们精准查漏补缺、巩固已学字词，更重要的是培养了孩子勇敢提问、乐于求知的好习惯。让孩子们明白，遇到不认识、不理解的知识不用害怕，大胆表达、共同探讨就是最好的学习方式。
在全员互动、集体回忆探寻的过程中，🌟阅读活动后，我们开启了趣味数学主题活动——认识对称。本次活动以绘本《什么是对称？》为导入，用生动直观的绘本内容，带领孩子们走进奇妙的对称世界。
🌟课堂伊始，我们从自身出发探索，孩子们纷纷伸出左右手，双手轻轻合拢重合，直观发现我们的双手、人体轮廓都是对称的结构。随后，我们观察人脸图片，孩子们细致发现五官分布均匀、左右对称，解锁了人体的对称小秘密。
🌟在观察蝴蝶图案时，孩子们展现出超强的观察力与思考力，主动分享自己的发现：“蝴蝶飞起来的时候，两边的翅膀可以完全重叠，大小和形状都是一模一样的！”老师顺势总结讲解，帮助孩子们精准理解对称的核心概念，让抽象的数学知识变得通俗易懂。
🌟掌握基础概念后，孩子们开启了生活中的对称大搜寻。恰逢阅读课的生字板书未撤除，孩子们敏锐地发现，我们学过的汉字中也藏着对称的奥秘！大家积极观察、认真甄别，自主找出了大、里、天、米、来、羊等对称汉字，将识字积累与数学知识巧妙结合，实现了跨领域知识的融会贯通。
🌟整节数学活动中，孩子们专注力十足、乐于观察、善于思考、积极表达，展现出极佳的学习状态和良好的探究品质。
为进一步巩固所学知识，延伸课堂学习，老师布置了趣味家庭小任务：请小朋友们在生活中继续寻找对称图案，可以观察家里的窗帘、门窗、生活用品等，将找到的对称物品拍照分享至班级群。我们将在下节数学课堂上集中分享交流，持续深化孩子对对称概念的认知，充分锻炼孩子们的观察力、想象力和自主探究能力，让孩子们在生活中感受数学、爱上思考！
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