This week Reception have had a great time sharing their soft toys with the class. They really enjoyed playing games, making and eating their sandwiches for the Teddy Bear's Picnic. We have had a focus on mark making in the outside area using water and paint brushes. The children have also enjoyed using the big wooden blocks to build large models in the construction area.
The children have had a brilliant second week in Reception. We have continued with getting to know each other and they are doing a great job of learning each others' names. They have enjoyed the Rainbow Challenges this week and the children completed lots of them. We are looking forward to seeing all of the teddies and soft toys the children send in next week for the Teddy Bear's Picnic.
We have had a fantastic time this week getting to know each other in Reception. The children have had a great time finding out about their new classrooms and all of the things they can do in school. Their first taster session of lunch was a great success today and we are looking forward to Monday when they are all in together for the whole day.
This week we have been looking at dinosaurs, the children have had a great time learning lots of facts about a range of dinosaurs. At the beginning of the week it was great to find out what they already knew about them. We then went on to look at the features of different carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. The children have enjoyed making different habitats for the dinosaurs to live in, making dinosaur parks and drawing pictures of them.
We have had a fantastic week in Reception continuing our learning about the different invertebrates/minibeasts with a focus on ants. Everyone picked something to write a riddle about, giving clues for the other children to guess what they were thinking of. The children have enjoyed finding and sorting 2D and 3D shapes from our inside and outside classrooms. Sports day was a great success and we had a fantastic time with all of the activities!
This week we have had a focus on spiders, the children have loved learning all of the different facts about them. They were fascinated when we found out that some spiders do not spin webs. We had great fun making spider catching games and the children made up new rules to make them more challenging and interesting. The pumpkins and sunflowers we planted have been growing well and are starting to take over the outside classroom.
We have been looking at bumblebees and honey bees this week and have learnt some of the differences between them. The children made a class hive and made their own bees with their faces on. They also wrote some facts about bees and chose whether to make a butterfly, ladybird, snail or bee.
In Reception this week we have been continuing our minibeast topic looking at snails and slugs. We read the book Snail Trail and have been planning out, drawing and measuring our own snail's journey around the classroom. We have also been learning lots of different facts about slugs and snails and each of the children made a fact page. There have been some amazing transient art snails produced this week and the children have done a fantastic job taking pictures of their own snails.
This week we started our new topic of minibeasts. The children have loved telling us how much they already know about minibeasts and learning some new facts. We have been reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and talked about the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a butterfly. The children wrote short sentences in booklets to retell the story and completed addition number hunts around the classroom. In class we are learning lots of minibeast songs.
This week, Reception have been looking at the traditional tale 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. We have had a great time working through a D&T project making chairs and discussing the different types of materials you might use to make chairs for different purposes. The children also used simple co-ordinates to draw traditional tales characters to fill up their town on a map.
This week Reception have been learning the story of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' and acting it out in class. We have had a focus on adjectives and produced some great pictures with all of the descriptive words the children could think of to talk about their character.
This week Reception have had a great time learning and innovating 'The Enormous Turnip'. The children acted out the traditional tale playing the characters and they had the option to draw a story map, a story board or make a short book to describe what happens. We had some fun and interesting changes to the original story.
