Week 4

 Don't Hog the Hedge!

We read the story "Don't Hog the Hedge" and discussed how Hattie The Hedgehog had been very kind to the other animals, who wanted to share her cosy hedge.  She was a kind and caring friend.

The animals in the story were getting ready to hibernate for the Winter.  Reception helped Hattie write a hibernating checklist.

Hedgehogs

The children have enjoyed exploring different painting techniques this week to make observational drawings.

 Stampoline Patterns for 5

Reception printed their own 5 patterns and used spatial language to describe it.

 Bushcraft Exploration

After wrapping up warm we ventured out into the bushcraft area.  We explored the mud kitchen, fairy garden, digging pits, dens, giant scales and crawling tubes.

Week 3

 Oi Frog

The children loved reading the book "Oi Frog" by Kes Gray this week.  They had a good giggle at flea's sitting on peas and dogs sitting on frogs and loved making up some of their own versions.​  We practised our rhyming skills while matching rhyming picture pairs.

Parts and Whole

This week the children have been learning about 'part' and 'whole.' We have looked at toys with different parts and even different body parts.  The children learnt that all the parts together make a whole.  We then moved onto making sets of 2 and 3. They learnt that 1 and 2 are parts of 3. Below is a link to the Numberblocks episode that explores 'part' and 'whole' 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08dr1l3/numberblocks-series-1-12-the-whole-of-me

As part of mastery maths this week the focus is how parts make a whole.  One of our continuous provision challenges was to complete a jigsaw, with the emphasis on how all the parts of a puzzle make a whole.

Week 2

 Rosie's Walk

Our story of the week is "Rosie's Walk" by Pat Hutchins.  We took an aerial photo of our group story maps.  We used position words and the maps to retell the story in the correct order.

 Theo and the Velvet Onesies

Reception were fascinated to learn children had to sleep underground during the war to stay safe in London.  We found out that the prime minister Winston Churchill's siren suit was the original onesie!  The children used loose parts to make their own poppy designs. 

 Lest We Forget

Reception observed the two minute silence on Remembrance Day.  We watched the Cbeebies animation 'Poppies' and talked about how the rabbit was feeling. 

 Children in Need

Thank you to all the families who have helped us to support Children in Need once again this year, by sending their children in non-uniform and giving donations to help raise £366.35 in total.  What a fab day we have had, and we raised money for a great cause at the same time!  The children enjoyed making their own Pudsey bear headbands. 

 Diwali

Reception listened to a story about Dipal and his family celebrating the Diwali festival of light.  As part of our finger challenges this week we created mehndi hand patterns.

Week 1

 Bonfire Night

This week the class have shared their stories about Bonfire Night. We watched a video of a firework display and used our phonics knowledge to write what we had seen and heard. We read the story "Sparks in the Sky" and learned how to keep safe during firework displays.  

 Firework Class Collage

The children loved developing their fine motor skills by drawing shapes and patterns with bright colours to make our own firework display.  Can you spot a spinning Catherine wheel or an exploding rocket?

 5 Little Peas

This week the children have been using the song 'Five Little Peas' when looking at the number 5.  They have been making collections of 5 using a hand template and then a die frame. The children soon realised that if you put two die frames together there are 10 in total - "5 and another 5 make 10 altogether".

 PE - Fireworks

In PE we listened to a piece of music and the sounds of fireworks. We described the sounds we could hear and created our own movements to go with the sounds. We wiggled for crackle, a star jump for bang and a spin for whizz. Once we had warmed up, we used ribbons to recreate the movements of the fireworks. We waved them up high, down low, in a circle and even wrote our names in front of ourselves. We had so much fun.