Week 6

Easter

This week in Reception we continued exploring our Spring topic, with a special focus on Easter and how Christians celebrate this important time of year. The children learned about the meaning behind familiar Easter symbols such as chocolate eggs, hot cross buns, and the cross, and we talked about why these items matter to many Christian families.

We also listened to the Easter story, helping the children understand why Easter is celebrated and the themes of new life and hope that run through it.

Throughout the week, Reception enjoyed a whole range of Easter activities, including, designing and decorating an Easter chick, making tasty chocolate nests, singing cheerful Easter songs and ending the week with an exciting Easter egg hunt in the outdoor area.

Family Workshop

We had such a lovely morning welcoming our grown ups into school.  The children sang their Easter songs beautifully, then enjoyed making a special Easter card together.  Everyone also got stuck into some fun maths games, showing off their brilliant number skills.  A big thank you to all the parents and carers who joined us and supported the workshop, your involvement means so much to the children and to us.

Week 5

Eid

Poppy class learned all about Eid, the festival that marks the end of Ramadan. The children enjoyed making Eid cards, creating mehndi patterns and making a crescent moon decoration.  In the afternoon they tried some traditional celebrational foods such as dates and samosas.

Even Tops

This week in Reception we explored sorting objects by colour, size and shape, and the children even invented their own ways to organise things.  They also revisited doubles and used Numberblocks to spot which numbers have “even tops”.  A lovely week of noticing patterns and building early number sense.

Week 4 

Fruits and Vegetables!

Supertato

In Literacy, we wrote sentences to describe Supertato, thinking carefully about the words we chose.  Inspired by Sue Hendra’s brilliant story, we then designed and created our very own superhero and villain vegetables.  Look at our amazing models!

Reception also had a fantastic week completing superhero challenges linked to our story. 

Oliver's Fruit Salad

This week we enjoyed reading "Oliver’s Fruit Salad" by Vivian French and created our own healthy, colourful fruit kebabs.

Doubles

This week in maths, the children explored doubles by spotting when two parts are equal and combining them to find the whole.  They used dice, fingers, objects and even butterfly wings to make and describe doubles, growing in confidence as they began to 'just know' some doubles without counting.

P.E.

In P.E. this week the children moved liked woodland animals and used the apparatus to jump, slide and balance.  We focused on landing safely on two feet and bending our knees. 

Week 3

The Gruffalo

Our story of the week is "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson.  We made a delicious Gruffalo crumble.  Can you spot the purple prickles, orange eyes, knobbly knees, black tongue, brown fur, poisonous green wart and terrible tusks?

Seven 7

This week in Maths we explored the number 7.  We described the parts of a whole set.  The children used visual patterns to spot the numbers within a whole and practised breaking 7 into two parts.  We used our fingers to show that 7 can be made as '5 and 2 more'.

Week 2

Six Dinner Sid

Our story of the week is "Six Dinner Sid" by Inga Moore.  It is a fabulous story about a sly cat who manages to have six dinners a day!  We created lost cat posters for our star writing challenge.  

Mog and the Vet

We listened to a story about Mog the cat, who had to visit a vet after she hurt her paw.  Reception enjoyed playing in the vet role play.

8 or NOT 8

In Maths we worked with a partner to sort the images into 2 piles, 8 or NOT 8.  We continued to develop our understanding of 8 as '5 and 3 more'.

We also sequenced Numberblocks from 1-8 and noted that each block is '1 more' than the previous one.

Bedtime Book Bash

To celebrate World Book Day, we held a cosy Bedtime Book Bash!  The children came dressed in their pyjamas and brought along their favourite cuddly toys, ready to enjoy some special stories.  The older children kindly shared books with Reception, creating a lovely calm storytelling time together. To make the event even more fun, everyone enjoyed a delicious milkshake treat topped with cream and marshmallows!

Week 1

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Reception have been learning all about Chinese New Year and listened to the story "Maisy's Chinese New Year" by Lucy Cousins.  We set up a Chinese take away in our role play area, counted out money to pay for food and made menus.  Reception tried Chinese food and talked about their likes and dislikes.  Using chopsticks was tricky!  We made paper crafts and completed a Numicon dragon in Maths.

Star Write!

In our writing this week the children have been writing about what they can see.  They thought of a sentence, said it out loud and then wrote their sentence about Chinese New Year.

Investigating the '1 More and 1 Less' Pattern 

This week the children have been sorting Numberblocks in the correct order. The children noticed that when the Numberblocks are in the correct order they look like stairs.  We looked carefully at the 1 more and 5 'and a bit' patterns to 10.

Reception made their own towers by adding 1 more or cutting off a square.  This developed their understanding that every whole number is ‘1 more than’ the previous number, and ‘1 less than’ the following number.