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 get 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.