Summer B

Week 2

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Reception have been listening to different versions of the traditional tale "The Three Billy Goats Gruff". The children have drawn their own troll and described his features. We also worked in teams to design and build a safe way for the goats to cross the river. The children used their resilience and team work skills brilliantly to create some fantastic strong and practical ideas. Look at our amazing bridge models!

Rekenreks

This week the children have been introduced to rekenreks in maths. A rekenrek is similar to an abacus and we have been learning how to use it. Instead of counting each bead one by one, the children have been practising how to subitise by looking at a group of beads and knowing how many there are straight away. They have been putting their finger in the correct place and moving the beads across together to show the number. The children have picked this up so quickly and have already shown great confidence in just a couple of lessons!

Stars of the Week!

Our stars of the week this week are:

Mason for improvement in his letter formation.

Annamaria for progress in letter sound recognition.

Week 1

I Can Grow a Sunflower

Reception have been looking after their sunflower seeds over the last few weeks. We have been carefully watering our shoots and measuring how tall each plant is growing. The children used their maths skills to measure their sunflowers with cubes and recorded how tall they have grown. Next week we are hoping to take them home so the children can continue to look after them until they grow into beautiful sunflowers.

Measuring using Cubes

In class this week the children have been measuring objects with multilink cubes and comparing their heights identifying the tallest and the shortest. We have also been ordering pictures of sunflowers from shortest to tallest.

Flower Observational Drawings

The children enjoyed drawing flowers with pastels. They looked closely at the petal shapes and used what they noticed to show the size and colour of each flower.