This week in Reception we have been learning about lists. We began by reading the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ and even made our own soup! We then made a list of the ingredients that we used, remembering to put each ingredient on a new line and using our phonic knowledge to hear the sounds that we needed to write. So next time we’re feeling hungry, we’ll know what to put in our soup!
This week Reception had a Learning Challenge afternoon. It was inspired by the story ‘Leaf Man’ and focused around using natural resources to make art.
The children took part in activities such as creating leaf pictures, dyeing cloth using berries, leaf rubbing and making transient art using things they found outside like sticks, leaves and stones. The children were able to access as many of the activities as they wanted and then we all met back together to share our work and discuss what we had done.
Here are a small group of children dyeing cloth using berries!
This week in Maths in Class 1, we have been looking at numbers to 5. We have been forming numbers and representing them using a range of objects. We have been linking this all to NumberBlocks. The children have been building the number block cartoons to match the picture of them and then counting them to make sure they are correct. Here’s a picture of the activity and a picture of our display we have been using to support our maths work.
This week in class 2 we have been celebrating ‘Pete the Cat’s’ birthday, he turned 5 this week!
We have been recognising numerals to five and counting out a specific number of items. The children have loved making play dough cakes for Pete.
This half term in Reception our focus text is ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.
So far the children have listened to the story and practised retelling it, ordered pictures showing the story events and drawn their favourite part. Over the coming weeks they will be identifying and describing the characters and settings. They are also learning the key features of texts, such as title, author, text and illustration.
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We have been enjoying the last of the warm weather in our garden recently. We are learning how to share resources and follow the rules. But most importantly, we have been making tonnes of new friends!
This week in number we have begun to learn about the numbers beyond 5. We are digging deeper when learning about numbers and investigating different ways to make our numbers.
We have stunned our teachers with how we are able to remember and transfer our knowledge of number bonds to 5 to these bigger numbers. We demonstrated that we have really understood the part-whole method as we were quickly able to see how we could split amounts in to two parts and then recombine to get our total.
This week in Reception we have celebrated Pancake Day by making our very own delicious pancakes.
We first, looked at a recipe to find which ingredients we needed and wrote shopping lists. We added the toppings we would like to the lists in the hope the teachers might treat us! Some of us requested whipped cream and strawberries!
On Shrove Tuesday we ordered the instructions and learnt to recite them using actions and sequencing words.
We all worked very sensibly in our cooking teams when making our pancakes.
The most exciting part was when we got to eat our pancakes. We thought they were yummy, delicious, nice, tasty and scrumptious.
Over the rest of the week we have learnt about how instructions are bossy and have time words. We have had a go at writing our own instructions.
Lots of the children have been excited by the new Frozen film. We explored some pictures from the film and from real life frozen landscapes to investigate ‘cold’, ‘winter’, ‘frozen’ colours.
The children really impressed us at what they noticed, especially when they started to notice the shades of colours in the pictures.
We used our new knowledge to create our own large scale ‘frozen’ process art.
We worked in steps. building up the layers, colours, shade and embellishments. The children worked collaboratively to produce their art work, that would hang proudly in any art gallery.
The children in Class 1 and 2 just love to build.
In the past few weeks the children have got ever more creative. The staff just love to watch the children working together, sharing ideas and using the materials in interesting and new ways. Take a look at some of our most recent creations.
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