This term our topic in Reception is ‘Exploring our School’. We are learning all about our school including staff roles within. This week we learnt about our school office and how important it is for keeping our school running. The children interviewed Emma from our school office and asked her Read more…
Today we talked about Bonfire night. We discussed why we celebrate it and how to be safe at a bonfire. The children made their own special sparklers and made some chocolate apples which they ate in front of their bonfire.
This week we have been learning about 2D shapes. We have been looking for shapes in our environment. We played shaped hunters, searching for shapes around the classroom, made models out of shapes and looked at how 3D shapes print different 2D shapes!
Reception have been learning all about their family tree this week. We have discussed different strands of a family tree and where we are on our own family tree. Some of the children brought pictures in of their family and we put them on the right section of the tree. Read more…
This week reception have been learning the names and properties of 3D shapes. We have explored new language to describe 3D shapes and have been building robots to check which shapes we can stack and which one we can’t. Today we have experimented which shapes roll and which do not Read more…
This week we have been learning about all things Autumn! The children went on an Autumn walk as part of their homework and collected lots of natural resources to put in our tray. We have used our senses to describe our objects and used lots of vocabulary such as crunchy Read more…
This week we are learning about all the different nationalities we have in our class. We learnt how to say hello in different languages today and practiced greeting each other using the new words we had learnt.
In today’s music lesson we introduced the children to some musical instruments. We learnt the names of the instruments and listened to what different sounds they made. We added our instruments to one of our nursery rhymes.
This term Reception are focusing on the topic ‘Our families’. This week we have talked about our own families and who lives in our house. The children have been role playing families in the home corner, making paper dolls and painting pictures of their families faces in the creative area. Read more…
Reception have had a fantastic first week. They have made new friends and explored their new learning environment.