In Reception we have been learning about money in maths. We are becoming familiar with the different coins and amounts, by the end of the week we will be solving problems involving money and learning how to use it in context.
We have been enjoying decorating eggs, painting spring flowers and making Easter Bunny masks in Reception this week.
Children in Class 1 and 2 loved dressing up as their favourite story characters to celebrate World Book Day! Here are just a few of their lovely costumes!
Children in Classes 1 and 2 have been enjoying the challenges that we set up in different areas of the classroom. These challenges link to our topic of ‘Who lives on a farm?’ And help us to practise the skills we have learnt.
In Class 2 we have been looking at problem solving and reasoning. We have been following instructions and exploring all the possible different ways of moving the animals on the shelves using positional language.
It has been reading week in Reception and the children have been pulling apart a letter from the duck that the nasty mean farmer chopped up. The children had to read the sentences and work together to put the letter back together in the right order to save the duck! Read more…
Children in Class 1 and 2 have enjoyed being able to handle and care for our chicks this week. The children have helped to take care of the chicks by cleaning their box, feeding them and giving them fresh water.
As part of our topic this week we have continued to learn about the animals that live on the farm. During our art and design lesson we used our fine motor skills to roll up cotton wool to make the first part of our paper plate sheep – we can’t Read more…
During half-term we had an exciting delivery to our mud kitchen. This week we have been busy using our scoooping and pouring physical skills, maths to discuss capacity and imagination to create ‘mud pies’ ‘chocolate pancakes’ and ‘chocolate fudge cakes!’ Yum Yum!
The children in Reception are embracing their new challenge today, they have all been given special independent writing books to look after and shiny new pencils to write sentences with. They are all eager to write about our new story ‘Farmer Duck.’