For national poetry day, Reception looked at poems from Michael Rosen’s book ‘Ready for Spaghetti’. We read ‘Bumblebee and Butterfly’ and ‘snail’. The children spotted the rhyming words and made their own butterflies, bumblebees and snails!
Yesterday was our Teddy’s birthday. In maths, we carefully counted to 5 and put candles on playdough cakes for him. Outside we made some mud cakes in the mud kitchen.
Last week, Reception enjoyed exploring in the mud kitchen, and painting outside. We used our cutting skills to make our own octopus’ in D&T.
To celebrate our Queen’s historic Jubilee, we danced to the most famous songs from each of the decades she has reigned for. Reception/Nursery: 2010 Year 1: 2000 Year 2: 1990 Year 3: 1980 Year 4: 1970 Year 5: 1960 Year 6: 1950 The full video of each class’s groovy Read more…
This week children are starting our read write inc phonics programme. The last two weeks we have learnt the pictures that go with the letter sound only. Today we have started to learn the letter sound too and some children chose to practise writing the sound on the white boards. Read more…
We have been learning about weight in maths and estimating which item we thought would be the heaviest and the lightest. The children were very good at this and guessed most of them correctly.
‘Squiggle while you wiggle’ is a fun way for children to develop their fine and gross motor skills whilst encouraging early writing. Children use both hands to make circles and lines whilst wiggling to music. This week we used chalk and chalk boards to make the marks.
Today the children in nursery prepared a mini morning tea for their Mummies, Grandmas and Nannas. The children we’re so excited for them to arrive and everyone enjoyed the yummy treats and cuddles with their special people in their lives. Children sang them a beautiful song and presented their Read more…
Children had so much fun on world book day! Their favourite activities included Super Potato messy veg tray where they acted out the story and made the veggies come alive giving them faces!! Children loved the house with figures in from different tales, acting out the stories. Mrs. Bannon had Read more…
