The Drawing Club!
This week in our literacy work, the children have joined the Drawing Club! Our Drawing Club has been based on the book ‘The Christmas Pine’ and the aim is to spark the children’s imagination and develop language through creating “magic codes” like letters or words into their drawings. First we…
Sharing our Home School Diaries
The week we have been reading the Christmas Pine. The book tells the story of a Norwegian pine tree chosen to be the annual Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. The story’s meaning symbolises peace and friendship as the tree is a gift from Norway to the UK. This week the children designed their own…
Bonfire night
Our home school diary task this week was to talk about bonfire night and what we did to celebrate. We then thought about the fireworks we saw in the sky and created our own firework pictures. First we selected different colours and mixed them together, we then used a sponge to print the paint on…
Maths, maths and more maths
Maths happens everywhere in Reception. Here we are exploring quantities and making number blocks using multilink in the garden.
Autumnal observational drawing
This week the children have been practising their observational drawing. We have used a selection of autumnal leaves and pumpkins of different colours, textures and size to carefully draw what we can see. We have talked about looking closely for details and discussed the autumnal colours we could…
Pumpkin fine motor
After lots of discussion and interest about pumpkins over the last few weeks, the children have been using pumpkins to put their fine motor skills to the test! We have used hammers to carefully hammer golf tees into pumpkins!
Reception Rock Stars
What fabulous costumes. The children have loved dressing up as rock stars today. We have had a parade and danced to some of our favourite tunes! Well done to everyone for taking part.
Poem performance
It has been poetry week in Reception! After listening to various poems about minibeasts we then set to work to write our own class poem! As a team, we wrote our very own poem packed with rhyming words! We then thought of actions to go with each line. Reception then performed their poem to Nursery…
A busy morning in Reception.
It may be a rainy day but we are always busy in reception!
Minibeasts
As part of our poetry week, we have been reading lots of poems about minibeasts. We have explored new vocabulary, where we might find minibeasts and what equipment might help us to find them! We then, in small groups, used all our knowledge to find minibeasts in our garden area. So far, we have…
Fine Motor
In Reception we take every opportunity to practise our fine motor skills. This week we have been using Geo Boards and elastic bands.
Leaf man!
After listening to the story ‘Leaf Man’, we used our Autumn collection to create our very own Leaf Men! What brilliant creations!