Blog by Tag: Reception

The children are meeting lots of new people and playing games together to learn each others names.  

Enjoying our day in Reception !

Just a snapshot of the children exploring all our classrooms have to offer.  Don’t worry if you cannot find your child. We will be posting lots over the coming weeks. 

This week we have been revisiting patterns in class.  We have been making patterns and deciding what the repeat is for each pattern.. The children then went into provision and then made their own patterns.  

We are enjoying our special time spent together each day in prayer.  The children choose items to set up a focus area before we spend time together. 

Today we received a letter from some very evil peas who were on the loose in our classrooms.  We decided to design a trap to catch them and asked the children to come up with their own ideas and to make them in the classroom.  The children loved this activity and rushed to provision to have a go…

Today we practised for our sports day.  The children had lots of fun taking part in all the races.  Let’s pray the weather is kind to us next week when we all take part for real!

We have been using vegetable to explore texture and print this week.  The children have mixed colours and appparatus to create their own pictures using vegetables to print from. 

Our new book for this half term is ‘Supertato’. The children have already enjoyed freeing some naughty peas from ice! We are expecting chaos to ensue!! 

This week we have read the book ‘The Doorbell Rang’ we related it to sharing biscuits.  The children were really good at making sure that they shared the biscuits fairly!!  

We have had a special arrival in Reception! We were welcomed back from the half term break to caterpillars in our classroom! We have talked about the life cycle of a butterfly and even watched a time lapse of the process! We have just loved checking in on our own caterpillars each day, two have…

This week we have been talking about how to keep ourselves healthy.  We discussed ways of exercising and healthy foods to eat.  We then chopped up fruit to make a spectacular fruit salad.  The children loved doing this but found the pineapple quite tricky to cut up.