We continued to look at different celebrations this half-term. We learnt about Bonfire Night, Diwali and Christmas! We took our first trip to Happy Street to do our Christmas shopping together and had lots of fun. We enjoyed acting out the story of the first Christmas and made our own Christingles. We also learnt about Remembrance Day. We explored the differences between light and dark, learnt about nocturnal animals and did shadow puppet shows for each other. In maths, we’ve started to learn our number bonds to 5 and to recognise and write numbers up to 10! We have had a great first term together, keep up the hard work Reception!
Welcome to the lively world of our Reception class! This week, we delved into the importance of keeping our teeth clean and healthy, exploring the wonders of our brilliant bodies. Excitement filled the air as we selected our first library books of the year, fostering a love for reading.
Outdoor adventures took us on a hunt for items starting with the sounds we’ve learned, enhancing our phonetic journey. Writing milestones were achieved as we crafted our very first sentences, ensuring clarity with finger spaces. Mathematical concepts came alive as we used ten frames to represent numbers.
Dreaming big, we pondered future aspirations, discussing hobbies and skills for our dream jobs. Exploring global traditions, we celebrated birthdays around the world, indulging in role-playing parties and embracing diverse customs. As Halloween approaches, we weighed pumpkins and danced our way into the festive spirit with a Halloween Disco. Stay tuned for more joyous updates from our vibrant Reception class!
Reception had such a busy month in March!
Reception have had a really busy month!
We have looked at the different types of birds we get in the garden and have got creative making our own birds.
We have found out all about earth worms, what they need in their habitat in order to survive and what they do. We have then made our own wormery! We have enjoyed listening to the story Superworm and making our own Superworm’s!
In maths we are getting more confident with our numbers, thinking about representing numbers in different ways along with getting use to the concept of time and hoe long things take to do.
In Literacy we are using all of our new sounds in our writing, having a go at making up sentences in order to write them, thinking about using a capital letter, finger spaces and full stops.
We are getting so clever!
Reception have had a busy November! When we came back from half term, Reception were very excited about Bonfire night. We looked at videos of fireworks and made our own firework pictures and did a science experiment to make an exploding sky. Reception are getting very clever at writing words and had a go at writing words to describe the fireworks, writing the sounds they could hear in the words. Reception then moved on to looking at Diwali. We learnt about how Diwali is celebrated and how that is similar to how others celebrate special events and how the celebrations are different. We wrote job lists and made diva lamps. We retold the story of Rama and Sita and painted Rangoli pictures. Reception learnt about shapes and the properties of shapes and used their knowledge of shape to create and see shapes within shapes.
Reception have had a very busy month! We have been learning about Harvest. We read the story Oliver’s Vegetables and painted pictures of the vegetables as well as drawing a vegetable patch and labelling it. We taste tested some of the vegetables from the story-none of use liked the beetroot but lots of us enjoyed eating the spinach!
We also absolutely loved reading the story ‘The Runaway Pea’. We like to re-enact the story at lunch times with different vegetables when they fall from the table!
We also read the story ‘The Little Red Hen’ and followed a recipe to weigh out the ingredients to make our own delicious bread rolls.
Reception then moved onto learning about Halloween. We dressed up as different characters, made up spooky stories with the dolls house and made potions in the Witches Kitchen. We enjoyed listening to lots of the different Winnie the Witch stories. Winnie needed Reception’s help to design a new pair of tights using repeating patterns, she was so impressed that the next day she asked the Reception class to design her a new witch hat using trickier repeating patterns. We finished our Halloween theme with a Halloween party which was lots of fun, we got to go home and get changed then come back to school to play games and dance in our costumes.
What a busy month Reception!
Reception’s topic is celebrations. We celebrated starting school and met all the teachers when we had a walk around the school. We looked at how we got to school and what we passed in our local area when coming to school. We have then moved on to celebrating Kipper the dog’s birthday. We have looked at how people celebrate birthdays, what food they eat and what preparations we go through before a birthday celebration. Reception then wrote invitations, made lists for food, counted out objects for the party and did repeating patterns for decorations. Reception then made cakes and biscuits and sandwiches for Kippers birthday and came to school in our party clothes to celebrate Kippers birthday for our theme day. After the party we took a trip to China to see how they celebrate birthdays, thinking about the differences and similarities as well as looking at how a child in Africa celebrates a birthday, learning a traditional African song and dance. It has been a very busy month! I am so proud at how well Reception have settled into School and how hard they are working!
