March 2022
Reception had such a busy month in March!
In Literacy we looked at the stories Jaspers Beanstalk and The Tiny Seed to help us learn about what seeds and plants need in order to grow. We wrote sentences about the life cycle of seeds using our phonic knowledge. We read the poems in the book Mad about minibeasts and talked about what our favourite minibeasts are and why, practicing to listen and respond to what others were saying.
In Maths we are getting really clever working with numbers to 10, ordering numbers to 10, forming our numbers to 10 spotting patterns in number bonds to 10.
In our topic work we have looked at the changing season as we enter spring, what changes can we see, hear, feel and smell? we have planted cress seeds and watched them grow. We planted bean seeds in bags so that we could watch the roots and shoots develop.
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!
