Week 4 dancing and planting

This week we have been continuing our Food theme looking at healthy and unhealthy foods. We have planted our beans and are watching them grow, making sure we look after them by watching them and giving them light.

We enjoyed our dance lesson; making different animal shapes and freezing into positions. We are getting much better at finding a space on our own and listening to instructions from another teacher. 

 

We have been planting trees this afternoon. We have had 300 to plant and Reception have taken part in digging, planting and looking after our new trees. It will be a pleasure to watch them grow on the big field over the years.

 

 

  

A busy week in Reception

We have had a busy week in Reception. Practising our subtraction skills in Maths, writing our Mothers Day poems and thinking about someone special in Literacy and PSED,  and painting beautiful daffodil pictures for our Mothers.

Happy Mothers Day to all our Reception Mothers for Sunday!
We hope you like your treats and have a fun day.

Celebrating World Book Day! 3rd March

Happy World Book day from Reception!



We have had such a fun day sharing our favourite books for World Book Day. Well done to all children who have dressed up as their favourite characters and brought in their favourite books. It is so interesting to hear about them and for you to explain the plot and characters. Well done! All children have gone home with individual photographs of themselves dressed up and a class photograph.

Celebrating SMSC week! 22nd February

This week we have been celebrating SMSC week. We have experienced the multi-cultural markets, Chinese New Year and looked at how we can respect each other and the environment. Here are a few pictures:

Yo ho ho a pirating we go!

Our Pirates on Fridays theme has been exciting! 

Lots of links to many aspects of our learning, including: Maths, Writing, Art, Imaginative play, physical (fine and gross) and Reading

Excellent effort and achievement!

Miss B:-)

We have enjoyed sharing this book and learning new rhymes. It has helped to build our vocabulary related to Pirates.

Being creative when using the dough and developing our fine motor skills and use of tools to shape, manipulate and improve control and coordination - important skills for our handwriting development.

A fantastic pirate, Laith!

Sami's 'walk the plank'

Hunting for treasure and jewels in the sand. Looking for coins and exploring colour, size, shape and measures. Using props to build imagination and talk for writing. Excellent ideas and use of language to pretend, make believe and communicate effectively with peers.

Maths Challenge time - using jewels and coins to solve problems and create number sentences.

Some of us tried really hard to use the pictures which represented different amounts to calculate the answer. We talked about how we figured out the answer and supported each other. Afterwards, we hunted outdoors for the treasure chests with the total amounts on them. Excellent effort, team work and mathematical thinking. Impressive!

Hunting outdoors and checking the numerals carefully.

Good effort!

Working together, explaining our working and challenging ourselves. Some of us had extra tricky number sentences too:-)

We have been learning about the different parts of a ship and drawing the ship carefully from observation.

We also practised our handwriting skills when labelling a picture of a ship.

Superb! We are amazing artists!

Come and see our fantastic Pirate Passports!

Here we are adding information to our passports ready to board our Pirate Ship during imaginative play indoors and outdoors.

Pirate PE session outside. Developing our listening skills and response to commands, e,g, walk the plank, climb the riggin, hoist the flag, scrub the deck, captain's coming!

Pirate photo booth and treasure island fun!

Watch this space!

Fairytales theme - Cinderella week

This week we have started our fairytales theme, looking at the story of Cinderella. We have listened to the story, sequenced the events in the story and written our own invitations for a party or ball. We have been very creative, developing our knowledge of shapes and made masks, swords, picture frames or mirrors.

In literacy we have been focusing on forming our letters correctly, writing our key words and beginning to make sentences with them. And in maths we have been consolidating our knowledge of 2D shapes and learning some new 3D shapes.

Mersey vales got talent week

This week we have been sharing our talents. We have been talking about what we are good at. We shared our talents in circle time -

Some children showed their best karate moves, explaining really well what karate is and what the coloured belts mean. 

Some children showed us their hopping skills and could hop for 25 hops.

Some children said they were creative and made a super fireworks model. Telling us in great detail how they made it and what it's for.

Some children showed us their lovely dance moves.

And their beautiful ballet moves.

We sang our favourite nursery rhymes.

And showed us their best swimming moves.