This week we have been reading The Gingerbread Man in our literacy lessons. We have learnt how to retell the story and we have been designing our own gingerbread person. The children used coloured icing pens to help with their fine motor skills and chose the decorations carefully. They had Read more…
This week we have been looking at Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This afternoon we have been taste testing different flavours of porridge. We discussed which flavours and toppings Goldilocks would like and then we tried the different ones for ourself. We tried plain porridge, porridge with jam, porridge with Read more…
This morning we have discussed why we are wearing yellow and blue today. We talked sensitively about the situation in Ukraine and how we should show love and kindness to others. The children then made Ukrainian flags and waved them in support.
This week, we have celebrated Easter and learnt about the Easter story and Palm Sunday. Yesterday we were very busy on an Easter hunt. Everyone had an Easter hunt checklist and we had to find the objects around the Reception area. We found lots of Easter pictures around our classroom, Read more…
This week we have been learning about Italy. We found out about Italian food and drink, landmarks, facts about the country and we even spoke some Italian! The children learnt how to say hello and goodbye, the names of numbers and colours and simple phrases such as “how are you?” Read more…
Today we have celebrated The Festival of Colours (Holi Festival). We have had so much fun! We started the day by listening to the story behind the Holi Festival. We then experimented with paint mixing and crushing flowers to see what colour mark they would make on big paper. In Read more…
This morning in forest school the children used crayons and paper to take rubbings from different trees. They looked closely at the different patterns and textures. Then the children planted the national flower of Ukraine (a sunflower) in support of Ukrainian people at such a hard time. The children came Read more…
This week we have been learning about South Africa. Our focus book has been Handa’s Surprise. In Literacy, we have worked as a class to act out the story of ‘Handa’s Surprise’. The children used masks to act as the animals, taking the fruits from Handa’s basket in the correct Read more…
This week in Music, Miss Taylor taught the children some songs in French. We sang head, shoulders, knees and toes and Frere Jacques in French and English. We then listened to the elephant and aquarium songs from the Carnival of The Animals written by French musician Camille Saint-Saëns. We stomped Read more…
Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day. We all dressed up in fantastic costumes to celebrate our favourite characters. We read lots of stories and talked about why we love having stories read to us. A big well done to Bobby who won the prize for best costume in Snowdrops!