In DT we are going to be designing and making a healthy smoothie. Over the last 2 weeks we have learnt lots about fruits and vegetables, how we know a food is a fruit and where fruits and vegetables grow. This week we focussed on preparation skills. We learnt how Read more…
In Science, we have been learning all about sound. We have learnt about the 5 senses, how sound travels, and how parts of our ear work. This week, we learnt about pitch. We first played a game where we listened to a sound and had tocolour pictures 2 different colours, Read more…
In computers we have been learning about events, objects, actions and commands, we put our skills and knowledge into practice by completing some challenges on purple mash. We had to make algorithms to move and pop bubbles on our screens, we then added events, such as; when clicked the bubble Read more…
This week, Reception were reading Stickman – we love Julia Donaldson stories and are so good at remembering the jobs of Authors and Illustrators, and what a title and blurb are. While reading stickman, we looked at the different seasons that we might see throughout the story and recognised signs Read more…
This week, we were reading the story of The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. We remembered that our last 2 stories were the same author, and even remembered her name. We did some lovely activities around the story: We wrote a list of the characters from the story, dressed as the Read more…
This week we have been reading the stories of ‘what the ladybird heard’ by Julia Donaldson. We are all getting very good at remembering the job of the author and illustrators of stories. This week, we have made ‘messy maps’ thinking about features we might see that we could add Read more…
This half term we are reading stories by Julia Donaldson, we have been discussing the roles of Authors and Illustrators and talked about the different stories that Julia Donaldson has written. This week we read Zog; we wrote about what Zog can do and what he looks like, we made Read more…
In Reception we looked at different festivals that are celebrated throughout the year and how they are celebrated. We learned about the hindu festival of light ‘Diwali’ and ‘bonfire night’, we compared how they are celebrated and completed some crafts around this. We made firework pictures, Diva lamps, Rangoli patterns, Read more…
This half term we have been doing all about animals and minibeasts. Last week we looked at ladybirds, we learnt about the life cycle of a ladybird and read some lovely stories. One of the stories that we read was ‘What the ladybird heard’, in the story, the bad guys Read more…
This week was arts week, we used material to make minibeasts with an artist, we listened to steps and instructions about how to make the minibeasts and did a fantastic job. We also discussed how art is not just about drawing/painting/making, it is how we express ourselves, we then did Read more…
