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…
This week on our last week of around the world, we have learnt all about a England, we have talked about London landmarks, looked at the countries of the UK and discussed the food we eat and our climate. Today we finished our topic with a great British street party, Read more…
We have had so much fun this week and done some amazing exploring and investigating! This week during our around the world topic, we visited India, we answered the register by saying Namasté, had an Indian sweet shop in the playdough area, made rangoli patterns, designs our own mendhi patterns Read more…
This week we have been learning all about France, we started by listening to the story ‘A walk in Paris’ which showed us some famous Paris landmarks – The children have had some fantastic recall when telling us what they might see if they visited Paris, they could become tour Read more…