This week we have been reading the story ‘The Gruffalo’s child’, we identified the characters in the story and we worked together to Fred talk the sounds. During choosing time we have been able to create our own footprints using paint and played with our very own Gruffalo crumble. We Read more
In history, we have been leaving about Christopher Columbus. We had to ‘explore’ the playground to find out facts about his life. We had to search for pictures of his ship to help answer questions. We worked really well together to find all of the answers.
We have really enjoyed our last week in Reception and have had lots of fun. We went on a scavenger hunt to see if we could find our friend’s faces and ticked them off our list. We have been learning about bees so we decorated our own bee biscuits to take Read more
This week was our final forest school and we had such a lovely day. We looked at the story ‘The King of tiny things’, about a little fairy who helps all minibeasts and creatures around the forest; he oiled a slug who had lost his slime, freed a caterpillar that Read more
This week we have been looking at the story ‘Mad about Minibeasts!’ And have had so much fun investigating different minibeasts. In forest school, we went on a minibeast hunt, checking to see if any had visited the bug hotels we had made the previous week and made our favourite Read more
In Reception, we have been learning about ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We have learnt how to retell the story and the life cycle of a butterfly. During the story, the caterpillar eats lots of fruit. So we decided to taste test different fruits and see which ones we prefer. Once Read more
This week we we had so much fun in forest school! As we are learning about mini beasts and life cycles this term, we decided to link this with our forest school session. We did so well at remembering all of the rules and explained why we need rules – Read more
This week we have been reading the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’, we found out that the little pigs made houses from straw, sticks and bricks. The big bad wolf 🐺 came and tried to blow down the houses but the brick house would not budge. We completed writing based around Read more
This week we have looked further at the story of Jack and the beanstalk; we have retold the story using masks and the giant beanstalk that Miss Horrocks made, made our own with bricks, made houses and villages to protect the people from the giant, ordered numbers and then told Read more
What a busy week!! This week we have been reading the story of Jack and the beanstalk, we have decided to do an experiment where we grow 2 beanstalks, one in a pot with soil and one in a bag with just a wet cotton wool ball, we then voted Read more