Remembrance Day
We remembered the soldiers who died for us. We all made a poppy to put in the window. We observed the two minutes silence by watching the CBeebies ‘Poppies”.
Rosie’s Spectacular Lightbox House
After reading the story of ‘The Three Little Pig's’ Rosie used the lightbox to make her own house. We love the colours that shine through on the box.
Subitising in Reception
This week in Reception we have been using our ‘maths eyes’ to look at small groups of objects and say, without counting, how many there are! The children have loved playing games to subitse.
The Three Little Pigs
To introduce our new book, The Three Little Pigs, the children were shocked to discover someone had made a terrible mess in our classroom! The suspect left footprints and left lots of straw and sticks laying around! We came up with a plan about who had committed such terrible crimes, we thought it…
Bug Hunting!
The children have loved hunting for bugs in the garden this week. After reading poems about mini-beasts we all searched the garden for their secret hiding places to see what we could find. Harry was especially keen and helped lots of the children on their search. ‘I know all the good hiding…
Patterns
This week we have investigated patterns in class. The children loved making their own simple patterns using our every day resources.
Superstars
Today we celebrated some achievements in Reception. For swimming, gymnastics and football skills. What a talented bunch!
Summer Reading Challenge
Congratulations to all of the children who completed the Summer Reading Challenge at the library this year.
Length
This week for maths we have been exploring length.
We looked objects that were long and short and then went into the classroom and found other objects to compare.
Reception Orienteering
This Monday we were lucky to take part in a class orienteering activity.
The children were split into groups and tasked with finding various animals around the site.
The weather was kind and we all had a great time searching for the animals and remembering them.
Esme won our kindest…