Year Reception: What We Are Learning 17.04.26

 

Year Reception: What We Are Learning 

This term our topic is Plants and Growth. Our focus book this week was Jasper’s Beanstalk.

It has been an incredibly busy week of discovery in Reception! From the intricacy of planting a bean to the heavy lifting of water across the playground, the children have been diving deep into nature, mathematics, and engineering.

Here is a look at what we’ve been up to:

After learning where seeds and beans come from, each child planted their own runner bean this week.

We discussed what a plant needs to stay happy: Water (but not too much!), Light (Sun), Space to grow

We’ve placed our plannted beans on the windowsill so we can watch the "magic" happen underground as the roots begin to push out.

The children have been 'seed detectives', exploring a variety of fruits to see where they hide their seeds. they have practised using scientific words such as core, flesh and pip.

In our maths sessions, children have been exploring repeated patterns. Creating these patterns help the children to develop logic and reasoning skills that are the foundations for coding later on!

The children had great fun using the pulleys to transport water this week. Reaching up and pulling down builds the muscles in the shoulders and upper back. To pull a heavy load, children must plant their feet and engage their abdominal muscles to maintain balance, preventing them from being pulled toward the chain.

Reception Fairy Tale Dress Up Day

 Fairy Tale dress up day

Dear Parents and Carers,

As part of our topic this term, we will be incorporating a ‘Fairy Tale day,’ where your child can come to school dressed as their favourite character. This will only be for Reception class children and will take place on Friday 14th February. 

Some suggestions are: Little Red Riding Hood, a wolf, Goldilocks, a prince, Peter Pan, Cinderella, the Gingerbread Man, Aladdin, Tiana, Snow White.

Your child will not need school uniform on this day, however, we do suggest bringing in jumpers and coats as the children will be outside during parts of the day. Please remember to send your child in sensible and enclosed shoes.

Thank you.

 

Mrs Marie​

Reception Year Group Leader

Nursery Learning 24.02.24

Nursery Learning 24.02.24

This week we have been reading 'The Tiger who came to tea'. The children enjoyed reading all about the greedy tiger and have been using their tiger masks to re-enact gobbling all the food in Nursery!

In the Art area the children have been inspired by tiger pictures to create their own drawings and pictures. Some children chose to practice their mark making skills and some chose to practice cutting and create some great stripy tigers. 

As it was pancake day this week we have made our own delicious pancakes. The children had to carefully mash a banana with a fork, they then added oats and stirred in an egg. There were lots of opportunities for turn taking and counting in order to 10 in this activity. The children enjoyed watching as the pancakes cooked and were very eager to gobble them up like the hungry tiger at the end. 

As it was a rainy day we added some power paint to the puddles outside. The children used small brooms to sweep and spread the paint. They had to use their shoulder and elbow joints to control the brooms and create their own marks outside. 

In our small group sessions we have been focusing on phonological awareness, these are skills that are required to help the children to achieve later reading success. This week we have been busy listening for the sounds the animals start with and clapping the correct amount of syllables for each animal name. 

Look at our 2 year olds working together in the building area. After working with their key worker, Mrs Ngenge, they then independently chose to recreate the building and make it even taller! They were very proud of what they had made! 

There's never a quiet day in the nursery garden! As well as exploring the nature and water, it's a great environment to support the children's physical development. Today was bike races. The children were trying out the different bikes to see if they could decide on which was the fastest. They had lots of fun doing this and they all decided that the blue balance bike was the fastest! 

Have a fabulous weekend!

The Nursery Team 

Nursery - Ideas for Snow Fun

 

Nursery - Snow Fun

Good Morning Nursery,

We hope you are enjoying the snow! Here are a few outdoor/indoor activities you could try.

1. Spray the snow - If you have an empty spray bottle add some water and food coloring and you can create your own Winter masterpieces by spraying the snow!

2. Add some diggers and people to the snow, you could even dig out some roads for your town. Or you could bring some snow inside and make a little snowy scene in a tray/pan.

3. Stack the snow balls! Could could count how many you can put on top of each other or you could line them up and make a snow caterpillar.

And when you are finished playing outside you could warm up inside and listen to the story of Elmer in the Snow. Have a lovely day.

Elmer in the snow