Year Reception: What We Are Learning
This term our topic is Plants and Growth. Our focus book this week was Tadpole’s Promise.
Here is what we have been up to:
During our water play we sang Five little speckled frogs and a range of other nursery rhymes. This supported the children’s communication and language development,as they joined in with familiar words and actions, as well as their expressive arts and design through music and movement.
We have been looking after our bean plants with great care and observing them with much curiosity.Some of the children’s beans have already developed stems and leaves- how exciting!
This week we learnt all about the life cycle of a frog. We visited the school pond for the second time,where the tadpoles are growing beautifully.The children enjoyed observing them as they swam and discussed the different stages of the life cycle using new vocabulary such as frogspawn, tadpoles and froglets,which they learned during their topic lessons this week.
In Literacy we recapped our red words the,a,I,of,he,go,to,my,was,you,we,they,she and remembered that sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop. This week we learnt how to write the red word ‘have’. We wrote the features of a frog.
Please continue to read 5 times a week with your children and work on set 1,2 or 3 sounds as well as word time words (1.5, 1.6, 1.7 etc).
In Maths this week the children have been exploring verbal counting patterns beyond 20.They completed a range of activities to support their learning and understanding, including identyfing mystery numbers, playing “pass then number ball”, and taking turns to count up to 20.
Well done Reception for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work!
