Reception Learning Summer 1- Week 3

       

                                            RECEPTION LEARNING - SUMMER 1 WEEK 3

Maths 

In maths, the children have been exploring Spatial Reasoning. Spatial reasoning is the ability to think about objects in both two and three dimensions, and visualise movement of those objects or deduce patterns between them. The children's activity was to copy the way a range of shapes had been arranged. It was fantastic to see the children work hard to create exactly what they had seen. Well done Reception. 

Key Vocabulary: shapes, move, rotate, left, right, triangle, square.

Bentley- “I moved the triangle”

Roza- “Two triangles”

Miya-Rose “My one looks like your one” 

Livai “It looks like an arrow”

Alexandra: "I made two houses"

Araoluwa: "I made a smiley face (*giggles*)"

Literacy

   

This week, we started reading Tadpoles promise. This is a story about This book is about a tadpole who meets a beautiful caterpillar and they fall in love with each other. The shiny black tadpole promised the rainbow caterpillar that he would never change but that was not a promise he could keep.

Soon the tadpole changed. He grew two legs and then he developed two arms. His tail vanished and he became a frog. The butterfly could not recognise him. She cried herself to sleep because she was so upset. Surprisingly, she changed too… into a magnificent butterfly! Then something you would never expect happened. The frog leapt out the water and ate the beautiful Butterfly. 

Our literacy task this week involved perspective writing as if the children were the Caterpillar and Butterfly. We spoke in class discussions about how the children would feel if they were the characters in the story. 

Key Vocabulary: tadpole, froglet, frog, butterfly, willow

Elsie- “The butterfly will fly away”

Ambica- “The frog will eat her”

 

Zarrar- “The butterfly said please doesn’t eat me” 

Sophia-“ The frog is waiting for the butterfly”

Darcey:  "The butterfly says...I love you tadpole"

Iustin: "I think the butterfly will miss the tadpole"

Pond Visit!

This week, we visited our very own Broadford Pond! The children were lucky enough to see tadpoles swimming around as well as a range of plants, bugs and rocks. We managed to capture some tadpoles with a net, added water to a tank and now we are tracking our tadpoles as they go through their life cycle. We have seen one change into a Froglet so we better put them back in the pond soon otherwise we all know what will be bouncing around next....... FROGS!!

Huy- "FROGGGGGG"

Aisosa- " Look at all the Tadpole"

Kai: "The tadpoles are so fast"

Isabelle: "I like coming down to the pond"

Zofia: "Look, LOOK!... oh my god it actually real tadpoles"

Jace: "Can you see that tadpole over there, Jimmy?"