The reception children already knew a lot about our eight legged friends but through non-fiction books, e-books and websites lots of new interesting information has been learnt. We also looked at stories and rhymes about spiders. Our art and technology work was centred on spiders and their webs but very few are finished. Pictures of … Read more
After an interesting ‘Show and Tell’ last Friday the reception children already knew lots of facts about snails. A non-fiction Usborne text entitled ‘Snails’ added to the children’s knowledge and they all wrote some interesting facts for their writing in class. Story recall of ‘Odo the Snail’ was the best writing of the week with … Read more
In class this week the children have been learning about butterflies ready for the first week back after half term when we will receive our Painted Lady caterpillars and watch them grow and change into butterflies. We have read some great stories about butterflies from the classic Hungry Caterpillar to the tragic tale of Tadpole’s … Read more
The frog theme continued for a second week and was central to many of our lessons. This week fictional stories about frogs dominated our literacy lessons culminating in the children’s first attempts at story writing. You will be able to read these tonight. For homework writing next week we would like the children to write … Read more
The reception children started the summer term on Tuesday full of stories of what they had done in the Easter holidays! Lunch time was an opportunity to try out the new play apparatus and go on the field for the first time. We have started our work on life cycles and living things. The frogspawn … Read more
This has been a busy four days learning about the celebrations associated with Easter. The children heard the Easter story and watched a cartoon version from a BBC dvd. Then they made a book showing the main events in the Easter story. In the afternoon they looked at different artists interpretations of the Easter story … Read more
With four days left of this term the children in reception finished their work on houses by looking at the picture by Van Gogh of his bedroom at Arles. Using their sketches and photos from last week’s ‘Show and Tell’ they attempted to paint a picture of their own bedrooms. Having joined the RSPB ‘Wildsquare’ … Read more
With the theme of houses well underway, the wall hanging of ‘Our Houses’ went up in the classroom for all to see. The clay houses were painted, the children painted a picture of their own house and the children went for a walk down Benslow Lane to look at the different types of houses. That … Read more
With our topic of houses well under way, this week saw the children using the sketches of their houses to make their clay house and a fabric hanging for the classroom. The children also discussed the types of houses they live in and talked about their house in Show and Tell. The challenge for next … Read more
In preparation for World Book Day the children bought in their favourite book to share with the class. We sorted our books into two sets, fiction and non -fiction. We discussed the authors, publishers, the illustrations on the front covers and how the tittles had been written. The children then tried to draw the cover … Read more
