It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Christmas festivities are well underway in reception. We especially enjoyed our Christmas dinner yesterday. ☺️
Seasons and Celebrations!
We have made an excellent start to our new topic this week; Seasons and Celebrations! We shared our experiences of bonfire night and talked about the sounds, sights and smells during the celebrations. We learnt a little bit about Guy Fawkes and who he was. We discussed how he is a British…
Reception Room on the Broom Day
Don’t we all look brilliant in our costumes?! We have had a very busy and exciting day today. We have made potions, spells and magic wands. We also wrote our own spooky spells and enjoyed finding rhyming words in the yucky goblin snot rhyming pot! We listened well to the story of Room on the…
Our Community Helpers!
In reception, we have talked lots about the people in our community who can help us. We have had visits from April, who works for the police and Mark and crew from the fire service. They all told us about their jobs and how they help people. They showed us their special uniforms, their equipment…
Paramedics Jamie and Mike Visit Reception!
Today we were visited by Mike and Jamie who are paramedics. They told us about how they help people. We looked around their ambulance and they showed us the special equipment they use to help make people better. We listened to the loud sirens and talked about what we should do in an emergency.…
Grimsby Town Football Coaching
We definitely have some future football superstars here at Springfield! Shane from Grimsby Town coaching was so impressed with the listening and attention skills demonstrated by the children. They took part in lots of exciting games and activities to improve their control, coordination and…
Animals UK Visit
What a fantastic way to finish off our Minibeasts topic! Laura from Animals UK introduced us to some of her creepy crawly friends including an African millipede, a stick insect and Charlotte the tarantula. Laura told us lots of interesting facts about the animals and we also got to look at them…
Yucky Worms!
After reading Yucky Worms! By Vivian French, we made our own wormery. We had great fun and we are enjoying watching them work.
Fairytales Science!
To celebrate British Science Week, we have been investigating materials. We pretended to be the Big Bad Wolf to test the strength of different materials. We made predictions about which we thought would be the strongest materials. We then tried to blow away bricks, pom poms, chocolate, paper, wood…
World Book Day 2022
We have had such a brilliant World Book Day! We have loved dressing up, listening to different fairytales and making bookmarks.
Pancake Day
We’ve had so much fun celebrating Pancake Day today! We enjoyed reading the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes and spotted some characters from the fairytales we have been reading. We helped Mr Wolf to write his shopping list and then followed the recipe to make our own pancakes. We chose our own toppings…
Tricky Troll Word Work
We have been practising our tricky troll words in lots of different ways. We spotted them in some books, played games, used flash cards and practised writing them without peeking! We are doing brilliantly!