Blog Author: Emma Carrington

This week we have been exploring melting and freezing. We have learnt lots of new words like frozen, solid, liquid, melting and temperature. We used the freezer to freeze water then tried different ways to melt the ice. The warm water melted the ice the fastest. We also melted some chocolate using…

We watched a video about a little girl called Sophia who celebrated the Jewish festival of Hanukkah with her family. We learnt all about the traditions including decorations, candles, songs, games, prayers and food. We followed a recipe for latke (potato pancakes) and made them. The Jewish people…

We have been learning about different celebrations. We have talked about Bonfire night, birthdays and Diwali. Look at the wonderful diva lamps and rangoli patterns we have made! 
 

Don’t we look fantastic in our spooky costumes?! We enjoyed sharing the story Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. We looked at the rhyming words and made our own silly rhyming spells. We had lots of fun in the spooky sensory trays and play dough. We even wrote our own potion ingredients out and…

This week we have been looking at patterns in our environment, in nature and repeating patterns. We have made patterns using natural materials, objects around the classroom and even ourselves! We have made colour patterns, size patterns, shape patterns and patterns with actions. 

We’ve had such a busy few days in reception. We had lots of fun in our phonics lessons; improving our letter formation in different media, working on hearing initial sounds and reading words to find matching pairs. In maths, we have been comparing objects, quantities, heights and lengths. We have…

In reception we have been working on following instructions in P.E. We enjoyed playing games together with our new friends. We are improving at removing our shoes and socks and putting them back on again all by ourselves. We also practised our ball skills and using the hall space safely. 
 

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Wow! What a fantastic effort from all of the children today. They have given it their all and cheered on their friends brilliantly! Well done Reception! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
 

We are having lots of fun in reception getting ready for Christmas. We have been baking Christmas cookies, learning about why Christmas is a special time for Christians, taking part in lots of Christmas craft activities and we especially enjoyed our Polar Express day in our pyjamas. 

This week we have been discussing journeys we have been on and the places we travel. We have drawn the places that we go to on a map of our area. We enjoyed reading The Naughty Bus and have talked about the different ways that we can travel. We have been role-playing in our new red bus and using…

This week we have been learning to use positional language and follow positional language directions. We had fun playing the beanbag game. We listened carefully to the directions and placed the beanbags in the right positions. We then took turns to give and follow positional language instructions.…

Mr Plater visited us from Dinostar in Hull. He bought all kinds of amazing dinosaur fossils. He showed us a triceratops leg bone, an allosaurus skull, a tyrannosaurus tooth, a brachiosaurus claw and an allosaurus footprint. We made our own fossils and made fossil rubbings of plant and animal…