Remembrance Day
We decorated Poppies to show our respect for Remembrance Day. We took part in a minutes silence and watched a video to help us understand the emotions that people may have felt.
Our New Role Play Area
We had a new role play area that we have loved exploring. We have used our personal experiences to take part in ‘shopping’. We are learning new vocabulary, how to create narratives with friends and lots of social skills.
Planting Bulbs
This week we have been helping our environmental parliament to make our school ground bloom. We planted lots of daffodils around the school and can’t wait to see them grow.
Planting bulbs!
This morning we spent some time planting bulbs around the school environment. The children learnt about the parts of a bulb and how to plant a bulb. They took it in turns to dig the mud before each planting a bulb and covering it over. We then discussed when we can expect to see the bulbs grow…
Book talk! Features of a book
Today in book talk we recapped the features of a book to ensure the children are fully secure with this. We discussed the title, author, illustrator, spine and blurb. The children could tell me why these features are needed and where they are located on a book.
We’re going on a shape hunt!
Today the children used their knowledge of circles and triangles to hunt for shapes in the outdoor area. They quickly spotted lots of circles but had to search harder to spot the triangles. We are shape detectives in reception!
Learning about celebrations
Today we began our topic of celebrations. We looked at what some different types of celebrations are and the children spent time discussing the celebrations they took part in. We then identified which pictures taken at various celebrations fit with the ones they celebrate eg if they celebrate…
Using all Our Senses in Forest School
This week we have been learning all about Autumn. We took part in our first Forest School session with Autumn activities.
We enjoyed leaf threading, mud painting, collaging with natural materials and pumpkin cutting.
We talked about our sea sea and used them for hands on…
Peace at last!
We have read and roleplayed the story Peace at Last by Jill Murphy to help us to understand the events and structure.
Features of a fiction and non-fiction book
In book talk we discussed the different features of fiction and non-fiction books. We learnt that a fiction book is a story and is made up using the authors imagination and a non fiction book contains facts and real life information. We explored the contents page and glossary of non-fiction books…
Signs of Autumn- an autumn walk
Today we looked at the signs of autumn and how we know the seasons are changing. We then went out and looked at the signs of autumn around our school. We saw brown and orange leaves, berries growing on the trees and also discussed the weather.
Are We All the Same?
Today we used the mirrors to talk about the different features we have. We identified what we looked like such as the colour of our hair, skin and eyes.
We then looked at our partner and discussed what similarities we have, and what differences we have.
We have learnt we all have the similar…