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18 October 2024

Family Picture Frames

Last week we drew pictures of our families, this week we have been decorating picture frames to put our drawings in.

The children have explored new tools and materials and learnt how to use them such as scissor skills, bingo dabblers, collaging tissue paper and glitter. 
They have chosen what…

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18 October 2024

Our Favourite Books

We have chosen some of our favourite books to read in nursery. We talked about what we like about them, characters and key events in the story. 
pit was lovely to hear the children recalling the stories and discussing their interests with friends. 

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17 October 2024

This is the bear…

We have had a walk to the local park and taken the bear with us. We had lots of fun and so did the bear! When we got back to School, we realised that we had left the bear at the park! Oh no! 

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16 October 2024

Role playing the story ‘Whatever next!’

Today we reread the story ‘Whatever Next!’. We recapped the features of a book including the title and the blurb and then used props and character masks to act out different parts of the story. We considered how the characters would have been feeling and thinking. 

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15 October 2024

Representing numbers within 3!

Today in maths we have been representing numbers within 3! We are super mathematicians in reception.

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11 October 2024

Fine Motor Skills

This week we enjoyed the play dough. We used our fine motor skills to manipulate the dough to make different features of our face. We then talked about our families and the children started to make their family members. 
We discussed is everyone the same? What makes us different? Is it ok to be…

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11 October 2024

Number Blocks

Today we worked in groups to make number blocks! We recapped the numbers 0 and 1, and incorporated our new number 2. The children did super and they can all recognise numbers 0,1 and are recognising 2 with little support.

We worked together to count out cubes and make up numbers within 2, we…

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11 October 2024

My Family

This week we have been learning all about our families. Who is in our family?
We drew pictures from memory and with the support of some images from home of who is part of our family. 
We learnt everybody’s family is different. 

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11 October 2024

Story sequencing- whatever next!

The children used the pictures from the story Whatever next! to sequence the story from beginning to end. They used words like beginning, middle and end and characters. We really focused on the story and retelling it in our own words once we had sequenced it correctly. 

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4 October 2024

Our Emotions

This week we have been learning about our emotions through the story ‘The Colour Monster’. We enjoyed reading the story and hearing about the different emotions we may feel. We talked about what things may make us feel a type of way and how we express our feelings. 

We have took part in lots of…

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4 October 2024

What Can you Hear?

We have been exploring our different senses each week. This week we focused on our hearing. As a group we listened to potential sounds we would hear inside and outside. We loved guessing the sounds. We then went on a sound walk to see what we could hear. 


We explored squishing and stamping on…

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4 October 2024

Jumping and Hoping!

In PE this week we have been recapping the different movements we learnt last week. We took part in ‘Sticky kids - Let’s go walking’. We had to listen to the song and then move through walking, jogging, marching, galloping and on our tip-toes. The children loved this.

We then moved on to…

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