This week Reception have looked at the story ‘Dear Zoo’, The children made actions to go with the story and can retell the story really well. We explored the different zoo animals and found out information from books. This week some children made puppets to act out their own stories with – lots of children made fairies and told great fairy stories! We have also been preparing for Mother’s Day. We made cards and did a special assembly for them. Thank you for all the mom’s that attended today. We hope you enjoyed it.

This week, Reception have been learning all about how to be healthy. We read the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and discussed whether the food he ate was healthy.  We have also learnt about the days of the week, singing lots  of songs to help us remember them. The children have also been doing some fantastic writing! They have been independently writing  stories about superheros, power rangers and frozen!  The children have then read them out to their class and chosen characters to act them out.

Here are some pictures from our week:

Today as part of Book Week, Reception had the opportunity to share their favourite books with some children from Year 5. The children really enjoyed talking about their books and listening to Year 5 read to them. We were very lucky to have Mrs Hall read a story to all of us. Reception then shared the Sally Grindley book ‘Shh!’ that we had been looking at this week to year 5.

Over the week, we explored Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated. We learnt about the different things people do to celebrate and read the story of ‘The Great Race’. We discussed the order of the animals and how they got each year named after them. On Friday, we enjoyed some delicious noodles and prawn crackers. The children had a good go at eating with chopsticks.

This week in Reception we received a letter from the little old lady asking us to look after the Gingerbread Man whilst she was on holiday. We tried our best but he just keep on running away from us shouting “run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!”. We decided to make missing posters to spread the news that he had ran away. Luckily, we found him on Friday and he brought us some delicious treats to say sorry for running away.

This afternoon, Reception were very pleased and excited to have their parents visit them in their class. The children carried out a variety of activities including making Christmas cards, counting Christmas objects, colouring in, and painting their salt dough tree decorations. We had lots of fun and would like to thank those parents that joined us.

On Friday, Reception were lucky enough to visit Ash End House Farm. The children really enjoyed their visit and learn lots of new things. We saw lots of different farm animals which we got to feed and hold. However, the most exciting part of our day was meeting Santa and his reindeer. The children each had a photo with Santa and received a present. After a busy morning the children went into the play area and did lots of bouncing on the bouncy pillow!

This week, the children have been talking about what they would like for Christmas. They have been writing lists and posting them ready to send off to Santa. Next week we will be visiting Ash End Farm where we hope to see Santa and his reindeer! We have also been learning songs for our nativity which is on 13th December at 9.15am.

This week, Reception held a phonics meeting for parents. We were really happy that lots of parents came to join us and were very engaged. We hope that it was beneficial and that it will help your child enjoy reading as much as we do!

Thanks again to all those that attended.

On Tuesday, Reception went on a trip to Sutton Park. We have been learning all about autumn and noticing the changes that occur. During our trip, we explored different areas of the park looking out for autumn things. We collected different coloured leaves, pine cones, sticks, conkers and much more! We did an activity where we matched up colours and objects. The children had a fantastic time and can’t wait for the next trip!