Reception busy times in spring!

21st March 2025K Richardson

Reception have been showing off their independent reading, writing and maths skills. We have been reading words, hunting for them outside and writing sentences. We are using skittles, counters and objects to investigate number bonds of 10. We have decorated pots and then sprinkled cress seeds in to make cress heads. We talked about what the seeds need so that they will grow. We have some new additions to Reception. Everyone was so excited to see the frogspawn. We will be investigating how they change, grow and how we can look after them.

 

Stepping back in time, pancakes and pizza, a busy Reception week!

6th March 2025K Richardson

What a fabulous week! We have played guess who with the baby photos using our time language. Had races to see how fast we can pick up items or run in a set amount of time. We made the most amazing play dough pancakes our story in Drawing Club was ‘The Little Red Hen’ we also read ‘The Little Red Hen Makes Pizza’. We decided to make our own pizzas. The children chose their toppings and then sat with their friends to eat their delicious creations ❤️

Art in the style of Cesar Manrique.

21st February 2025N Sikka

1 Red have been looking at the Artist Cesar Manrique in Learning Means the World. Cesar was a famous artist, architect, designer and developer in Lanzarote. One of the things he was famous for was looking after his community and building and designing wind turbines. The children designed their own miniature wind turbines then actually used their design and technology skills to make their own pinwheels.

A busy last 2 weeks in Reception!

21st February 2025K Richardson

Wow, what a busy time Reception have had.  We have been looking at the Emergency Services and how they help us.  The children have been full emersed and are ready to join when they are older!  We have been using the story Three Billy Goats in Drawing Club and the children have loved creating bridges, recreating the story and writing sentences about the story.  We have also been measuring our hands and feet.  A fabulous couple of weeks!

 

Technology for a Pirate

21st February 2025L Chisholm

We are really enjoying our Land Ahoy theme but we encountered a problem! Our pirate only has one hand and there are lots of jobs to do on a ship. We designed a remote control to help him with his daily tasks and we added a variety of buttons for weather reports, kidstube, loud speaker (to shout at the crew).  We also made it water proof because as you know pirates spend most of their time voyaging around the seas.

Marvelous Monet!

4th February 2025L Chisholm

We have been looking at the impressionist painter Claude Monet.  We loved his use of colour and shades in ‘The Waves’.  We made a graduated colour chart to show the different blues we could make and then we tried our best to recreate the famous picture.