Expressive Arts and Design Chatter
Big cook, little cook
This morning, we have made our own sausage rolls! We brushed the milk onto the pastry, and rolled the sausage up! We can’t wait to eat them at snack time!
Chinese New Year
This morning, we have started our Chinese New Year Celebrations! We talked about all the special things that are done during this festival, and we found out the red is a special colour: it brings good luck! We used our fine motor skills to thread gold ribbon through our own red envelope and added a special coin 😋
Poetry performances
Today we performed poems that we have explored this week in our Ready Steady Comprehension sessions. We tried to use a range of expressive strategies to enhance our performance.
Our new sensory hideout!
We are so lucky to have been able to get a beautiful new sensory hideout! We noticed how the colours made beautiful patterns on the floor when the sun shone through 😍 ☀️
Tubes + cars = FUN 🤩
We’ve made our own car tracks and tunnels with some tubes and boxes today! We balanced the tubes on the furniture and drove our cars down to see how fast they could go! We had to work as a team.
Big Cook, Little Cook
Have a look at our ingredients…what do you think is on the menu today? We had to listen really carefully to Mrs Sefton as she told us the steps of the recipe…
Stay and Learn
Thank you to all our families who joined us for stay and learn this morning! It was a huge success and the children really love welcoming their families into their classroom. We made our own dough, made some porridge and tasted it just like Goldilocks, cutting and sticking, and fine motor activities. The children really enjoyed it and we hope you did too 🥰
Big cook, little cook
Today we made shortbread biscuits! We weighed the ingredients, and mixed them together. Once they were ready, we let them cool…but they didn’t last much longer than that! 😋
Celebrating our families
This week in reception we have been discussing our families! We drew pictures of our families and made paper chains to celebrate! Using our fine motor skills we were able to glue and stick to make the chain.
World Book Day
Reception have explored lots of books this week. We especially loved The Colour Monster and The Little Mermaid! We have been inspired creatively by our books. Look at our creations:
Science Week 👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🧫🔬🧬
Today we explored animals for science week! We looked at animals which live on farms. We also explored different wild animals and made our very own masks.
Spring 💐🌷🌻
Today Reception explored the parts of a flower!🌺 We have begun to look at how the season of spring is when plants and flowers start to grow and bloom after winter.
Art Week 🎨🖌️
For Art week reception have been exploring Spring animals. We used cotton wool, glue and paint to make a chick or a lamb.
Art Week 🎨🖌️
In reception we have been making our very own superhero’s for Art Week! We have used scissors, glue, card and sticks to make them.
Art Week!
This week for Art Week we made our very own superhero town. We had lots of fun using the water paints.
PJ day for Alder Hay
Today we wore our PJs for Alder Hay hospital. We know how much they help us!
ART Week 🎨🖌️
Reception created their own superhero city using; paint, card and glue. We were inspired by the book Juniper Jupiter!
Year 5 Art
5M are working hard to use primary colours to paint the totem poles we made last week. We’re really happy with the finished product.
Eid Moon and Star decorations
Reception have made Eid moon and star decorations using card, scissors, glue and glitter! 🌙⭐️
Stay and Learn
Reception had a fun afternoon with their adults! We showed our adults our classroom. We took part in different activities such as; colour mixing, flower blooming, Easter egg designing, tulip printing and tower building with 3D shapes!
Making daffodils
We have noticed all the wonderful daffodils 🌼 that are starting to grow. In our tuff tray, we had to use different materials to construct our own daffodil!
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Stay and Learn – Science
Thank you to all our families for joining us for stay and learn! We really enjoyed completing our science experiments with you – making rainbows and potions is so much fun! Thank you for supporting our stay and learn sessions 🥰
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3D Shapes
This week we have been exploring 3D shapes and their properties. We have used paint to print the faces of the 3D shapes.
DT Week 🍓🥝🥭🍍
This week is DT week! Reception have explored preparing food and tasting different fruits. We have practiced our cutting and knife skills.
DT Week 🪚🖌️✂️
For DT week, reception designed and made their own cars! 🚘 We used scissors, card, tape and oil pastels to create our cars!
DT Week
We have been exploring materials this week in understanding the world. We use blocks and foam to create houses that were stable!
Julia Donaldson 📚
This week Reception are exploring the work of Julia Donaldson. The first book we read was Cave Baby. Using natural resources such as; twigs, leaves, flowers and grass, we made our very own cave paintings.
Julia Donaldson
Reception have explored the text Superworm! We created our very own super worms using card and pens!
The Natural World 🌎
Reception have been exploring and understanding the natural world this week!
Julia Donaldson
We have explored Julia Donaldson’s texts The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s child. We have created our own deep dark wood and made the characters!
The Seashore
This week reception are exploring the sea and the seashore. We have explored different textures in our tuff tray. We used rice crispy for sand, jelly for the sea, rocks for rock pools and shells. Around our classroom there are lots of sea activities to explore!
The Seaside
This week reception have been exploring the seaside and animals under the sea. Our new English text The Storm Whale has inspired us! Using pastels we coloured different animals that we find under the sea. We traced the patterns to help us improve our fine motor skills!
Music and Beatboxing
Reception had an amazing time on the Music zoom. We learnt all about beatboxing and tried some ourselves!
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Dobbies Garden Centre
Reception had an amazing time at Dobbies Garden Centre. We made our own flowers and played in the soft play. We all have lettuce seeds, a pot and soil to take home to plant 🪴 . Thank you Dobbies and thank you to everyone who helped us to walk there!
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Cloud dough
We have had so much fun making our own cloud dough today! F said it felt like slime! It’s really stretchy, and smells amazing 🤩 it has definitely helped to wake up our hand muscles today!
When I Grow Up
Reception were excited to show and talk about what they would like to be when they grow up! Throughout the day we heard about lots of different jobs and explained why we would like to do the jobs chosen.
Now I am grown up
This week reception have been exploring growing up. We have been thinking about how we have changed since we were babies. We have used crayons to draw a picture of ourselves as a baby and then as us grown up now!
Art Week🎨
This week we are learning all about an artist called Paul Klee. We have learnt he uses shapes when painting his pictures. Today we made our own self portraits, we used an our maths knowledge of shapes to help us! We are true Artists🎨
Making wraps!
Yesterday, we made our own wraps at snack time! We named smelt the ingredients first, and talked about whether we had already tried them before. We had the chance to taste each ingredient before deciding whether we would like them on our wrap. And then the fun part…we had to make our wrap! It was trickier than we expected 😉
Pirate Week
This week Reception are exploring pirates. Across our classroom are lots of pirate 🏴☠️ activities for us to explore such as; pirate colour by numbers, pirate tuff tray, pirate map making and pirate stories!
Music Week
This week reception are exploring music. Today we have explored lots of different instruments, learning their names and playing them ourselves. We have also followed and repeated a beat!
We have also watched a music zoom with different musicians who showed us how they play different instruments!
Imagine That!
Reception had an amazing time at imagine that! We made snow, slime and a fridge magnet. We had lots of fun exploring the science, art, imaginative and outdoor areas!
Bastille Day
Reception have learnt all about Bastille Day! We have completed lots of activities to help us to understand Bastille Day and France. 🇫🇷 We have made our own flags using paint and our hands, we had our own French Bakery, and learnt some French words!
