Reception Chatter
Reception- Chinese New Year
Today, we have looked into the story of the 12 zodiac! We even made some Chinese dragons so we can celebrate Chinese New Year on Wednesday! 🐉🐉
Peer massage
Mrs Ritchie helped us use our massage skills that we have recently learned from Maria. We made sure to ask permission before we started 💆♀️
What is safe to go into my body?
Today, we talked about what is safe to go into our bodies. We know that food and drink are safe, but we must remember to ask adults first. We might think a bottle looks like it has juice, but we should check. We talked about how medicine is safe, but we should never take medicine without a grown up – only medicines that are meant to be for children are safe. We also had a go at opening a medicine bottle…but it was too tricky! The special lid is to keep us safe.
Den Building
We have worked hard to build a den using our words ending in ing such as: building, playing, pushing, pulling, clipping and covering.
People who help us🚒
This week we have been learning about people who help us, “Real life superhero’s!” 🦸♀️We visited the local fire station and had lots of fun learning all about the role of firefighters 🚒.
Kapla Blocks !
This week for DT Week, we used the Kapla Blocks to build the fire station which we had visited. 🚒
Stay and Learn
We have had a fantastic afternoon with our stay and learn! We enjoyed showing off our learning. Thank you to our families who helped us with our maths focus today!
Our Zoom call with our school collaboration friends from Qatar.
This morning we had zoom call with our friends from Anglefish class. We were able to ask lots of questions. They told us all about how they had a visit from camels in their school. We also could not believe they start school at 7:00am!
Jam Sandwiches
In maths reception have been exploring sequencing by ordering and following instructions on how to make a jam sandwich.
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.
Pancake Day
Reception have been learning about Shrove Tuesday. To celebrate we made pancakes. Our toppings included: strawberries, lemon, sugar, syrup and cream.
World Book Day 🌎📚
Reception had some special visitors this afternoon. Year 4 came down to read some of our favourite stories!
Pancake Tuesday 🥞
Today we have had lots of fun learning all about Shrove Tuesday. We made our pancakes and we even had pancake races outside.
PE
Reception are working on their fundamentals in PE. This week we worked on our throwing and catching skills.
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.
Science Week 🔬👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🧬
Today reception have explored changing materials! Today we turned cream into butter and buttermilk. We shook the cream until it separated into butter and buttermilk. We can’t wait to use our butter tomorrow for our crackers for snack!
Science Week 👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🔬🧬
Today Reception have explored engineering. We programmed the Bee Bots to move across the grid.
Science Week 👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🔬🧬
Reception enjoyed their butter this morning on crackers for snack!🧈
World Book Day 📚
We had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day📚 We did lots of fun activities, we read with our reading buddies and we even read a story in the den we built as a team.
We all made our book mark and read our favourite story the colour monster, as for World Book Day we focused on colours. We know now how to mix different colours to make new colours!
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.
Science Week- Zoom with an engineer
Today Reception had a zoom with an engineer! They told us how rockets get into space! 🪐🚀🛰️
Little Red
This week reception have continued to plan their own version of Little Red. Today build up bear helped us to plan the next section.📝
Our new home corner !
We have had lots of fun choosing our learning in our new home corner. We are very lucky and have lots of new resources.
Science Week, day 2
Today we have been making our own butter. We even got to try it on a cracker. We could not believe we were able to make our own butter. It was a lot of hard work and took a lot of perseverance, but we did it!
Science Week 🧬👨🏽🔬👩🏻🔬🔬
Today reception explored weather for science week! We did an experiment to show how clouds rain 🌧️. We used water, foam and food colouring for our experiment🧪
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.
PE- Fundamentals
Reception have been exploring fundamentals in PE. Today we practiced throwing and aiming towards a target. We used bean bags and hoops.
Art Week!
This week for Art Week we made our very own superhero town. We had lots of fun using the water paints.
St Patrick’s Day ☘️
This week we have been learning all about St Patrick’s Day. We have learnt lots of new facts and had lots of fun doing all off our different activities.
PJ day for Alder Hay
Today we wore our PJs for Alder Hay hospital. We know how much they help us!
Treasure Hunt⭐️
This week we used our map skills to find the treasure which the leprechaun had left outside. We had o much fun, we all found the treasure!
Maths- Odd and Even
Today in reception we have explored odd and even numbers. We made our very own odd and even monsters 👹
ART Week 🎨🖌️
Reception created their own superhero city using; paint, card and glue. We were inspired by the book Juniper Jupiter!
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!
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.
Water play💦
We love our new water area equipment. We are having so much fun using our problem solving skills. Thank you for all your support at our school fundraisers which has allowed us to get all our new equipment. ☺️
Art Week🎨
This week we have been artists. We have made our very own superhero town using water paints. We even had to use out cutting and sticking skills to make the buildings. We had lots of fun! 🖌️
How to catch a wolf🐺
This week in literacy we have been following instruction on how to catch a wolf! We got everything we needed and set up our own trap. We hope we catch a wolf. 🐺
Eid 🌙
This week we have learnt all about. We have lots of new knowledge and we even made our own moon and star for Eid. ⭐️🌙
Rice crispy cakes!
This week we have been learning all about Easter. We had lots of fun and we made our own rice crispy cakes to take home. 🧁
Easter Egg Hunt!
Today we had lots of fun doing our Easter Egg Hunt. We used our problem solving skills to help us find the eggs. We then got to eat the eggs we found. 🐣
Maths, shapes 🟥🔵🔺
In maths we have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes. Today we have been looking at what 2D shapes we can see in the 3D shapes. We used our printing skills to help us do this. 🎨
Life Cycle of a butterfly
This week reception have been exploring the life cycle of a butterfly 🦋 . We looked at the text The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛 to help us explore. We have completed lots of activities to help us understand caterpillars and butterflies.
Year 4 DT
In Year 4, we are designing and making a picnic for our reception friends. Today we asked them a range of questions to find out what they like and dislike. We then went back to class to design them a perfect picnic.
DT Week 🍓🥝🥭🍍
This week is DT week! Reception have explored preparing food and tasting different fruits. We have practiced our cutting and knife skills.
Design a picnic for our Reception friends
Today we made our picnic. We followed our plan from the other day. We used a range of skills: speak, cut, grate, garnish and mix. We thought about appearance, texture and taste.
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The life cycle of a butterfly 🦋
This week we have been learning all about the life cycle of a butterfly. We had lots of fun representing the cycle in different ways. Our caterpillars even came to life and ate from our juicy green leaves. 🍃
Preparing and tasting fruit 🍓
This week for DT week we prepared and tasted lots of different fruits. We focused on the importance of being safe when chopping the fruit. We had lots of fun! We tasted Kiwi, Mango, pineapple and strawberries, they were delicious.
After we tasted our fruit we filled in our Evaluation sheets with our favourite fruits 🍇
Super kind !
We are so proud of you for receiving a Super Kind certificate. Well done for your super kind actions! Thank you, for sharing your toys with our school.
DT Week 🪚🖌️✂️
For DT week, reception designed and made their own cars! 🚘 We used scissors, card, tape and oil pastels to create our cars!
Picnic
Year 4 came and shared their picnic with us! They worked very hard and reception enjoyed their food. Thank you Year 4!
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!
DT Week
Last week for DT Week we used our scissor skills to make our own cars. We spoke about different ways we could make our car for it to go faster and slower.
Wellbeing Week!
For Wellbeing week we had a lovely session in class. We was very calm and we learnt all about pressing our calm button if we are upset. We had lots of fun!
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!
Sports day 🏃♂️
This week was our Sports day. We had lots of fun completing our racers. We all loved watching our parents race, Thank you to everyone who was involved. We all had a lovely and exciting afternoon.
The Storm Whale🌊
This week we have started to learn all about our new book, The Storm Whale. When we arrived at school there was a letter with different items left. We have been using our imaginations to think where the letter could have come from and how we could help the whale. We had some fabulous ideas!
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!
All about out half term ☀️
We have done some independent writing this week! We have written all about our half term and all the fun we had. 😁
Author Visit
Such a lovely time today with our visiting Author Luke Temple. We listened carefully to different extracts from three of his books and asked a range of questions. Which book would you like to read in full?
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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The Storm Whale 🐋
Reception have been enjoying our English book The Storm Whale 🐋! We have been writing lots of sentences with the help of our story friends. Today Wise Owl helped us to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
Our trip to Dobbies Garden Centre!
This week we walked to Dobbies Garden Centre and we got to be like Joe, The Extraordinary Gardener! We had lots of fun making flowers and we even got to take our very own seed home to plant. We had the best time, Thank you Dobbies. 🪴👩🌾
Milo’s Money!
This week we have been learning all about money. We have focused on how we can save money. We had lots of whole class discussions about different way we can save money, we had lots of different ideas!
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.
Aspirations Week!
Yesterday we all came to school dressed up as what we want to be when we are older! We spoke all about why we wanted to be this, drew a picture of ourselves and wrote all about our aspirations.
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!
Tiny Tasters !
This week was our first session with Tiny Tasters. Our reception families had lots of fun during the session. They spoke all about healthy eating, focusing on the correct and safe way to prepare their food. The children got to prepare and make their own wrap, which they even got to eat! Thank you Tiny Tasters we look forward to next week. 🥗
Independent Writing✍️
This week we have been working on our independent writing. We have had lots of fun writing this week. We have wrote all about our creations, our amazing pictures and we have even wrote about our phonics friend Fred. We are super writers !
Bikeability Balance !
This week had lots of fun taking part in Bikeability Balance. We learnt lots of new skills, it was very exciting! 🚴
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🎨
Bike Right
Reception had fun learning to ride bikes safely. We used the safety helmets to keep ourselves safe. They had lots of fun playing different games when riding the bikes!
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!
Ready Steady Write
Octopus Opening helps us to plan our writing. Using the planning circle we planned our very own opening to our story.
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!
Pirates!
This week we have been learning about maps. We have have made and described our pirates and pirate maps. We did lots of fun activities !
Music Week !
This week we have had lots of fun with our musical instruments. We learnt all about following the beat.
Our reception Memories !
As it is coming to the end of the year, we have been talking all about our favourite memories in reception. We all had big smiles on our faces thinking and looking at all the fun times we have had. 😃
Bastille Week !
This week we have learnt all about the Bastille celebrations! We have had lots of fun learning all about famous French landmarks. We are able to tell you all about why they celebrate Bastille in France and how they celebrate it. We are amazing!
Welcome Reception!
Welcome to Reception. We are having lots of fun exploring our new classroom and making new friends.
Our first week !
We have had an amazing first week in reception. We have had lots of fun exploring our classroom and making lots of new friend’s. We are very excited for next week!
Reception R’s Class Motto
Today the children discussed what they want their class motto to be. The children said that they love to play with kind friends and we talked about how we can be a kind friend.
At the end we decided that our classes motto is going to be:
Always Be Kind
All the children agreed and signed the motto with their handprint 🖐️
Maths
Reception have explored numbers to 5, they placed the correct amount of cubes onto the numbers!
RE- The Creation Story
The children have explored the Christian creation story. They created their very own jellyfish 🪼 and discussed why the creation story is important to Christians. We used scissors to cut out our jellyfish and glue to stick the tentacles on!
PSHE
In reception, we have been exploring ourselves. In PSHE we shared our favourite things and why they are so important to us.
Friendship
This week reception have been exploring what makes a good friend. We said that; kind hands, kind words and kind actions are what make a great friend!
Today we have made a friendship potion where we’ve added: kindness, happiness and smiles to our potions 🧪.
Harvest Festival
In RE, reception explored the Christian Harvest Festival. We explored the foods that are included in the festival. We discussed the season Autumn and the crops and foods that grow during this time.
Emotions Week!
This week reception have explored emotions. We have read lots of stories to help us understand different emotions including; The Colour Monster, The Worry Monster and The Worrysauras. The children have used a range of materials to create their very own Feeling Jars inspired by The Colour Monster!
PSHE-SCARF
In our PSHE SCARF lesson this week, we discussed the word ‘trust’. We thought about the people who we trust and why. We discussed our family and friends. Then we wrote and drew the five people that we trust!
Phonics
Reception have been working hard on their phonics! This week they have been helping Fred 🐸 to blend CVC words and learn their first 10 sounds.
PE
Reception have been exploring spatial awareness and ball skills in PE. We understand how important it is to know where we are and where our friends are, so that we don’t bump into each other whilst playing! This week we worked with our partners to pass the ball to each other.
Maths
In Maths, reception have been learning about sorting and matching. This week reception used the Autumn objects to create their own sorting rule. The children made many different rules including:
-brown and not brown
-round and not round.
Emotions Week
Reception explore The Worrysaurus by Rachel Bright this week. Using the story puppets and the story cards the children ordered the story and recreated the story in our small world.
Emotions Week- The Very Hungry Worry Monster
This week, Reception explored the text The Very Hungry Worry Monster by Rosie Greening. We discussed when and why we might feel worried. We also discussed what we can do if we feel worried and who we can talk to. Reception created their very own Worry Monster using cotton pads, pipettes and coloured water.
Phonics
Reception learnt 5 new sounds this week in phonics. Scan the QR codes to help the children practice the new sounds at home!
Our first visit to the Library 📚
Today we went to the library for the first time. We had lots of fun reading lots of different books. Our favourite book today was The Colour Monster. ⭐️
Self portraits 🪞
We have been working very hard to draw our self portraits ✏️. We used mirrors to help us with our drawings. We know that every self portrait will be different as we are all unique.
English
Reception had a visitor today! Build up Bear came to help us plan our own version of The Something. We have enjoyed reading The Something for English and can’t wait to write our very own story!
