This week (3rd Feb)

Reception class have been busy bees this week. We started to think about vets and how they are a bit like doctors but they look after animals. This led us on to thinking about animals and what we knew about them. The children started to consider if they could match baby animals to their adult counterparts, which was fascinating, though some of the children found frogs/tadpoles a little confusing! We also looked at the similarities and differences between animals, deciding which animals were the best for certain jobs. We decided that a dog would make a good pet as it is cuddly and soft, but a shark would not be a good pet as it might eat you!

Another key area this week has been addition. We began to look at the language of addition and how we can record that by writing a number sentence. It is only early days but the children are showing a lot of promise

Police

We also enjoyed a visit from a police officer. PC Greenwood visited us from Killingbeck Police Station. She told us all about being a police officer and we asked lots of questions. She showed us her handcuffs and her notebook and torch. The children all enjoyed trying on her helmet. We made handcuffs out of card and decided to make our own police station!

Nurses.

We recently had a visit from a nurse, to tell us all about people who help us. We enjoyed asking questions and weighing and measuring each other. We decided to turn our role play area into a hospital.

People Who help us

Our Current topic is People who help us and we have been having a fantastic time finding out about different people, both here in school and within the community. We had a visit from a nurse, who came to talk about working in a hospital. The children then decided that we should turn the role-play area into a hospital. It has been lots of fun dressing up as doctors and nurses, healing our fellow classmates. We have also discussed medicines and how we use them, considering how people may need medicines, but how dangerous they can be if not used proerly. The children all decided that only adults should give out medicine and they should be kept up high, out of reach of children.

Ahoy there mi' hearties! In Reception this week we have started a new  topic of pirates. We have had an exciting start to the topic; turning our role play area into a pirate ship. We have looked at lots of books and stories about pirates in order to find out about them. Looking closely  at pirates, we labelled the features of pirates including eye patches, wooden legs and a parrot on their shoulder! Some children threaded pasta onto string and paintied it gold to make some necklaces that we could use as treasure. The children have shown a keen interest in the topic and have lots of questions that they would like to find out about the subject.

 

 

 

Also I would like to say a big thank you for completing the children's first homework. These were exceptional and the children all enjoyed sharing what they had done with the class.

 

Thanks!

 

Miss G

Kings and Queens

In Reception we have had a great time introducing the topic of Kings and Queens. We have brainstormed what we know already about the topic and what we would like to find out. The children were all interested in Castles and we have started to turn the role play area into our own Castle. We have worked together to create the castle walls, the turret and the throne. We have also been making castles in the creative area and outside area, using the large blocks. It has been great fun making crowns using shiny card and sequins, so that we can all be princes and princesses. The highlight of the week has to be when we recieved a letter from one of the Queen's corgis, who sent us some photos of the Queen and the Palace!

March 2013

Something fishy was going on in Reception this week!

As a class, we made up a story called 'Goldy's Adventure' about the exciting journey of a pet fish. The children had to decide what was going to happen, who the characters were and try to use exciting story language. We then put actions to our story so that we could retell it orally to our friends. Lots of the children did a really good job at remembering it. Next we made story maps, showing the story using pictures and words. Some children even attempted to re-write the whole story! We have really enjoyed working on a story together and look forward to the next one.

 

This follows on from the work we did last week on the Rainbow Fish, which we are in the process of making a fantastic display of.