Outdoor fun!

In Recpetion this week we have spent a lot of time outdoors as you can imagine! We have really been enjoying our outdoor area and all the fun that we can have. The children have used their imagination to build tracks and roads for the bikes and scooters. Also they have built assault courses and investigates water tracks. There will be photos to follow!

Also please can I ask for any old kitchen utensils as we are making a mud- kitchen. We will need pots and pans, baking trays and spoons etc. These items do not have to be new or in excellent condition as they are for outdoors.

Thank you to all of the adults who attended Parents Evening as it was lovely to tell you how well your children are doing and to hear from the people who know them best!

Miss Greenwood

Strange object found!!!

There was a strange object found on the field outside the Reception Class today. The grass was all black and scorched and in a big hole in the middle was a mysterious object. The object was shiny and silver but looked like a rock. It had strange wires sticking out of the side of it. The children in Recepetion class all had a good look at it and thought about what it might be and where it might be from. The children decided that it must be from space as there are no rocks like that on our planet. Some suggested that it might be a moon rock that had fallen from the moon last night. Someone also suggested that spacemen may have dropped it from their spaceship. We will need to find out all about space and the moon inorder to work out what it might be.

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