This week we have been learning how to calculate amounts of money. Can you calculate how much money is needed to pay for different items? […]
This week we have been reading a new traditional tale – ‘The Little Red Hen’. In the story we noticed that none of the farm animals were willing to help the Hen to plant the Wheat he wanted. We enjoyed […]
This week we have been exploring Chinese New Year! We looked at why Chinese New Year is celebrated using the story of the animals. We learnt that each year is named after an animals place that they won in a […]
This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We heard the story of the 12 animals who had a race to have each year named after them. We learnt that the rat won the race and that this […]
This wee we tested the strength of paper by making paper bridges. We folded the paper in 4 different ways to see which bridge would be the strongest. We had a great afternoon! […]
This week we have been finding out about Chinese New Year. The children enjoyed listening to the Chinese zodiac story, sequencing the story, talking about the ordinal numbers in the story, making lanterns and dragons. We also compared the UK […]
Today in our PE lesson we got the wall bars out and explored jumping, climbing and landing safely. We had to listen carefully to the rules. If Miss T shakes the tambourine it means stop, safely climb down from the […]
This has been our second week of investigating the book ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson in Reception. We have been learning about habitats and linking these to our rights and basic needs. We learnt that all animals, including humans, need: […]
We have been exploring the story, The Gruffalo. We have taken part in a Gruffalo dance, we’ve written about the characters, made Gruffalo habitats and we even found some Gruffalo footprints in our class library! It has been lots of […]
This week we expanded our learning using Design and Technology, to create our Habitat for the Gruffalo. We first discussed what materials we would need to make the Gruffalo house, and the skills we would need to make it. We […]