Reception

This week we continued our work on minibeasts. On Friday we celebrated Science Day by having a minibeast hunt. We found lots of creatures in our outdoor area including worms, earwigs, woodlice, ants, beetles, snails, slugs and millipedes. When we […]

This week we have been learning to decompose a rectangle into different shapes. We first cut our rectangle into two symmetrical pieces, we then rotated the pieces to see which new shapes we could make with these. We identified a […]

This week we have been reading the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We sequenced the story, and thought of captions to write for each picture. When writing we reminded ourselves of the sounds for spelling, by sounding out. We […]

This week we started our new topic on ‘Minibeasts’. Our learning was based on the hungry caterpillar and we enjoyed retelling the story, painting and writing shopping lists. We also had a special delivery of our own caterpillars and we […]

Last week as part of our learning for ‘The Three Little Pigs’, we planned and drew a house for the three little pigs. We discussed which materials would be suitable to make a ‘strong’ house. We thought that the lego […]

This week we have been Mathematicians in Tiger Class. We have been learning to count numbers 10 and beyond. We used visual aids such as ten frames, and counters to help us understand the concept of 10 and and more. […]

This week we continued our work on ‘The Three Little Pigs’. The children enjoyed making the houses they designed last week and we tested them using the big bad wolf which was a hairdryer in disguise. We found that the […]

This week we have been exploring the traditional tale of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We explored the story through sequencing and retelling using puppets and role play materials. We then explored which materials would be suitable to build a house. […]

This week we have been celebrating Autism Awareness week and today the children have been learning some basic facts about Autism. We have discussed how we are all different, and that some of us have things that are the same […]

This week we have been looking at the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We explored the story through sequencing and retelling using puppets and role play materials. We then explored which materials would be suitable to build a house. […]