This week in Reception we started to tell the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. As part of our Understanding the World strand we planted some beans in soil and we will be keeping a ‘Bean Diary’ to record how they grow.

We have been making a magical forest. We will be adding to as the weeks go on. So far we have a Valentine’s themed tree, a button tree and a patterned tree.

Wellbeing week was a huge hit with our Reception children last week. We wore our own clothes to express ourselves on Friday and completed a survey to find out new things about each other.

Recently we have been finding out all about Chinese New Year. Our dragon has been busy dancing around our classrooms while the children play drums and bells.

We have been putting our scientific skills to the test. As it’s winter we have been predicting what will happen when we put ice in a bowl and water in the freezer. We have also completed some fabulous writing describing what ice looks and feels like.

What an amazing morning! We met baby dinosaurs and saw lots of fossils!

Uh oh! Our very cheeky elf was having a lovely time with Our frogs!

Some outside exploring we did today!

We have had such a busy, fun day so far being explorers! We have been getting very creative and have even made dinosaur footprint biscuits! 🦕

We have had lots of fun mixing colours recently in Reception! 🎨

We have been representing 4 in lots of different ways!

We have enjoyed learning about Diwali this week and getting creative making firework pictures and rangoli patterns.

We made firework pictures! We enjoyed talking about the different colours and shapes that they make. 🎇🎆

Today we enjoyed our first assembly in the hall, all about kindness! We created little kindness cards to thank someone for their kindness! @52Lives

We went on a number hunt! We explored making 1, 2 and 3! We looked for these amounts in our classroom. Can you see what we found…

We have continued learning about patterns this week and the children are loving completing the missing parts and making their own!

We have explored what a pattern is today in Maths. We identified different patterns around the room and used words like, ‘stripy and spotty’ to describe them.

A triceratops has been trudging through our classroom! We compared our feet to see who had bigger! The triceratops won!

We have been exploring ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ in our Maths learning today! We grouped different objects and decided which group had more and which had fewer.

We enjoyed learning the ‘m’ and ‘a’ sounds today! We are encouraging lots of mark making in Reception, and the children are really enjoying it!