We have been very busy in Reception this week as the children became authors and wrote their own books all about dinosaurs! They each choose different dinosaurs to draw and write a fact they had learnt about this dinosaur. We focused on using our segmenting and blending strategies for writing such as ‘robot arms’. We …
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Reception – Apple and Lime
Feb 07 2025
Dinosaur fossils!
In Maths this week we have recapped comparison of groups of objects, without being diverted by colour, shape or size. We have had a big focus on using the key language of ‘more than’, ‘fewer than’ and ‘an equal number’ to describe how many objects there are in each set. We use ‘Fewer than’ rather …
Jan 31 2025
Happy Lunar New Year
In Phonics we have completed the teaching of our last Phase 3 phonics sounds, these were ure, er and ow. We have also introduced the new harder to read and spell words ‘ball’ and ‘tall’. Towards the end of the week we practised our segmenting skills to write words that included all of our new …
Jan 24 2025
What did dinosaurs eat?
In maths we have been deepening our understanding of a ‘whole’ being made up of smaller parts through practical experiences. We enjoyed learning the song ‘5 little speckled frogs’ and using our hands and counters to represent the frogs on the log and in the pool. In phonics we have introduced some new sounds including …
Jan 10 2025
Welcome back!
We have had an amazing first week back in Reception. Well done to all of the children for coming back to school so well! They have come back really settled and have remembered all our school expectations and routines. We have had some very excited children this week as we have started to learn all …
Dec 13 2024
It’s showtime!
In topic time this week we have continued our focus on Antarctica and penguins. We read the story ‘Blue Penguin’ and focused on how everyone is different and why this makes us special. We were very lucky to have letters delivered to the school from the Blue Penguin. We practised our phonics skills to write …
Dec 06 2024
PENGUIN HUDDLE!
Reception have really enjoyed the storybook ‘Penguin Huddle’ this week in topic lessons. We spent time making story predictions and discussed the thoughts and feelings of the characters. We then thought about what we already knew about penguins and what else we would like to find out. We researched these questions using non-fiction books and …
Nov 29 2024
NOT I!
This week in topic have been focusing on the story ‘The Little Red Hen’. At the start of the week we read the story and thought about new vocabulary that we had not heard of before e.g. ‘mill’, ‘wheat’ and ‘grain’. We then followed a simple recipe to create our own bread rolls. We then …
Nov 22 2024
Fee-fi-fo-fum!
Our story focus this week in topic has been ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We have really enjoyed reading some different versions of these stories and comparing the story events and characters. We looked at the life cycle of a bean and then planted some of our own. We have put these on the classroom windows …
Nov 15 2024
I’ll huff and i’ll puff and i’ll blow your house down!
In our traditional tales topic this week we have focused on the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We started the week thinking about all the traditional tales we already knew that have a wolf character in them. We then read different versions of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ stories to compare the similarities and differences. We …
