Reception

Welcome to our Reception Class! The adults in our class are Megan Millane, Lisa Browne and Fathima Sultan Mohamed.

We hope that you all had a lovely half term break. Our topic for this Spring half term is ‘Mini-beasts and Mega beasts’. We will be learning lots of information about animals around the world such as, what their habitat is like, how they move around, and how they change from babies to adults.

We will be changing our role play area from a Garden Centre to a Vet’s Surgery to support the topic teaching. This week in English we are reading the story ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees. We will also be discussing the story line and how the animals were unkind and not inclusive of ‘Gerald the Giraffe’. During maths we will be doing lots of practical maths learning about additional sums talking about + and =


See What We’ve Been Up To

This week in Reception in our maths we have been busy learning about how to share a group of objects equally.  The children have enjoyed practising sharing equally using puppets and food.

The book of the week was ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle, which is a classical story book about a caterpillar that eats a lot of different food before spinning a cocoon and then emerging as a beautiful butterfly.

The children enjoyed painting pictures of butterflies outside and also making food using playdough for the hungry caterpillar to eat.

We have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly and reading non-fiction books that tell us more facts about different types of mini-beasts.

Did you know that the earthworm does not have any eyes?  Also, spiders usually have eight eyes!  What interesting facts about any mini-beast can you find out about?

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