Float or sink?

This week in Reception our construction area challenge was to make boats. We had lots of resources to choose from including plastic tubs, cardboard boxes, stickle bricks and Lego. At the end of the week we learnt about what floating and sinking means then took our boats outside to the water tray to test them. We made a prediction for each boat before putting it into the water to find out if we were right. We found the plastic boats were more likely to float whilst the cardboard boats got too wet and sank. We also noticed the sail had to be very strong otherwise it would make the boat topple over. We talked about wind power and how it helped the boats to sail. We had lots of fun!

PJ reading fun!

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us this evening to explore our lovely books in school and enjoy some reading fun together. Please remember to continue to read regularly at home to support your child with their learning. Thank you

It’s baking time!

For our end of term treat we made biscuits. We had to carefully read the recipe and follow the instructions. We helped to measure out the ingredients and used our strong muscles to mix them together. Then we had great fun rolling the dough into ball shapes and flattening it out before baking in the oven. The biscuits looked delicious and made the classroom smell lovely. Tomorrow we are going to ice them using red icing and gold decorations as part of our Chinese New Year celebrations. We can’t wait to eat them, yum!

We love stir fry!

In reception we have been learning all about Chinese New Year. This week we read some instructions on how to make a stir fry and watched as Mrs Bramley made it. We learnt about the different ingredients such as bean sprouts and noodles, it was cooked in a special pan called a wok. We then all got to try some of the stir fry, some of us loved it and ate it all up, some of us were super brave and tried a little bit. We have loved learning about Chinese New Year and can’t wait to share more of what we have been doing on our blog and tapestry.

Happy New Year!

Happy 2024! We have loved welcoming the children back to Holly and Oak class and hearing all about their Christmas news. There is lots to look forward to in the spring term and we have now started learning some of our new digraphs (2 letters making 1 sound) in phonics, so far we have learnt ‘qu’, ‘th’ ‘ch’ and ‘sh’. After half term the children will be having three swimming lessons, these are always lots of fun and the children’s water confidence builds up enormously over the three sessions. We will post pictures from these lessons on Tapestry.

Reception Nativity!

It has been a busy and festive couple of weeks in Reception. The children have loved accessing lots of lovely Christmas activities in class including; writing Christmas lists to Santa, thinking of their own special Christmas wish, making Christmas tree decorations, making cards and posting them in our Christmas themed post office and lots, lots more. Last week Holly and Oak class performed their Nativity to parents and carers and what a success it was!  We were very proud of how confidently they sang, danced and read their lines and we’re sure that you all were too. Thank you again for all your support this term and we wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Autumn is here!

It’s been a busy and fun filled first couple of weeks back for Holly and Oak class. Last week we went on an Autumn walk to Oakford Lawn to look for signs of Autumn. We noticed that the leaves were starting to change colour from green to red, brown, yellow and pink. We even saw some amazing toadstools growing. At the end of our walk we had time to play in the Autumn leaves, it was so much fun! This term we will be also learning about different animals that hibernate during Autumn through our lovely class text ‘Wide Awake Hedgehog’ by Rose Wellesley.

Learning is fun!

We have been working and playing hard in Reception this week. We have made great progress with our sounds and are learning to hear, say and find initial sounds.

We matched the object to the correct initial sound.

We have been learning about Guy Fawkes and bonfire night celebrations. We coloured firework pictures in and thought about the first sound of these colours.

Pink, orange and purple.

We also painted firework pictures.

We all agree that we are great learners in Reception 😀

Old Mrs Bramley

Today we had a very special visit from Old Mrs Bramley. She had been reading the story “Peepo”. Peepo is set in the past, around the time that Old Mrs Bramley was a little girl. She showed us objects that she had her home and talked about life in those days. Can you believe that she had to use the toilet in the garden because there wasn’t one in her house?! Some of the things she showed us was a lump of coal, a bevelled mirror and a very old iron. We were so interested that you could have heard a pin drop. Here are some of the photos she showed us.

Welcome to Holly and Oak Class

It’s been a wonderful first week in Reception. We’ve made so many friends and have enjoyed exploring our new environment. We’ve been very busy. Here are a few of the activities we have been playing.

We have been drawing our faces.

This is the book area in Holly Class

This is the book area in Oak Class

Look at our maths areas.

We have been getting to know Barry a bit better.

Our teachers think we are amazing and we are all looking forward to more laughter and learning together.