Spring has sprung in Reception
Spring has officially sprung in Reception, this week we have been focusing on our outdoor area. We have been digging and planting flowers and vegetables in our garden. We have created a brand new digging area, focusing on being safe with the tools and sharing our...
Seasons Come, Seasons Go!
A warm welcome to our new friends in nursery. We are super proud of how well they have settled. We have focused on a book called Seasons Go, Seasons Go, Trees this week. As the title suggests, the story describes how trees change depending on the season. We chose a...
Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring!
This week we have focused on Spring flowers and Easter. We shared the story, Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring and payed particular attention to Spring flowers. For science/understanding the world, we studied a variety of flowers and talked about why the flowers didn't...
An Egg-stravanganza of a week in the Reception Classes
The children have had an 'eggcellent' week of learning linked to Easter. They started the week by looking at the Easter story and how Easter can be celebrated. In Maths, they enjoyed an addition egg hunt using the Numicon. The children have made chocolate Easter nests...
Vincent van Gogh’s 12 Sunflowers
This week we have continued our plant/flower theme and focussed on Vincent van Gogh's Twelve Sunflower's in a Vase. We produced some stunning paintings of sunflowers as well as making booklets and drawings. In maths we played dominoes to improve our subitising skills....
Stepping into Spring!
We have made the most of the beautiful Spring weather this week and worked as a team to tidy our nursery garden. We weeded some of the planting boxes, raked leaves and washed some equipment. During our Friday outdoor session, we walked to our compost heap to deposit...
Red Nose Day and much more!
This week we have focused on the story, The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. During Maths we carefully printed some petals onto a numbered flower head using paint and our fingers. Some of us even drew some roots at the bottom of the flower's stem. We make some excellent...
Run, run as fast as you can…
We have introduced and explored a new traditional take this week, ‘The Gingerbread Man’. The children used their thinking skills to create a bridge for the gingerbread man to cross the river instead of being eaten by the fox. We were so impressed with their ability to...
Edible Plant Collages!
We have continued our plant topic this week. We finished off making some plant collages to show the structure of a plant which have been displayed in nursery and look fabulous. We made some fantastic edible plant collages using a range of salad and fruit. It was...
Pancakes, World Book Day and much more!
We have had a super busy week! We started our new topic this week which focuses on plants. We read the book, A Seed in Need which informed us about what a seed and plant need to grow. We learned the names of the different parts of a plant and some of us made a collage...
Secrets of Winter
This week we have participated in activities based around the book, Secretes of Winter. The book requires a torch to reveal hidden animals within some of the pages and we expertly used torches to find them and retell the story. We found out that snowflakes have six...
Investigating Forces in Nightingales
This week Nightingales have been investigating how the gradient of a ramp impacts on the distance a car can travel. We started by exploring the movement of objects on different surfaces. Then we set up our investigation using 3 blocks, a ramp and a car. Everyone had a...