The children had a wonderful time exploring the signs of Autumn around our school grounds. We looked at the different kinds of trees such as Sycamore, Silver Birch and Pine. The leaves were changing into beautiful autumn colours of red, yellow, orange and brown. We also talked about some plants and trees being evergreen. We found helicopter seeds and threw
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As part of our celebrations for Harvest Festival the Reception children learned about different kinds of bread. They had the opportunity to try pumpernickel, brioche, baguette and wholemeal bread. Some of the breads got the thumbs up and some didn’t! The children used lots of interesting words to describe the breads, such as yummy, fluffy, squishy and tasty!
The School Nurses visited Reception today. We watched a DVD and learned about germs! We practised washing our hands and did some experiments to learn how germs can quickly spread. The balloon popped (sneeze) and the glittery stars (germs) flew everywhere!
We read the story ‘Enemy Pie’ by Derek Munson. The children then had to sort ‘friend’ words, such as sharing, caring, kind and ‘enemy’ words such as mean, bully, hurtful.
The children had fun playing with Jelly Babies. They had to demonstrate how good friends can play nicely together.
The children all took part in a very active maths activity called ‘Shape Shopping’. The children were in different shape teams. Each team searched for their shapes. Then each team set up their shape shops. The hard part came when every team had a shopping list where they had to tick off each shape they ‘bought’.
This week Reception tried a tricky task to test out their teamwork. We tried to pass the hoop around the circle without letting go of hands, it was very tricky but the children were tremendous!
As part of learning about how we are the same and how we are different, the children have been comparing their heights and the size of different parts of the body. They have also used cubes for measuring.
It was very exciting in Brazil! We created our own carnival head dresses which were very colourful! We then paraded around the school playing percussion instruments and having a wonderful carnival time, making lots of noise and practising our dancing too! We learned about the Amazon Rainforest and all the amazing creatures that live there. We also tasted some very