We have been enjoying exploring our new story ‘The Bog Baby’. First, we listened carefully and visualised what we thought the Bog Baby could look like. We listened carefully to the size, features and colours of it and had a go at drawing it. We...
We have begun to create our very own Mud Kitchen in our Reception outdoor area! We have loved creating new recipes as we have mixed, added lots of different things we have found in the garden beds around us, and have role played hosting a...
We have been looking at the composition of numbers and finding one more / one less of a given number. In this picture the children were building towers from a starting base of 5 blocks. They continued to add one more block after each turn...
Across all of our Early Years classes we are looking at ways to enhance our Home Corners and develop a Mud Kitchen Area to further support the development of communication and language. Research shows that childrens oral language develops when they can role play familiar situations and...
This week we have been reading an excellent story called 'The Train Ride'. We thought about the train journeys we have had in the past and those we hope to have in the future. We also used the tools and creative materials available in our...
We have been exploring 3D shapes. We have been looking at what is the same and different between 2D and 3D shapes, and have gone on a hunt to explore these around our classroom! We discussed ways to describe them and used some ramps to explore...
We have been exploring patterns! We used the story ‘Pattern Fish’ and ‘Pattern Bugs’ to name and continue a range of patterns. We discovered patterns can have more than two colours or objects in them and they can look very different. We even discovered patterns...
We have been learning all about simple and more complex patterns. We have been making our own patterns and spotting patterns in books and body movement sequences. Additionally, we have been working together to identify the next steps in pattern sequences....
We have been learning how to compare the weights of objects in Reception. We used scales to see which items in our classroom are heavy and which items are light....
In Reception we celebrated and explored Chinese New Year! We explored what colours, symbols, animals and food were a part of the celebration and role played being in a restaurant, ordering and eating with chopsticks!...