Welcome back to our final term in Reception! In Summer 1 we will be learning about Living and Growing. We will start our topic by going on our first school trip to Hesketh Farm.
We are reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
We have our own caterpillars in the classroom and we will be watching them grow and observing changes over time. (CLL, UTW)
We have our own fruit and vegetable shop in Reception. Miss Butler is our shop keeper. We are learning about different fruit and vegetables and describing them. We are counting out items to buy and taking turns. We are using coins to pay the shop keeper. (CLL, EAD, UTW, PSED)
We are making insects out of playdough! (CLL, PD, EAD, UTW)
Today twelve chick eggs arrived in school. We have put the eggs in our incubator and numbered and named each egg. We will now wait 21 days to see if any of our eggs hatch and become real chicks. (CLL, EAD, UTW)
Our First School Trip to Hesketh Farm
The children went on a paddock walk to meet the animals and feed the goats. They collected eggs and handled the chicks. They took a tractor ride through the fields to learn about the cows and sheep and took time to handle and brush the guinea pigs. They even had time to make milk for the lambs and feed them using bottles. (CLL, PD, UTW)
We are continuing to observe our caterpillars. They are eating and growing in their pots. We are hoping to see them start to change more in the next week.
Take a look at some of our new provision ...
We have been busy learning about the story of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
In maths the children have been learning to share equally. We shared the story of "The Squirrels who Squabbled" The children practiced sharing food equally between 2 squirrels and 2 bears.
The children have been exploring grouping. The children worked in pairs and were given 12 cubes. The children were challenge to make groups of 2, then groups of 3 and then groups of 4.
May Day
The children have enjoyed celebrating May Day. They paraded their decorates bikes and scooters for the rest of the school before watching some of the older children perform a folk song and maypole dancing. At lunchtime the children had a special picnic.
Exciting News... 2 of our eggs have hatched!
Over thank bank holiday weekend our caterpillars made their cocoons and are now ready to be transferred into the net ready for them to emerge into butterflies.
The time has come to prepare our garden. Mrs Spivey is busy preparing the soil. She has lots of very excited helpers. (UTW, CLL, PSED)
Stay and Play Session
What a wonderful time we had at our stay and play session for parents. We made flower biscuits, bird feeders, pebble ladybirds, glitter butterflies, magic cress gardens and leaf rubbing. (PSED, UTW, CLL, EAD)
The children were very excited to get to pet our chicks. They used gentle hands and asked lots of questions. (UTW, C&L)
Maths
The children have been learning how to replicate and build scenes and constructions. We shared the story 'Rosie's Walk' and then recreated the journey using our playground equipment.
Butterfly Release
Today we released the butterflies. The children discussed what they had observed from when we first got them as tiny caterpillars. Some children were lucky enough to hold the butterflies before they took flight. (C&L, UTW)
The children have been wearing claret and amber or their football shirts to raise money for the Bradford burns unit.
Sponsored Obstacle Course
Thank you to all those who support the children with their sponsored obstacle course. Despite the very hot weather the children thoroughly enjoyed taking part. (PD, PSED)
Our topic for summer 2 is 'Buckets and Spades'. We are going to be learning all about the seaside!
Maths - Making Connections
The children have been working together to make predictions about how many bears it would take to sink each of the boats. We then put each of the boats in the water and carefully counted as we placed the bears in the boats. We wrote down what we found out and compared this to our predictions. (M, C&L)
We found out ...
The tinfoil boat took the most amount of bears to sink.
The paper boat took the least amount of bears to sink.
Take a look at some of summer themed provision activities ...
Problem Solving
In maths, the children have been working together to solve problems. Today, our special class bear had been for a swim and got stuck in shark infested waters. The children had to work together to come up with a plan of how to save the bear with the given resources without touching the water. (M, C&L, PSED)
Artwork
The children have been using oil pastels to create sea creatures for our window display. (EAD)
We loved our visit to the ice cream van during the heat wave!
Shakespeare
The children have been leaning the story "A Midsummer Night's Dream". They have acted out the story adn had discussions about people and things that they love.
Sports Day
The children showed fantastic perseverance and sportsmanship on their very first sports day. See some actions shots below.
Ice Cream Party
Ove this last year our class have been collecting attendance vouchers. The children used the class vouchers to purchase ice cream and toppings for an ice cream party.
Inflatable Fun Day
The children explored the trim trail and climbing frame on the filed before having lots of fun on the inflatables.