Reception Blog - Friday 19th April 2024

Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 1:28pm

Phonics

This week Mrs Stone's group learnt the sounds or and ar. Mrs Robinson's group learnt the ur and ow sounds.

Drawing Club

This week we started our new topic about animals.

We have been reading the story of Tiddler. We thought about ways for Tiddler to escape from the net and how he can escape from a shark.

Maths

This week we have been learning the doubles of numbers 1 to 10.

R.E.

We revisited the events of Holy week. We then discussed Pentecost and Jesus promising the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Understanding the World

This week was very exciting. We came back and found our caterpillars in cocoons. Throughout the week we have seen two butterflies hatch from the cocoons. We talked about what they were doing. On Friday we opened the net for them to fly away.

We have also been on a mini beast hunt this week.

Physical Development

This week we started to practice for sports day. Date in newsletter - Thursday 2nd May.

Expressive Arts and Design

We made minibeasts out of clay and we have been using natural equipment to make our own minibeasts.

Forest School

We watched Mrs Corbett light a fire and then we cooked some popcorn!

What a fantastic first week back!