Reception Blog - Friday 19th January 2024

Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 12:54pm

Phonics

This week Mrs Stone's group have been learning the j,v and w sounds. Mrs Robinson's group have been learning the x, y, z and zz sounds.

Maths

We have been learning about partitioning numbers and all the different ways a number can be made. For example, the number 7 can be made with 3+4, 6+1, 5+2.

Drawing Club

This week, we read the story; The Night Pirates.

We designed our own pirate ships and described the treasure found on the desert island.

R.E.

We learned about the story of Jesus blessing the children. We lit a candle and said a prayer.

Understanding the World

We had the surprise of snow this week, this has been brilliant to help us learn more about Winter!

We have continued learning about space. This week we have focussed on the diffferent planets.

We continued our topic about China. We compared buildings in China to buildings in England. We also learnt about the Great Wall of China, which the children found fascinating.

Expressive Arts and Design

In PE we continued to practise our under arm throwing, balancing and rolling. We used large balls to roll to our partner.