Reception Blog - Friday 3rd November 2023

Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 10:38am

This week in Reception, we started our week learning all about Bonfire Night and doing some Bonfire art pictures!

Our story this week has been What's in the Witch's Kitchen. The children have loved taking the story into their learning, going into the Witch's lair to make their own potions. During drawing club time the children have drawn their own witch and drawn their own witch's kitchen.

In maths, we have been looking at 2D shapes (circle, square, rectangle and triangle) We have been spotting them in our classroom and around school and we have been finding them in games and repeating patterns.

In phonics this week, we have been learning the ck, e and u sounds. We have used lots of games to help us with this. A big thank you to everyone that attended our phonics night. We hope that you have found this useful. Any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

This week in French, we recapped and practised some French greetings. We did this by saying bonjour or au revoir to the appearing and disappearing pirates, by listening to a French greetings song, and by using finger puppets to talk to greet each other as new characters.

In PSHE this week, we have been learning about germs and how they spread. We have talked about covering our noses and mouths when sneezing and coughing and washing our hands regulary.

This week we have started our new topic all about people who help us. We have talked about all of the different people who help us, and we were fortunate enough to have the Police come and visit this week. The children loved seeing the cars and equipment that they use. We even got to go in the cars and set the sirens off and finished our session seeing three police dogs!

On Friday we had Yoga and Forest school.We created a home for an animal. We discussed what a home needs; to provide shelter from the weather, warmth, protection from predators, space, food and water. We had our own soft toy to make a home for. We used natural materials to make our animal home and worked in small groups and had some brilliant discussions. 

We also talked about living in Longton and went on google earth to see all of the different things we see on our way to school, for example; zebra crossings, traffic lights and bus stops.