Focus Week - Reception
It’s hard to believe how quickly this half term has flown by! Reception have had a wonderfully busy few weeks, filled with lots of exploring, creating and learning together. The children have shown great interest and eagerness to learn, and it’s been a pleasure to see their confidence and independence continue to grow.
Our topic this half term has been Transport, and we’ve explored lots of different modes of transport, from cars, trains and buses to boats and planes. The children enjoyed comparing old and new forms of transport, spotting similarities and differences, and talking about how transport has changed over time. We also explored maps, looking at what they are used for, and even had a go at making our own maps, thinking carefully about routes and landmarks.
In Literacy, we have loved sharing the stories The Train Ride, Duck in the Truck and You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus. These books inspired some brilliant learning, including writing predictions, speech bubbles, and simple notes. We also spent lots of time learning about rhyming words, with the children becoming very good at spotting and creating rhymes of their own.
In Maths, we have been learning about length, weight and capacity, using practical equipment to compare, measure and explore. We compared the length of everyday objects by saying whether they were “longer” or “shorter”, and we used a variety of containers to explore filling them up and then emptying them again. The children have also been working on the composition of numbers up to 5, building numbers in different ways and explaining their thinking using concrete resources like counters and cubes.
Our Understanding the World learning has been very hands-on and exciting! We investigated different materials to see whether they were waterproof or not, and explored whether objects float or sink. The children will use their findings to design and make their own boats, testing them out and talking about what worked well.
The children have also thoroughly enjoyed their dance lessons with Giselle this half term, where they have been developing their coordination, listening skills and confidence while having lots of fun moving to music.
The children loved taking part in a drama workshop where they had to pretend to be toys in a toyshop, and we also had a visit from author Neal Zetter, who shared some of his funny poems with us.
It has been a joy to see how much the children have learned and grown this half term – we’re very proud of them all!
