Focus Week – Reception
Reception have had a fantastic first few weeks back after our Easter break and are all looking so grown up now in their final term in Early Years!
Our topic for this half term is Growing, which kicked off with a bang with the arrival of our chick eggs! We have loved watching them grow from eggs to the cutest fluffy chicks. We have all been incredibly excited to have them in our classrooms, and they have been a great source of inspiration for our writing. We have written guides all about how to look after the chicks, thought about what our most cheeky chicks may say to one another and have explored the life cycle of chicks, finding out that when a chick is newly hatched it is called a hatchling and that our chicks will grow into roosters or hens when they grow up! Our favourite part of seeing the chicks has been being able to give them a cuddle! We were all very sensible and gentle with our little feathered friends who we are sad to see leave us this Friday. Whilst we say goodbye to our chick friends, we are incredibly excited to make some more animal friends on our upcoming trip to Romshed farm where we hope to see some newborn lambs!
We have been incredibly smart in our Maths sessions, learning all about odd and even numbers. We loved making our own Numberblocks and exploring how odd Numberblocks always have a spare at the top, whilst even Numberblocks will always be in pairs. We were very quick to sort our Numberblocks into odd and even teams! We are continuing to explore our doubles to 10 and are getting so good at it, we are beginning to be able to double our numbers without working out the answer on our fingers! We can’t wait to see what new maths skill we will be learning next!
We have also had a great time exploring our personal History through looking at how we change from babies to children. We loved playing our ‘Guess the Baby’ game where we even saw baby pictures of our teachers! We loved exploring how we all changed but also looking at how we could look for clues in the photos to figure out which baby was each of our friends.
We were lucky the sun has been shining more now as it meant we could go on a Scientific exploration in Forest School and hunt for Minibeasts! We loved walking around the woodland area spotting butterflies and bees and trying to find ants and woodlice under our basecamp logs.
We are loving how sunny and warm it is getting now which has meant more time spent outside, playing in our new and improved water and sand areas and making lots of fun obstacle courses in the outdoor classroom.
We can’t wait to see what new adventures we will have this Summer!
