Reception (4-5 years)

This week we have been learning about people who help us, at home, in school and the wider community.

‘Firefighters put out fires and use the hoses with water’ Theon

‘Police Officers keep us safe’ Aria

‘Paramedics take poorly and hurt people to hospital’ Elias

We have had a lot of fun role playing at people who help us. We have put out fires, arrested people, made pets better and fixed lots of things as builders.

We explored colour mixing; we found out that red and yellow make orange.

We also created our own map of a town to show all the places in our community where we meet people who help us including a doctors, school, fire station and our homes.

We noticed that the sunflowers in our garden had died so we harvested the seeds. In the spring we will plant these seeds to grow more sunflowers. We can’t wait! 

We have been thinking about our families. We have shared the books The Great Big Book of Families and Families, Families, Families. We found out that there are many kinds of families, but they are all special to us.

We enjoyed drawing, making and talking about our families in a variety of ways.

We also talked about our class being our school family and painted our portraits to display. We looked at our different features and talked about how we have many similarities and differences but are all special.

We have been making lots of new friends and a lot of fun collaborating to collage them.

We were very excited to go to Forest School for the first time. We met the Grandmother Tree, learnt about keeping ourselves safe in the forest and the important rule of ‘No pick, no lick, be careful with a stick’. We had so much fun climbing trees, making mud pies, tackling the rope bridge and exploring the forest. We can’t wait until next week!

This week we have been enjoying plenty of activities both inside and outside to strengthen our muscles which will help us improve our ability to write.

We have used our large muscles in our body to help develop our whole body and coordination and our small muscles in our hands and fingers to develop precise movements.

We have welcomed all our new Reception children into school and have been so proud of how they have settled in.

We have been learning school routines such as sitting on the carpet for registration, lining up for lunch and what we need to do at tidy up time. All the children are settling well into school life, making new friends and having so much fun!