A shift in the Art area this half term brought in a Textiles area as additional to the existing offer! Initially it was just the girls who joined us for this but since the arrival of the superhero capes we’ve had lots more interest from everybody!
We love being outside in Reception and we’ve been so busy recently planting, deadheading and watering despite the chilly weather! Every week the children help me to clean out the guinea pigs and they’re now so good at this that they can do it by themselves! We have picture instructions which help us remember what to do! We’ve planted potatoes, mint and strawberries at the classroom door and other herbs around the outdoor area! We can’t wait for everything to pop up now the tulips, daffodils and hyacinths are passed. Lots of the insects have been very busy too and in the last week we’ve encountered spiders and their webs, caterpillars, bumble bees and worms!
We’re getting more and more confident to apply our phonics and story-telling skills in sentences! Here’s some of our walk to school posters, sentences and colourful semantics work!
We’ve been chatting all about Easter this week in Reception – we’ve had so many questions to ask the Easter bunny who left us a post box! A visit to church and a visit from Reverend Lottie in our own classroom brought the Easter story to life for us. We made some Easter nests, reminding ourselves about instructions and using our cooking skills.
Although we love playing in the Reception sandpit it has been looking a little bare recently! Today we started helping Mr Carter move the …8 TONS of sand into the pit. We didn’t even manage to move half a bag and we had already moved 7 wheelbarrows full. Havyar was great at smoothing the sand out in the barrow to fit in as much sand as possible! Lots of children were keen to help us load the barrow with sand!
