Reception Weekly Blog (17.5.24)

Date: 16th May 2024 @ 9:36pm

Another wonderful week in Reception!

We started this week introducing our marvellous focus children and their specials interests. In Pinewood’s classroom, there were dinosaurs to discover and in Sand Dune’s classroom we were immersed in performing, dancing and delicious Ghanaian food!

Inspired by last week’s arrival of a beautiful bird’s nest, we continued to learn more about animals that hatch from eggs and animals that are born live. The children blew us away with their knowledge, they worked together as a team to sort the animals into the correct group. They were so enthusiastic and even had a go independently throughout the afternoon.

It was only right, whilst learning about dinosaurs that Rosie the Tortoise came to see us. The children were amazed to find out that Tortoise’s roamed the earth at the same time as dinosaurs. We were so impressed with how kind and caring the children were to another wonderful creature in the Reception setting.

Rosie spent two days with us, during this time, the children fed her and spent time developing their senses, feeling her shell and describing how she felt. On Wednesday, we were amazed to see our budding artists sketch, draw, colour and add finer detail to their own observation drawings of Rosie.

We read “The Tortoise and The Hare”, a classic story that teaches us the value of perseverance and patience. The children loved discussing the story, and how the tortoises steady pace led to its success.

The children will be bringing home their very own ‘mini greenhouse’ today, which we created and planted a couple of weeks ago. Some have grown and grown and are ready to be transplanted and grow in a new home. Others have not, but this has been a brilliant topic of conversation, we have lots of spare’ runaway peas’ that the children can take home and try again.  

In maths this week, counting beyond 20 was an important focus. In the English language, ‘teen’ numbers do not follow a logical pattern, it is only when we count beyond 20 that the pattern of numbers begins to become clear. For our youngest children to develop the structure of counting, they need lots of experience of counting to larger numbers, and understanding the pattern of ‘ones’. At home, practise counting together as part of your daily routine. For example, use jumps or steps to measure a distance within your journey to school.

This week's Speed Minute and Red Word films are: 

Speed Minute
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/AokFIbNw/SlQ6Mby5

Red Words
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/krlqAiKl/3wviRSDY  

Next week, we look forward to learning about two more special children and their interests, pirates, water and weddings!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend with your loved ones, we look forward to another busy week next week as the children prepare for a well-deserved relax and re-charge.

The Reception Team