Reception have been busy with their Christmas Enterprise STEM. Linked to our topic puppets and pop-ups, we have looked at puppets and made our own.

We have been testing our cutting, colouring, painting and gluing skills as well as using split pins to join and move our puppets! We have been super impressed with Reception today!

Keep your eyes peeled for them at our Christmas Fayre.

Reception braved the cold and we went out into our garden. We noticed the tuff tray had iced over. Reception loved exploring the pieces of ice and describing what they noticed and why it happened.

In phonics, Reception have been looking at the digraphs ‘sh’ and ‘th’. This has been super tricky but our super writers rose to the challenge and could write the digraphs independently and could write some words containing the digraphs.

This week we are looking at shapes with 4 sides. For our task we had to add shapes to our house. We identified the 2D shapes and their properties.

In planning time, some children recalled their knowledge of 4 and 5. They made Number Blocks and independently wrote the numbers.

Reception continued their computing this week by programming their own bee-bot. Children had to draw arrows in their books to show what instructions they were going to input. Reception have loved this part of their Marvellous Machines topic.

Reception got into the Christmas festive spirit today! We have a gorgeous day visiting Fenwick’s window and McDonald’s. To finish our day off we loved playing in the snow .

Reception loved the worship challenge this week. We had lots of fun following  instructions to create Christingles for the Christingle service. We also learnt lots of facts about the Christingle.

The snow hasn’t stopped reception get into the festive spirit, this week – it’s helped! Yesterday, reception wrote their letters to Santa and then designed their own Christmas stamp. The children then identified how much their stamp would cost and practised their number formation when discussing money.

Lots of fantastic learning links to phonics, maths and EAD. Buddy the elf then collected our letters to take to the North Pole!

All of the belly laughing was happening in reception this morning during their bingo session! Some of our children battled it out to get a line and then a full house, eager to shout either ‘BINGO’ or ‘PARTY TIME’ – the children’s choices entirely! Who knew learning our tricky words could be so fun!