The caterpillars have arrived in our Reception class today.
The children selected and named a caterpillar.
They all have a pet caterpillar to look after.
Wow ! How exciting.
Reception enjoyed being outdoors in the sunshine ☀️ They searched under logs, lifting stones and digging in the soil in search of bugs. They eventually found spiders, centipedes, ants and worms
Reception showed off their balance and jumping skills in the outdoors yesterday.
During the warm up session they moved around the garden area, stopping to hold their favourite balance pose. They performed a number of jumps, which included : star jump, tuck jump and pencil jump.
Reception thought about Christian festivals celebrated during Easter. We decorated a cross to make links to signs of spring.
We placed our Easter crosses in the garden.
In RE, reception have been learning about Good Friday. As part of our learning we discussed what happened on Good Friday and the symbols of Easter. We LOVED that this involved toasting and eating hot cross buns. It also linked lovely to our Signs of Spring topic.
Reception explored artwork by the famous artist.
“Giuseppe Arcimboldo.”
We then used our cutting and positional skills to create a piece of artwork in his style. Can you guess his artwork style?
Reception had the absolute pleasure of travelling to Low Barns Farm, in Hexham, today! What a day we had… There was something very special about this farm – it’s a working farm, so we were very excited to become farmers for the day!
Across the day, in addition to keeping their eyes peeled for all the signs of spring, they stayed busy helping around the farm. Not only did we feed the lambs, we also groomed the horses, fed the guinea fowl & hens, collected eggs & met the farmyard cats!
We had lots of sleepy children (and staff) on our return and it’s no wonder, it’s a very tiring job being a farmer, don’t you know?!
Reception began their new PE unit today ‘ ‘Gymnastics.’
We explored different rolling techniques and developed our balancing skills during the session.
Our mover and shaker for Maths is Fibonacci. Yesterday, reception looked at his theory of patterns and spirals. We created our own patterns in the different areas. We could talk about patterns we noticed and our own patterns and spirals we made.
As part of their ready steady grow topic, reception exploring printing. They used a variety of fruit and vegetables to print and make their own prints. Children explored using different colour. We talked about the different fruits and vegetables and the textures.
