WOW Word Building

This week the children have been engaging with lots of word building activities to ensure we can get the most out of our writing. They loved using the magnetic boards, shaving foam and rice tray for this, lots of messy fun was had. 

As well as writing and reading the…

We've had another leafy day in 1MM. We went across to the park to look for more signs of autumn and found lots of sycamore seeds. We think the squirrels had all the acorns! We then came back to school and write factfiles about autumn. 

We had a great time today learning about different types of playground games Victorian children would have played. Sue taught us to sing 'Here we go Looby Loo', 'John Kanaka-naka' and the circle game 'all around the village'. 

We also had a go at marbles, tiddly winks and pick-up-sticks. 

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Maddison brought in a leaf this morning that had fluttered through her window. The children said it was just like Laura's Star. We then went on a leaf hunt and had great fun. Albert said the wind was wild! 

We we came back to the classroom and wrote sentences about our hunt, did leaf…

This half term we will be developing our gymnastics skills in PE. 

Today we had great fun pretending to be astronauts in training.  We had to use our senses to taste, describe and identify the mysterious foods, and then select which foods we think would taste good in space.  We tried a wide variety of foods including apple sauce, tortilla wraps, lemon juice and…

A Busy Week

This week in reception the children have been enjoying lots of exciting writing activities. They loved using the cars and paint to practice the letter formation of the new sounds we have been looking at in phonics and really enjoyed building words with our building bricks. 
The…

This week we have been reading the book 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes'...

Just like Mr Wolf, we had to write our shopping lists...

Then off we went to the shop to buy our ingredients....

We then had lots of fun in the kitchen making the pancakes....

The best part was eating our…

Thank you for your all donations to the McMillan cancer research coffee morning. We had a great morning!

Miss. Everest

We had a great day at the zoo learning about the different animals. We identified lots of mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and amphibians (although these were a bit tricky to find). 

Here are some pictures from our inspirational day! Thank you to everyone that came to inspire us! 

Yesterday we had lots of fun when Kelly from 'Hands On Animals' came to visit us.  We had the chance to observe animals that were vertebraes and animals that were invertebrate and compared how they move. Some of us were brave enough to hold the animals!