We've been on a treasure hunt!

How does it feel?

This week in Literacy the children are starting to learn the story 'Don't put your finger in the jelly Nelly!'  Mrs Prosser and Mrs Solomon really wanted to put their fingers in the jelly. The other adults in the room tried to stop them but they did it anyway, much to the shock and excitement of the children.

As a class we read the story together and then created a story map to help us remember the story. In small groups this week we will be putting our fingers into the different food items from the story and finding words to describe how they feel.

Attached below are two documents with a small selection of the photos from today. 

Our first week in reception!

We have had great fun getting to know the children this week. They have all settled in really well and we are looking forward to the year ahead. The children have started to learn about the routines we follow in Reception and have impressed us all with their positive attitudes. We have started to make new friends and have loved playing outside in the garden. The children were so amazing we even managed to fit in a Dance lesson in the hall. Bravo!

Magic Beans!

Our topic in class this half term is Traditional Tales, we have been reading the story Jack and the Beanstalk. When we were tidying up last Friday some beans were found in the classroom the children thought they could be magic. Mrs Solomon and Mrs Prosser said that there was no such thing as magic beans and threw the beans across the classroom. Well would you believe by Monday morning  some a beanstalk had grown in both classrooms. Maybe they were real!?!

WOW! WOW! WOW! What a morning! Today the children in Willow and Oak class met with Graham Woollard and Sue Woollard. As we entered the hall we heard the sounds of dinosaurs and saw palm trees and model dinosaurs laid out around the room.

We learnt all about the different types of dinosaurs, how big they were and we even got a chance to go and look and touch the different models around the room, thinking about their different features.

Graham told us about how the dinosaurs became extinct and how still to this day palaeontologists are discovering new facts.

Towards the end of the morning we got to look closely as some dinosaur bones that are now fossils. Graham explained to us how they become fossilised. We even got to hold one!

Chinese New Year Celebrations

Last week Oak and Willow Class invited their grown-ups to join them to celebrate Chinese New Year. The children and their parents worked in small groups and tried a variety of different activities. The children put their cutting skills to the test to make a paper chain dragon. They then had an opportunity to colour a picture of the animal from the year they were born.

Next the children had a go at writing the numbers 0 through to 10 in Mandarin. It was very challenging but lots of fun, zero was very tricky! Then they got the opportunity to try some Chinese food, on offer was Chinese noodles, vegetable spring rolls and prawn crackers. The children talked about how the food tasted and which was their favourite. The prawn crackers the firm favourite from both classes and the children enjoyed finishing them off at snack time.

The final activity was to perform a dragon dance around the playground with the grown- ups using drums and triangles to create a beat for us to dance to. The children had lots of fun especially when it was the grown-ups turn to have a go!

There was a great turn out from parents and the children in both Oak and Willow class really enjoyed the morning and we hope you all did too!

Thank you for coming to celebrate with us and we look forward to sharing our work with you all again soon.