Welcome to life in Reception

 

We are excited to begin a wonderful learning journey where our creativity and confidence grows every day. In Reception, children learn through play and exploration that helps them develop important skills across all learning.  Every child is encouraged to become independent, kind and enthusiastic learner. 

                 Literacy                                                          

Funny Bones

Funnybones is a humorous, slightly spooky picture book that follows three skeletons — a big skeleton, a little skeleton, and a dog skeleton — who live “in a dark, dark house on a dark, dark hill.”

Every night, they come out to explore their town, play tricks, and have adventures under the moonlight. Despite being skeletons, they’re friendly, playful, and a little bit clumsy — more silly than scary.

We have learnt about out bodies. We described different parts of our bodies and we looked at our similarities and differences. We also continued learning sounds and started to blend.

  

                                  Maths 

In Maths, children were introduced to the language of more and fewer by comparing groups of up to 5 objects presented in different ways, including dice formation. They also learnt that groups of objects can have the same amount in them, even if they look different. Children were also introduced to shapes and their properties with a focus on rolling and stacking with 3D shapes, describing them and exploring their properties.

      

       

  Art  

Children create skeletons by gluing cotton buds onto the paper. They also drew skeletons using white chalk on black paper.

We made clay and salt dough Diyas (Diwali candle holders). Children rolled and shaped the dough into small lamp bowls, let them dry, then decorated them. 

Moreover, we looked at Rangoli patterns and we created our own ones.

              

                

Physical Education

Time to get our bodies moving with the theme Buses for the PE lesson. The children had to follow instructions and move safely when playing tagging games. We had to imagine we were driving buses holding onto a steering wheel jogging around the space following the teacher's instruction. 

                      

We also loved playing Tag Rugby with coach Paul

PSHE

 This term in PSHE we have been looking at Being Me In My World. Children learn about themselves, their feelings and their place in the wider world. We explore what makes us special and talk about the different ways we can make the classroom a happy and safe place for everyone. Through the PSHE lessons, we learn to recognise that we are part of a school community, we understand rules and routines that help us feel safe. By the end of the unit, the children will be able to talk about what makes them proud and how they can develop kindness and cooperation with others. 

      

 

  Thank you for taking the time to visit our Reception class page. We hope you've enjoyed finding out more about our learning journey. We are proud of how hard the children work and the wonderful progress they make!

Reception Team