Fairies and Dinosaurs

 Hi Reception Families,

It's been another epic week in Reception. This week we've have been firmly rooted in 'make believe' and it's been wonderful!

We have been learning about fairies, we've thought about the different types of fairies there could be, and every child made a fairy garden to bring home. We also had a wonderful making magic potions.

This week in Expressive Art and Design we have been studying flowers, drawing what we see then mixing our own colours and painting our designs. I was very impressed as the children shared their knowledge of colour with each other, it has been lovely to witness such collaborative learning.

We are continuing to develop our drawing skills, it is wonderful to see how confident the children are becoming.

With the weather being better we have had a wonderful time playing outside, we've had a trip to the library as well.

Now all week there has been much excitement about the arrival of the mystery eggs, on Monday we made some 'eggcellent' observations and predictions about what may be inside the egg, on Tuesday we began our watch of the egg in the classroom, there were even some reports of it moving!

On Wednesday the egg went missing, children theorised that the egg had been taken by Tree Elves!

On Thursday we had a wonderful day with Jam the T-Rex, we really enjoyed digging for fossils. On Friday we met our tiny baby dinosaur, we made more predictions on what will happen next! So watch this space!

In Drawing Club we read Never give a T-Rex a book our words for Get up Stand up were:

Intelligent, Thrilled, Sanctuary, Stomp and Massive.

In Maths we were focusing on number bonds to 10

We also had some great matches in Basketball with Coach Luca.

Moving our attention to next week.

Drawing Club: The Mitten (Ukraine folktale) 

Power Maths: Number bonds to 10 

Understanding the World: Jack and the Beanstalk.

Please remember that we break up for half term on Thursday.

Children will be assessed for Read Write Inc next week and we will inform you of any group changes the first week back after half term.

I am sorry that home learning did not come home on Friday we will give it out Monday and children can return it after half term. 

As ever if there is anything you would like to discuss please do get in touch.

Ms. Evans and the Reception Team.