China, great walls and pandas!

 Hello Reception Families,

It's been another busy week in Reception.

We have continued our learning focus on China this week. We have learnt about Chinese culture, the Chinese Flag and the Great Wall of China.

We worked together to build the Great Wall of China. It was wonderful to observe the children build their own Great Wall outside

In fact all our building outside has been amazing this week, we have enhanced our building by tying knots to keep it in place.

We've made Panda pictures, twisting our brushes to make it look like fur!

We've also continued to explore Chinese radicals, this week moving on from numbers on to writing.

In Drawing Club we have been focusing on The Magic Paintbrush, we have also made our own magic paintbrushes in Make and Create.

Our Chinese kitchen and fantastic dragon drawings!

Our words for Drawing Club this week were:

'If you are a king or a queen you are 'Regal'

When you are a bit scary you are 'Fierce'

When you need to run away you 'Flee'

When you are really hungry you are 'Ravenous' 

All children should have brought a pattern worksheet home with them today, please let me know Monday, if they haven't got one.

Children have really enjoyed this simple  fine motor activity this week, all you need is a colander and some pipe cleaners and you thread them through the holes, children might enjoy doing this activity at home!

Moving our attention to next week.

Understanding the World: Fairies and The Elves and Shoemaker.

Power Maths: Measurement 

Drawing Club: Never give a T-Rex a Book

A word about snack: Snack needs to be a healthy snack, the government recommends fruit or vegetables, we are seeing an increase of high sugar sweet snacks which are not within the our healthy eating guidelines.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all at parent's evening next Monday or Tuesday Evening. I can't wait to share all the fantastic progress children are making.

Have a fantastic weekend

Ms. Evans and the Reception Team