Blog by Tag: Reception

We loved dressing up as our favourite book characters today for World Book Day.  We especially loved sharing our favourite books with our Year 6 buddies. 

Well done Y6 for being such fine role models for our brilliant Reception class for today's World Book Day!

Today reception discussed where food comes from, specifically chocolate (our favourite). We talked about how hard the farmers work to harvest the coco beans to send to the factories to make our delicious chocolate. We then found out that some farmers don't get paid nearly enough for all their hard…

Reception class have loved their spa day today. We learnt the art of relaxing and helping our mind feel happy and calm.

This week we have been learning about heavy and light. Today we investigated which numicon pieces were heavier or lighter than 5. 

Reception listened to different pieces of music and used paint to record their emotional responses, creating exciting and expressive paintings. 

Reception class collected materials and objects from nature to make painting tools; the children used these tool with mud to create abstract and figurative art. 

Reception class had so much fun this week learning about the new Lunar Year. We began the week learning all about China and how it was similar and different to England. We then learnt about Emperor Jade's 'Great Race' and found out this year was the year of the Rabbit. We have spent the week…