This morning reception performed their spring show Jack and the Beanstalk and they were absolutely AMAZING! Confident, loud voices with beautiful singing and acting! We are so all incredibly proud of them!
This week we have been learning all about spring and growth! We observed the weather outside and looked at photos of us from winter. What has changed? We then planted sunflower seeds and wrote some fantastic instructions on planting a seed.
“It wouldn’t grow in spring because it’s icy and not loads of sunshine.” Leo
“We have to remember to water it because it won’t survive or grow all beautiful” Holly
“When it was winter I wore a hat to keep my head warm but I don’t now because it’s hot.” George
This week we have been retelling Jack and the Beanstalk using recently introduced vocabulary!
We used the vocabulary:
Enormous
Humongous
Suddenly
Gigantic
Angry
We created a story walk and we each walked the story verbally retelling it. We then ordered the story and again verbally retold it. Once we were secure with retelling the story we had a go at writing some of the key parts! Look at that gorgeous writing!
I am absolutely amazed by the incredible progress our wonderful reception children have made with their reading! We are now confidently chunking up longer words to support our reading, and some of us can even read them fluently! Our attitude towards reading has been fantastic – when we encounter something tricky, we don’t give up, we try again!
Camouflage Caterpillars
Yesterday afternoon we explored how caterpillars camouflage and hide from their predators. We made caterpillars from wool and hid them in the grass, we then challenged our friend to become a hungry bird and go seek our caterpillars.
“Caterpillars camouflage best in the grass and mud because they are green and black” Izabella
“They are the same colour as the grass and trees so they blend in. The caterpillars need to be camouflage because the birds are predators and carnivores.” Lewi
This week we introduced our new topic ‘Spring and Growing’. We read the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar and created a story map to help us re tell the story! We used story spoons to order the story and retell verbally. The children were amazing at using vocabulary such as lifecycle, chrysalis and change!
On Tuesday we were shocked to find real life caterpillars in our classroom, we are so excited to watch the lifecycle of a butterfly happen in our classroom!
we have also loved investigating bugs this week, we have asked so many questions about the similarities and differences in the bugs! ️
This week we have been looking at careers. We read the book ‘What Jobs Could you do?’.
We talked about things that make us happy to help support what job we could do.
For example
Izabella said she enjoys being with animals so she wants to be a zoo keeper.
Alex enjoys getting messy so he’d like to be a farmer.
Holly loves painting so she’d like to be an artist.
We talked about key skills when getting a job:
Passionate – doing something you enjoy
Communication – being a good listener and talker
Teamwork
Attendance
Punctuality – being on time every day
Ask your child what job they would like to do and why? What skills do they need for that job?
This week we have been writing all about everything we love!
We also performed an amazing Valentines show to our grown ups, all about St Valentine
and some gorgeous valentines wreaths
Class 2 have been using story stones to think of their own dinosaur facts! They were able to think of a fact, verbalise it, count the words and then write it down. They could also extend their thinking by explaining verbally more about their fact!
For example,
Alex told me “a stegosaurus has long spikes on his tail to fight away a Tyrannosaurus rex because he’s trying to eat him with his long, sharp teeth because he’s a carnivore”
Kai: “He hunts meat like other dinosaurs that’s why he has sharp claws.”
Layla G: “palaeontologists find the fossils, that’s how we know they were really here ages and ages ago.”
A fantastic reading morning spent with our parents who came along to this mornings PACT morning.
The children loved spending time with their grown ups and showing them what they get up to in their class ✨
