Paul Klee inspired portraits
The Year 1 and 2 children have completed their art project for the half term by creating their own portraits inspired by Paul Klee.
Are plants the same all year round?
Year 1 and 2 children have been identifying and naming evergreen and deciduous trees. They have also been working scientifically measuring leaves and comparing them.
Leaf Hunting
As part of our learning about plants we enjoyed a leaf hunt this afternoon. The children searched for different leaves, comparing and noticing similarities and differences. We had great discussions about the different trees and identified which were evergreen and which were deciduous.
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Tricky Words and Sounds
Our fabulous Reception children hare busy learning tricky words and their sounds. We are so proud of them and their progress, they are superstars!
Super counting children
Our Reception children have been enjoying lots of opportunities to develop their understanding of number this week.
Autumn Wiggles
The children have been improving their fine motor skills this past week using play dough to make patterns.
I didn’t manage to take many photos, we were too busy having fun learning!
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Sequin Pumpkins
Our Recent children have been using their fine motor skills to pick up sequins with tweezers (it needs a lot of concentration, it’s not easy!) and place them on the patterns on the pumpkins.
Observational Drawing
Our Reception children have been looking very closely and observing details today. They talked about the different things they could see and drew pictures.
1,2,3 that’s me!
Our Reception children are looking closely at the numbers 1,2 and 3 at the moment.
They are learning, to count, recognise the numerals, write the numbers, subitise the amounts, learn one more and one less.
Holidays in the past
In our history lessons this half term the children have been idnvestigating the question ‘what is history?’
After looking at things that have happened in thier own lives in the past they began to look at holidays and investigate what holidays in the past were like.
This week Mr Proctor…
Pat a cake, Pat a cake
Our Reception children have been learning the rhyme ‘Pat a cake, Pat a cake baker’s man’ so I created an activity where they made dough cakes and marked them with the letters sounds they have been learning in our phonics sessions.
They had great fun practicing lots of skills for fine motor…
Chop chop
Our Reception children practise using scissors often to develop fine motor skills. Here are a few photographs of one activity they did this week …