This week, we have been excited to meet the ducklings! They came to school as 5 eggs and hatched over the last few days. We looked at their different features and learnt why they have webbed feet. They were very cute and made tiny cheeping sounds as they can't quack yet! It was very exciting, but we were all very gentle when handling them.
This half term, Reception have had great fun exploring lots of different traditional tales. We have been exploring different characters and even trying to write our own stories! We are improving our phonics and writing skills every week! Please have a look at some of our wonderful writing!
This week the children have been busy making their own fairytale castles. We used different colours and sizes of shapes to make the castles. The children practised their fine motor skills to carefully cut out the shapes that they needed to add doors, windows and towers to their castles. Well done everyone these look amazing!
In the last few weeks, Reception have been very busy! We had lots of rehearsals for our Nativity Play which led to 2 very sparkly performances! We also baked mince pies as a special treat afterwards!
We have been writing to Santa (a very important job!) and preparing Christmas cards and decorations. We are definitely feeling in the festive spirit and can't wait to celebrate with all our loved ones in the coming weeks!
In reception, preparations are well underway for our Christmas production of Baarmy Bethlehem! The children are very excited and have been singing their hearts out!
We have also been practising writing sentences and captions and are beginning to use a full stop. We know lots of sounds now!
In Maths, we have been practising making 5 and also sorting objects into groups.
We can't wait to see you at our performances!
We have been exploring different festivals in Reception. Firstly, we looked at Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot. We made fireworks pictures and counted fireworks. After that, we looked at the Festival of Remembrance. We have been making poppies from loose parts and thinking about fallen soldiers. We also explored these festivals in Drawing Club.
This week we have been learning about Black History. We looked at some books that have black characters in. We talked about what makes people different.
After that, we researched Alfred Cralle who invented the ice cream scoop. We learnt a song about ice creams and talked about our favourite flavours.
At Roebuck, we are historians!
Reception have been exploring Creature Corner as part of our Forest School sessions. Working in pairs, the children went to the forest to collect natural items. Using playdough as the body, the children used twigs to create the spikes and the stones for eyes and noses. At Roebuck, we are artists.
We have had a fantastic start to Reception!
We have been learning how to use the different areas in our environment and trying really hard with our tidying up!
This week, we had our first PE lesson where we pretended to be dinosaurs. We practised taking our shoes and socks off and putting them back on.
We can't wait to see what else Reception has in store for us!
On Thursday, we had a lovely time at our Fathers Day Event!
We went out onto the field and enjoyed challenging our male (and female) carers to lots of different sporting activities. These included running races, a beanbag stamp, target throws and more! Everyone had a great time and the competition was high!
Thank you for attending. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
This half term Reception have been very busy developing their fine motor and writing skills. The children have really enjoyed the different books we have focused on for Drawing Club this half term. We have looked at different Traditional Tales including Jack and the Beanstalk and Chicken Licken. The children have drawn some amazing pictures as well as some great sentences. We have very proud of all the hard work the children have done. Well done Reception. At Roebuck we are Authors
This week in our Reception classes we have been reading the text 'The Gingerbread Man'. The children have all taken part in a fun science experiment involving gingerbread. In this experiment the children observed what happened when they placed a gingerbread man in water, milk, oil and vinegar. We learnt lots of tricky scientific concepts like buoyancy, absorption, and material changes in a fun and engaging way. We also acted like scientists and made predictions about what we thought would happen. Some of us thought the gingerbread man might explode, change shape, change size, dissolve or sink. We had great fun observing the changes in the gingerbread man over the day and at the end of the day we found that the gingerbread man in oil changed the least, and the gingerbread man in water changed the most. This one lost most of its colour and became very soft. Well done Oak and Willow class for another busy week of learning. At Roebuck, we are scientists!
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