Priory Park

We had SO much fun at Priory Park...

Ice Marbles!

Keeping cool in Reception with giant ice marbles, salt and colour! What fun!

Ice lollies!

What a hot day it was today! 

We made ice lollies to help us cool down...can you tell an adult how we made them - use the pictures to help you remember. 

What happened to the water when we put it in the freezer? How did it change? What happened when we left the chocolate in the sun? Why did it change?

Dancing Raisins

Do raisins float or sink?  Can we make them dance? What happens if we put them in fizzy water? 

Can you remember why the fizzy water made the raisins float and dance around? Why don't you comment below and tell us! 

What has been your favourite water investigation this week?

Mini Golf

We had fun today learning how to play mini-golf. We used a putter to control the ball and hit it into the hoop. 

Fantastic Fun at Sports Day

RECEPTION FITNESS FUN

What a fantastic Fitness Week we are having so far in Reception.  We have enjoyed taking part in lots of different activities ... learning how to salsa, playing passing games and having some 'wacky races'!.  We have been having lots of fun and keeping healthy too!  Look at the photographs of us enjoying ourselves. We are looking forward to boules and mini-golf later in the week too!

Here we are filling out tally-charts to find out our favourite ways to exercise.  What exercise do you like to do the best?

 

 

Salsa Superstars!

 



 

 

We have made a track in our learning garden and have been

practising how to race really fast!

 

 



 

Some of us built an obstacle course outside and

we climbed and walked across it - we needed to be good at balancing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fitness Week - Salsa!

Wow we have had so much fun today on the first day of FITNESS WEEK! 

This afternoon we had a go at salsa dancing...



We enjoyed it so much when we came back from our workshop we chose to carry on salsa dancing in our 'get busy' time - We organised ourselves into partners - some of us even made salsa costumes! We loved moving to the music! 

Fitness Week

Are you ready for fitness week? 

ICT superstars!!

This week in RL we used a program called JIT to make beautiful pictures. We were challenged to write  a sentence about our picture. I had my socks blown off by your typing skills - *you were all superstars!*

Can you remember which button on the keyboard makes a space between the letters? How do you get rid of a letter you don't want? Why don't you comment below to practise your typing :)

Making Waves!

We loved dressing up as pirates as part of our new topic 'Making Waves'

We have had a great time this week adding and subtracting with Pirate Pete's treasure...Can you remember the different strategies we can use to add and subtract? 

We love singing along to this pirate song in the mornings. Why don't you practice at home. Can you think of your own pirate saying at the end? 

Minibeast puppets

Today we have been busy cutting, rolling, folding, sticking, taping and stapling ...Look at our fantastic minibeast puppets! 

Minibeasts

This week we have gone minibeast mad in Reception! 

Have a look at our amazing clay minibeasts! 

We had lots of fun today building bug hotels  - we thought carefully about the kind of environment the bugs might like to live in  - we can't wait to have a look tomorrow and see who has moved in! 

I wonder if we will see any of these insects...

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

We've been enjoying this song that teaches us all about the life cycle of a butterfly.




We pretended we were butterflies hatching out of cocoons...

Can you tell an adult at home all about the life cycle of a butterfly? 

Hello Reception! This week we are reading the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Take a look at this!

Colouring flowers!

We have been busy scientists this week in Reception. We have been learning about the different parts of a flower and what they do. We wanted to test and see if the stem really does carry water up to the petals. We decided to put white flowers into coloured water and see what happened. 

We added different dyes to the water. We talked about what we thought might happen and made some predictions... 

"I think the flowers will die if we put coloured water in"

"I think that the petals might change colour - pink, no I think blue - because the water is blue."

"I think the one that is half in the red water and half in the blue will look like a British flower"

"I think it will just be the same tomorrow because it takes ages for plants to grow"


We were amazed to see the results!

Can you explain to an adult why the flowers changed colour? 

Do you know the different parts of a flower?

Percy's Tools

We loved using Percy's tools to make picture frames! 

RL News Report: After the Storm

This week we have been enjoying our new Percy story - 'After the Storm'. If you'd like to watch the video of 'After the Storm' visit our literacy videos page by clicking on the tab at the top. 

This morning we got a phone call from Percy who told us there had been a terrible storm in the nature garden last night! We sent a team of news reporters to have a look at the damage .... We also had a go at writing some fantastic newspaper reports as well. 

Have you ever seen a storm? Were you outside? Can you describe what it was like? Why don't you comment below and tell us about it.

RDW Rescue Party

RDW Rescue Party

We have enjoyed reading the story about Percy the Park Keeper called The Rescue Party, where rabbit got stuck down a well.  We sent a rescue party to our Wildlife Area to help Percy help rabbit to escape ... but she was stuck up a tree instead!  We did teamwork to decide how to rescue rabbit and worked together to get her down from the tree.  Look at what great teamwork we have been doing and how we share our ideas with one-another. 
 

We have been learning all about plants! Have a go at singing this song!

Subtract

We love joining in with this taking away song...

Can you remember the action and the sign for 'take away'? 

Percy the Park Keeper

Last week we started our new topic 'Percy the Park Keeper and his Friends'.

We enjoyed reading the story  - The Rescue Party.  Poor Rabbit got stuck down a well. We thought carefully about the best way to rescue rabbit. We worked really hard to write rescue plans and then we sent some rescue parties up to the wildlife area to have a go at rescuing rabbit from different places. 

Here are some children in RL having a go at rescuing rabbit from the well. 

You can watch the video to see how rabbit manged to escape in the story...

Uganda

Hello lovely Reception! 

I hope you have all had a fantastic break and are looking forward to coming back to school on Tuesday! 

I have enjoyed a lovely trip to Uganda, in Africa.  I was so happy to take with me all of the shoes and clothes that you and other children at Woodmansterne brought in. Here are some pictures of the children enjoying their new shoes. 

School in Uganda can be very different to school in England.  

Here is one of the classrooms. What can you see that is the same and what is different from our classroom? 

In Uganda the children enjoy a drink called porridge during break time. What do we have for our snack at school?

The children have to wash their hands first just like you do. These children are washing their hands outside using rain water that has been collected in a tin can. 

The children enjoy drawing and playing football just like lots of children at Woodmansterne do. 


I can't wait to hear what you have been up to in the holidays. Why don't you comment below and tell everyone. 

Miss Lunn :) 

I can double!

Sir Charlie's Stinky Socks

Today we enjoyed our new story 'Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Really Big Adventure' by Kristina Stephenson.

Here is a video of the story for you to enjoy at home.

Hotseating the wicked witch!

WHY did you lock Rapunzel in the tower?

WHEN are you going to let her out?

WHERE is the prince?

Rapunzel - witch traps!

We have been having lots of fun learning about the story of Rapunzel. Today we decided we wanted to free Rapunzel from her tower. We thought of ways we could help her and decided to make a witch trap! 

This afternoon we had a fantastic time building traps to catch the witch. We worked together and then took it in turns to test our traps.

Once we had caught the witch we had a go at asking her some questions. Can you remember why the witch locked Rapunzel in the tower?
                                                           

 " When the water goes onto the witch it will make the witch melt" - Dylan and Noah

"When you press this button it will help us to find the witch - this bit is a computer screen it can tell us where the witch is. " - Khaira and Aimee

"You throw out this bit that looks like a plane but hold onto the other end of the string. When it touches her it will electrocute the witch."  - Joe

"When the witch is walking past you have to pull the string and it will fall down on her and get her. You've got to hold it up - or you could use this stand to hold it if you don't want to be too near the witch. You can't let her get you." - Khalil

"It didn't work it was too heavy" - Angell

3d Shapes

Last week we were learning about 3d shapes. Here is a song to help us remember some of the new shape names that we have learnt. 

 


Can you see any 3d shapes hiding around your home? Why don't you comment below and tell us what shapes you can see. 

I found a cylinder and a sphere in my house!

World Book Day - RL

We had so much fun on World Book Day! 

Check out our amazing retelling of 'We're going on a Bear Hunt'!

World book day!!

We had a wonderful time during world book day! We shared books with our parents and did some really cool reading activities in the hall!

Rhyme

This week we are learning about rhyme

Can you remember what it means if words rhyme? 

Which rhyming words can you spot in this video? 



Rhyme challenge...  can you spot any rhyming pairs in the pictures below?

Why don't you comment and tell us which rhyming pairs you can see.

Chicks!

This morning in Reception we had a look at Year 1's chicks! 

Year 1 had 10 eggs. The eggs were in an incubator to keep them warm. The eggs all hatched and now there are 10 chicks.

Some of the chicks we were looking at were only 1 day old! We used our quiet voices so we didn't scare the baby chicks. 

We used our gentle hands to hold and stroke the chicks. How did the chicks feel when you touched them? Can you think of any good words to describe the chicks? 

We noticed that there was a light bulb in the chicks house - can you remember why the light bulb was there? 

Have a look at the YEAR 1 BLOG to hear more about these lovely chicks.