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'?