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 :)