Happy Mother's Day

We spent all week making our special mother's day paintings. We were very excited to do some special 'magical' painting for the background. All you need is a white crayon and some watered down paint and you can reveal your invisible drawings!

Than we made hand-prints with grey paint, trying to make out thumb stick out a bit so the elephant's trunk could meet with the mummy elephant.

We wrote our name on the back in our neatest writing for our special Mummies. We are so blessed!

We thought about what our mummies do for us. They do our hair nicely, cook beautiful dinners, give us cuddles, make us laugh, love and look after us, even when they feel poorly and tired, and so much more! Every day is a day to say thank you, but especially Mother's Day!

What other animals could you make using hand painting?

Be funny for money!

We had a great time last Friday dressing up 'silly' for Red Nose Day.

We did a sponsored fun run in the hall and had a great time being silly and cheering each other on!

Well done to our four silly winners of their wacky  races!

What a great way to raise money for people who haven't got as much as we have! We have so much to be thankful for!

Is it fair or unfair..?

Last week we started to think about halves, but in a way that the children could relate to! So, we looked at football teams and said whether the sides were fair or unfair. The children decided we needed to count each side's players to check they both had the same amount!

We then had team captains who we shared some monkeys out between. When we were happy that the teams were fair, we could cheer for each side!

They both have 2 monkeys each! That's the same! So half of 4 is 2.

Uh oh! That's not fair! She has 4 and he only has 2! It wasn't shared equally.

Yay! They both have 3 monkeys! Half of 6 is 3.

I made a cake and kindly cut it in half so I could share it with Mrs Curnow! Yummy!

We also went outside to do some races. Mrs Curnow needed some help getting the teams right though. It's a tricky business, but everyone helped by counting each team and making sure the sides were both the same and that the teams were fair. Half of 14 is... can you work it out?

I am good at...

We looked at photos from our time in Reception so far and said what was happening in the pictures and what the person in each one was showing they are good at. We are good at singing, dancing, reading, numbers, being kind, making people laugh, painting, building, laughing and so much more!

We then thought of something we feel we are really good at and drew a picture of ourselves doing that.

What do you think you are good at? Reception think we could help each other get better at things and encourage one another with kind words!

Where I belong

Having thought about where animals in the jungle live and why, we talked about what our homes are I like and who we live with. We drew a picture of our house and the people we live with. Some children listened to the sounds in words and wrote labels for their pictures.

We are so glad we have a place we can call 'home'; a place where we belong.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

I think you're canny
Wey aye, pet, it's true!

So, we had a think about what happens on February 14th and what Valentine's Day is. Some responses were - 'It's when you tell someone you love them', 'You give people cards and something nice' and 'You could draw a picture for someone you love'.

We then talked about someone we love, why we love them and what we could do to show them we love them. Children decided that saying something kind, asking them to play with you, giving them a hug or simply telling them you love them are all good ideas. 

We stuck tissue paper to both sides of two heart shapes and said whose name we wanted written on the heart - Mam, Dad, brothers, sisters, cousins, grandparents. Each child then said why they love that person. We are so blessed with people who love us - people who make delicious food for us, give amazing hugs, make us laugh, give us Saturday morning cuddles in bed, play with us and help us! The hearts then joined together to form a hanging decoration.

Jungle Explorers!

We made binoculars out of toilet and kitchen roll tubes so we could explore the jungle! We recalled all the different animals we have learnt about over the last few weeks and played a game with a talking partner where we took it in turns to describe an animal for our partner to guess.

Then we used our fantastic writing skills from phonics to write some clues for our chosen animal.

Peek-a-boo!