UTW AL - Observational drawings of Animals
This week Reception have been learning about African animals. The children have discussed and observed the features of the animals and what they need in their environment.
We began drawing in pencil, looking closely at the shapes and lines needed. We then independently chose the colours needed…
Maths AL - 3D Shapes
The children have recapped their learning of 2D shape names and their properties. This week we have been focusing on 3D shape names and recognising them in the environment. We have looked at images, we have been on shape hunts and coloured lots of different shapes, we then counted how many shapes…
Writing AL - African Animals
This week we have been learning about Africa. The children have looked at the different animals and wrote about what they can see in the African Savanna. We have been focusing on sentences and being able to use a full stop and sometimes a capital letter at the start of our sentence.
It’s…
Gardening for our planting area
We have enjoyed planting seeds in our gardening area outside. We talked about the different hinge that our seeds will need to grow, dug the soil ourselves and watered our planted seeds. Now we just have to wait for them to grow!
Outside
This morning our butterflies were finally ready to fly away. We took them over to the grass and took them out one by one to let them fly away. We said goodbye and enjoyed watching where they decided to go. Some went on the grass and some flew straight in the air!
We have butterflies!
Nursery were extremely excited to come into school today to discover that two of our cocoons have opened and we now have two butterflies! We talked about what our butterflies need to eat and how at the moment their wings are wet and need time to dry out so that they can fly. We also talked about…
Andy Goldsworthy
This week Nursery are studying the artist Andy Goldsworthy. Yesterday we talked about Andy Goldsworthy and discussed his sculptures, the natural materials that he liked to use, where he produced his artwork and the shapes that we could see in his designs.
Today we went on a hunt around the…
Tasting our cress
Our cress has finally finished growing! Today we were very excited to taste our cress. it was a little bit strong on its own and some of us weren’t keen, but when we mixed it with egg mayonnaise it tasted much better! We recalled the steps that we had taken to grow our cress and we’re proud of our…
Butterfly life cycle
Wow! It was very exciting when we came into school and discovered that our caterpillars have now entered the next stage of their life cycle! They are in their cocoons and so we had to transfer them into the butterfly net. We talked about how long they might be in their cocoon for and realised that…
Our crown creations
Wow! Look at our wonderful crowns that we have created for King Charles’ Coronation! We talked about what the word coronation means and what we are celebrating so that the children understood why today is a special day. Lots of us recognised King Charles when we looked at some pictures!
We’re going on a shape hunt!
Today we have enjoyed going on a shape hunt! Firstly, we named all of the shapes that we know using our flash cards. We then identified these shapes in our environment, discovering that they were the shape of lots of our everyday items! We also talked about how many sides each of our shapes…
Forming our names
Today we enjoyed searching for all of the letters in our names on the bottle lids and putting them in order to spell our names. We then used the paper to form the letters in our name - we have been practicing doing this using in beautiful handwriting using the correct letter formation!
some of…