Yesterday Reception class had a very exciting and special delivery into their class.

We received 8 eggs in an incubator to look after and observe the changes that occur.

Yesterday, the children have been watching for cracks to appear.

Today has been a very cold day in our outdoor learning area.  The children were thinking about how cold it is for the animals outside.  So…this afternoon we decided to make bird feeders using cherrios and pipe cleaners. The children used the pipe cleaner to thread cherrios onto it and then they bent the pipe cleaner to make their bird feeder a shape. 

The children then went to the outdoor area to hang them in the trees for the birds to enjoy in the cold weather. 

This week the children have continued with story of Little Red Riding Hood in their Literacy lessons.  The children have read the next part of the story where Little Red Riding Hood is walking to her Grandma’s house through the woods.  We took the children to our school woods to find out what you can find in the woods, and learn about trees.

The children found out that in our woods there are leaves, tall trees, branches, and flowers beginning to grow.  The children looked at the trees and learnt that the trees have a trunk with bark on, branches and leaves. We made bark rubbings using wax crayons and paper. 

Today in PE we have started learning new skills. We have begun to learn about how to travel with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment. 

Today was our first Reception Welly Walk. For our first walk we walked to town and went shopping.

Yesterday, we started the story of Littke Red Riding Hood. 

In our Literacy work the children wrote shopping lists for Grandma’s basket. 

Then today on our Welly Walk we walked to town with our shopping list and bought the things we had on our list. 

Today Reception have had lots of fun learning about the snow: What it looks like, what it feels like, is it hot or cold, what can we make with the snow, what is the difference between ice and snow, which animals like the snow. 

We have started thinking about our new topic in Reception of Once Upon A Time which is based around Traditional Tales. 

On Wednesday we had a topic morning to introduce the first traditional tale we are going to be learning about….Little Red Riding Hood.

Our morning was themed all about the colour RED!

 We painted red picture, red playdough, red drawing, blowing strawberry bubbles, exploring red treasure bags, exploring red jelly, building with red bricks, and counting red ladybirds…  
    
    
    
    
    
    
 

Today we had a very special visitor in Reception….Father Christmas! 

We were very lucky he brought us all a present and we sand songs with him. 

On 20th December Nursery and Reception went to visit Cheshire Reindeer Lodge.

We learnt all about Reindeers and fed the reindeers. We all had a sit in Santa’s sleigh and watched a fantastic Elf show. 

This afternoon we have used our magic skills to make magic reindeer food to make sure Sabta stops at our houses on Christmas Eve.

We started with oats…

  
…Then we added some sparkle and magic dust from Santa…

   
 
…then we mixed…

  
…we then filled our bags with the magic…

  
…Our finished Magic Reindeer Food all ready for Christmas Eve.

Reception have been very busy baking today. 

They have made Christmas biscuits this morning. The children made Christmas wishes whilst they stirred the mixture.  

This morning Reception and Nursery performed their Christmas Nativity play. The children used their singing and acting skills to retell the Christmas Story. They all did a fantastic job.

Our Christmas Elf has been surprising us in lots of different places around the classroom this week.

On Monday he was on a zip wire…

  
On Tuesday he was making a Snow Angel…

  
On Wednesday he was in our Christmas post box…