A busy week

A busy if reasonably quiet week! We have continued to use our teddies to help us learn - this week thinking about 1 "more or less than" another number. Our teddies climbed up and down ladders to help us think! We have also (shhh!) started to learn the Mice and Bird Dance we will be performing during our Xmas production and have begun to learn the songs with great success!

If you go down to the woods ...

On Wednesday Reception had their first trip out to Leigh Woods. We had a fantastic time exploring there with Bill the Warden. We used our senses to explore the different leaves, trees and wildlife and came back laden with collections of things to look at, draw and play with. We have also drawn some maps of our walk around the woods. May we take this opportunity to say thank you again to our parent and grandparent helpers and to the children for their fabulous behaviour and enthusiastic interest. You were so brilliant that we have awarded the whole class 'Star of the Week' this week! Well done.

The 3 Bears

We've had fun this week starting our Teddy topic by inviting our own bears in to meet the class. We've used them to do some measuring, finding things 'taller and shorter' than them and to paint their portraits. We have enjoyed acting out the story of the 3 Bears and playing in their house in our role play cottage as well as in the bear cave in the classroom. Some of us made porridge and imagined we were the Bears in the story tasting it "too hot!" "Mmm, just right!" We even joined in with a 3 Bears Rap.Yeah!

Divali

This first week back we have been learning about the story behind the festival of Divali. Some children have acted out the story using masks and we have made diva lights and drawn some lovely firework pictures using coloured chalks. We even learnt how Indian people greet each other by bowing with our hands together and saying 'Namaste'. Next week our Teddies topic starts properly so please bring in those teddies if you haven't already.