Jubilee preparations

On Friday afternoon we joined forces with the rest of the school for a 'mix-up' session.  Its purpose was to make decorations ready for our Jubilee street party next week (weather permitting!).  As usual this turned out to be a delightful time, with older children supporting the younger ones and a general sense of calm spread around the Reception classroom.

Some letters and notes went home today - the 'Zoo Trip' letter and a note about homework for half term.  Please let us know if you did not find these in your child's book bag!

Shapes, games and planting our beans

We have been looking at different shapes and had a chance to make models of 3D shapes as well as also do water paintings and collages of 2D shapes. Eban's mum came in and played a fun game called 'What's The Time Mr Wolf' that helped us with our numbers. We also planted our sprouting beans outside to see if they would carry on growing and made some plant  animal models out of pipe cleaners. What a busy week! 

Plants

This week we have been doing more work on plants: we have been looking at the non-fiction book 'My Bean Diary' and examining the stages of growing a bean, we have made plant pictures and labelled the key parts, we have noticed some spurts of growth in our own beans (some have grown out of their bags!) and we have made pictures using seeds.  Our water area had bubbles added to it which made for some good bubble beards, and we were able to finally spend some time in the sunny outdoor area after all the rain we have been having.