Today is Romania Day!

Nicole, Andreas and Anais have taught us all about their families traditions. We learnt that in Romania, everyone gets the day off school and work. We learnt that people go shopping, have special family meals and spend time with family and friends to celebrate the union of different countries.

Nicole very kindly brought us in some flags to colour. We loved using our blue, yellow and red pens to create the flag. 

We hope everyone celebrating has a wonderful day with family and friends. 

Beech Class.

This week we have started to learn about repeating patterns. We made them using sponges and paint. Beech class did a fantastic job. We are going to explore patterns more next week. 

Outside, some of the boys in our class built the biggest house ever! They were really proud of their house and worked extremely hard as a team to build it. Well done! 

Jaxson made an incredible water slide! He used different pipes and water to push his car down. The children loved using the water slide. Well done, Jaxson. 

This week we have been super busy practising our Christmas Show. They have to sing, sign and act! We are the shepherds, sheep and narrators! We can't wait to show you our play! 

Well done Beech Class! Have a fantastic weekend,

Miss Weston, Mrs Kandola and Miss Dela. 

We have had terrible news in Birch class. Our class pet Croc is missing! We have searched high and low, in bushes, cupboards and under tyres but we can't find Croc. We have been busy this week making crocodile toys, brightly coloured flags and missing posters to help Croc find their way back to our class. We learned how to use describing words on our posters to add more detail for the reader. We thought about what Croc looked like when we last saw them and decided, red, green, spikey, long and sharp described Croc the best. If you see Croc, please return them to Birch class! 

Today was Children in Need day. We learnt about the Children in Need charity and how our money helps children who may not be as fortunate as us. 

We had a great day! We made Pudsey masks, our own pudsey ears and our very own salt-dough little pudsey bears. 

This week as part of our Toys topic we had a visit from Stevenage Museum. 

Kate who worked at the museum, brought lots of old and new toys for us to look at and play with. 

Luckily, we had already learnt about the 'past' and 'present' so we knocked her socks off with the things we already knew!

We looked at the way children watched cartoons, what their teddies felt like and how their dolls used to look like. We also realised that we still played with toys that children used to play with from the past.

We had a great visit and learnt so much!

Hello, this week we had our Toy Workshop. We had to investigate different toys and work out if they were old or new. We loved exploring and playing with the different toys. 

We even learnt about how cartoons used to made. We got to see an old baby bottle that was made of glass. We loved ordering the dolls from oldest to newest. 

We got to play with lots of different toys. We hadn't seen some of them before. The Jack in a Box made us jump! The Diablo was fun to use. We knew how to use the skipping rope and it was fun to play with it. 

Well done Beech Class, have a lovely weekend. 

Miss Weston, Mrs Kandola and Miss Dela. 

Diwali Day in Reception was amazing! 

We arrived into a dark classroom where Diwali music was playing! We had a boogie in the morning while the children came in and showed off our amazing bright clothes. 

We made Diwa lamps out of clay, Diwali lanterns and ribbon dancing sticks. 

This afternoon we had a very special visitor. A parent from Year 2 came down to teach us some Bollywood dancing! 

We used our ribbon dancing sticks to dance around the hall to some amazing Bollywood music. 

We have had an amazing day! Happy Diwali 

This week in reception we have been exploring and learning more new skills. In maths we learned how to measure length and height using the key words, long, short, tall and short so in our outside area we had a painty teabag throwing competition. We dipped our teabags in pant and threw them as far as we could. After we had impressed Mrs Kirby with our throwing skills, we measured the length the teabags had traveled with our footsteps. The longest teabag travelled 14 of Mrs Kirby's footsteps and the shortest travelled 4 footsteps.  What can you measure using footsteps at home?

In our mud kitchen, we found a selection of flowers and dried flowers so we set about making a range of culinary delights. We made a fragrant cold soup with bay leaves, a fruit, petal salad and a scrumptious mud muffin. We also decorated a few stones with our favourite fruits  and vegetables so we can make our meals even more sensational! Of course we make lots of mess as it is a very busy kitchen but don't worry, Mr Sharp our site manager has installed a wonderful water pump to help us with washing up. We can show you our washing up skills at home too. 

In our topic lessons, we have been learning about toys in the past and present. We researched toys that children played with many years ago and realised that we still play with some of them now. We were surprised to see, toy cars, marbles and teddies were popular in the past. While we were researching our toys, we had a visit from Amy who was selling poppies. Some of us wondered why we buy poppies so we found out that we wear poppies to support people that served in the war many years ago to help their countries. 

This week in our Jigsaw lesson, we learned a little more about each other. We had a visit from Jigsaw Jack. We learned that if we are holding Jigsaw Jack, it was our turn to talk. First we spoke to our talk partners and then we took turns to hold Jigsaw Jack to tell the rest of the class something we were very good at. We discussed how special we all were and how good we all are at different activities. Some of us are brilliant at jumping into a swimming pool, riding a horse, using our scooters and counting. 

We are really busy with our phonics! We learn a new phoneme everyday. 

We also have our very own Phonics books. We take it in turns to practise writing in our books.

This week we learnt that a sentence has...

"lots of words in it"

"finger spaces to break up the words"

"full stop to tell everyone the sentence has finished!"