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29 November 2024

Birthday Celebrations

We have been learning all about celebrations and this week focused on birthdays! We have had a lot of birthdays in class this month and we have loved sharing common traditions such as balloons, presents, cake, party’s and hats. 
We explored making our own cakes with play dough and tools, writing…

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26 November 2024

Planting a tree

Today we enjoyed planting 2 trees in our playground. We learnt how to plant and how to then care for our new trees. We made a promise to look after our trees and to help them to grow. We love gardening in reception!

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21 November 2024

Exploring Winter!

We were so excited to see the snow this week and we loved using our senses and hands on exploration to explore winter. We talked about the weather, how cold it is and what can keep us warm . We used our hands to feel snow and describe what it felt like and made a class snowman. 

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15 November 2024

Supporting children in need!

Today we are celebrating children in need. We have been very busy this morning with learning all about children in need and how we can make a difference. We took part in a mile walk around our field and this afternoon we will take part in some creative activities linked to children in need.…

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15 November 2024

Celebrating Bonfire Night

This week we have been learning about Bonfire Night. We have discussed  through books, videos and songs what bonfire night is and how different people celebrate. 
We used our senses to experience a bonfire night. We listened to different types of fireworks and used great vocabulary to describe…

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12 November 2024

Forest school fun

Today reception took part in a forest school session all about the season of autumn. This links to our prior understanding the world learning of seasons and seasonal changes. The children loved being outside and getting involved in all the activities set out. 

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8 November 2024

Our New Role Play Area

We had a new role play area that we have loved exploring. We have used our personal experiences to take part in ‘shopping’. We are learning new vocabulary, how to create narratives with friends and lots of social skills.

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8 November 2024

Planting Bulbs

This week we have been helping our environmental parliament to make our school ground bloom. We planted lots of daffodils around the school and can’t wait to see them grow. 

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7 November 2024

Planting bulbs!

This morning we spent some time planting bulbs around the school environment. The children learnt about the parts of a bulb and how to plant a bulb. They took it in turns to dig the mud before each planting a bulb and covering it over. We then discussed when we can expect to see the bulbs grow…

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5 November 2024

Learning about celebrations

Today we began our topic of celebrations. We looked at what some different types of celebrations are and the children spent time discussing the celebrations they took part in. We then identified which pictures taken at various celebrations fit with the ones they celebrate eg if they celebrate…

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25 October 2024

Using all Our Senses in Forest School

This week we have been learning all about Autumn. We took part in our first Forest School session with Autumn activities. 
We enjoyed leaf threading, mud painting, collaging with natural materials and pumpkin cutting.

We talked about our sea sea and used them for hands on…

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22 October 2024

Signs of Autumn- an autumn walk

Today we looked at the signs of autumn and how we know the seasons are changing. We then went out and looked at the signs of autumn around our school. We saw brown and orange leaves, berries growing on the trees and also discussed the weather. 

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