Reception - Spring 1 - Week 5

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 4:32pm

We cannot believe it is half term already. Reception you have been amazing!

This week the children have been learning all about ‘Chinese New Year’. We talked about how it is celebrated, enjoyed watching a dragon dance and read the story ‘The great race’. We then discussed similarities to how we celebrate New Year, such as having firework displays. We all sat together for a lovely Chinese banquet for the opportunity to try different Chinese foods whilst listening to Chinese music. It was lovely to see the children having a try of the different foods! We took part in lots of different creative activities such as Chinese writing, lantern making and making Chinese fans. What a fun week we have had!

In maths the children have been using their subitising skills when looking at different dot patterns of 6,7 and 8. They were challenged to match the ladybird images together with the same number of spots. We noticed that if we look on each side of the lady bird the two amounts of dots present a way that the number is composed. Great maths work everyone!

On Tuesday for 'Safer internet day' we welcomed our brilliant digital leaders to our class to talk to us about how to be safe when using the internet. They then kindly taught the children how to use the Beebots. Thank you so much digital leaders!

On Friday the children learnt all about Valentine’s day. We enjoyed listening to the story, ‘Guess how much I love you’ and talked about people that we love. The children then made heart shaped pancakes to enjoy together as an early celebration of pancake day.

We hope you have a lovely half term and see you all soon!

Miss Dalley and the Reception team

Reminders:

Monday 19th February – Back to School

Wednesday 28th February WOW Service at St Peter’s Church – Celebrating Mother’s Day

Wednesday 6th March – Team TSP Mother’s Day Present Room

Thursday 7th March – World Book Day