EIS West E learning Week 5 EYFS

This week, in Reception, we focused our learning tasks on the story, Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchens. Rosie the hen lives on a farm and likes to take a stroll each day. However, there is a hungry fox hiding on each page of the story – will he catch Rosie and gobble her up or is Rosie much too clever for the fox? We had so much fun finding out and learning all about positional language such as: over, under, past, across, around and through.

To begin the week, the children busily set about creating story props for the farmyards that they had built themselves and carefully wrote labels for each of the landmarks that Rosie the hen visited. After making Rosie and the fox, they then set about retelling the story. They were truly amazing. Rhyming words has been a big focus over the last few weeks, so this week the children created some impressive rhyming strings of words that rhymed with hen and fox. Our live phonics sessions have also continued to be a popular event with most of the class now joining us for these sessions.

Inspired by the language in this week’s story, Rosie’s Walk, the children joined me for live Mathematics lesson where we explored positional language. The children then had great fun finding inventive ways to show me where they were using the words: on, in, under, next to and behind. This week’s Mathematics challenge really made the children think as they explored how many different shapes they could make with six sticks.

Being creative is something that the children in Reception do wonderfully. This week, they painted pictures of their favourite part of the story, Rosie’s Walk. They build roads and ramps from cereal boxes, to take their cars on a journey and made super looking tractors from recycled materials. In celebration of Earth Day, the children planted seeds and listened to the story recommended by Year 1, The Whale’s Tale. They loved it.

This week Nursery were engaged in the book “Aliens love Underpants” by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort.

“Aliens love underpants, in every shape and size but there are no underpants in space, so here's a big surprise....”

This humorous tale describes how aliens, rather than visiting Earth to take over the planet, really visit to steal your pants.

The aliens arrive on earth and are set on finding themselves some underpants. To the delight of these ‘pantomaniacs’, earthling pants come in all manner of colours, shapes and sizes. What’s more those humans have the habit of displaying these pants on lines for all and sundry to see and – well they’re just the thing for a spot of alien athletics.

The illustrations are engaging and fun, the rhymes are clever, and are enough to send your average four- or five-year-old into fits of giggles.

Through this delightful story our children happily engaged in many activities in Maths, Literacy, Understanding the World, Expressive Arts and Design and Physical Development, all geared towards achieving the Nursery Early Year’s goals.