Reception
This week in Reception, we based our learning tasks around the popular children’s story, Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak. The story is about a boy called Max who sails to the land of the wild things, which are huge monsters with claws. Not frightened of anything, Max tames the wild things, who agree that he is the wildest of them all and they make him their king. However, Max soon realises that he misses his mummy’s love. Although the wild things beg him to stay, he returns home, where his supper is waiting for him.
In Science, the children investigated floating and sinking and made boats from recycled containers and tested them to see whether they were sea-worthy. The children were also set a critical thinking challenge to see whether it is possible to make play-doh float. Investigating how to make a shadow and turn it into a scary monster produced some fabulous pieces of art work this week.
In Mathematics the children continued to practise doubling numbers and have truly amazed me with the high numbers that they can quickly double. They had fun playing interactive doubling games and some children used paint to make their number double sentences. Capacity was another activity that was explored this week, where the children estimated and then carefully counted out the number of smaller containers that it took to measure the lagers ones.
The children in Reception are very creative and have made some impressive wild thing masks this week. In addition to this they also made fabulous crowns, just like Max had in the story and thought about what they would do if they were king or queen of the wild things for the day. Finally, the children helped to prepare their favourite meal to eat at home with their family. It has been another very busy week!
Nursery
This term Nursery will be focused on the topic Animals and Plants.
Nursery have started the book “Dear Zoo” by Rod Campbell.
Rod Campbell's lift-the-flap book, Dear Zoo, combines a young child's love of zoo animals and playing hide and seek. In Dear Zoo a child writes a letter to the zoo asking them to send them a pet. What zoo animal would you like as a pet? Maybe it is an elephant, a lion, or a frog. As the story unfolds we discover that some animals are just not suitable as a pet. I wonder which animal will be a perfect pet? The ending will be a huge surprise. Dear Zoo is an amusing and interactive story that gives space for children to guess and at times even predict what animal is in the crate/behind the flap. The repetitive phrases encourage the reading along as you tell the story.
