God's amazing World! Creation!
Today Reception learned about the VIP God! The Creator! We read the Creation story and then we took a walk around the school. We visited the big Bible Frieze. We found the Creation section. We spotted fish, Adam and Eve, sea creatures and a giraffe! All of God's amazing creations! We then walked…
Reception have started to learn how to read with the Monster Phonics!
This week Reception began their reading journey with the Monster Phonics!
The children have really enjoyed taking part in their first lessons learning the sounds s,a,t and p. We have learned how to say the sounds and how to write the letter that represents the sound. We have practised forming…
We have started our Monster Phonics sessions!
We have been learning the sounds s,a,t and p this week.
We have been practicing pronouncing the sounds clearly.
We have also been forming the letters in sand, on Chinese writing paper, using pen, and dough!
We have really enjoyed and flown like eagles in our first Monster Phonics…
Flying like a...butterfly?!
We have had a fabulous morning on our mini beast adventure! We have painted, created, built, worked as a team, face painted, ate snacks, created potions, hunted for mini beasts, made bracelets and more!
Developing our fine motor strength and skills.
We have been using cotton buds and our finger strength to press and mark mark in the paint pouches. The paint was squashy, thick and difficult to press into the shapes but we persevered!
Under the sea!
We have been enjoying learning around the story 'Sharing a Shell.' We explored the textures and materials in our under the sea themed tray. There were anemones, coral and sea creatures to find. We have been learning about the oceans that surround the land on planet Earth.
Big muscle development!
Look at us developing and building our shoulder, arm and hand strength! We have been working hard to build our gross motor muscles and strength this morning! We used the brushes to sweep soapy water and made rivers, we used spray bottles and stencils to make patterns on the playground and we built…
A visit from Bob at The Lichfield Litter Legends!
We have had a lovely visit from Bob at the Lichfield Litter Legends! He taught us all about caring for the environment, the word biodegradable and told us lots of stories about his litter picking adventures! The children sat and listened beautifully. Well done class one!
Sharing equally in maths!
We used raisins in our maths today to explore sharing fairly and equally. We placed 10 raisins on a tens frame. We knew the tens frame needed to be full to make 10. We talked about and noticed odd and even and part/whole. Then we shared the raisins between 2 groups and discussed dividing fairly…
Raspberry picking!
We really enjoyed working as a team to pick raspberries this afternoon! We are going to have them at snack time tomorrow. We can’t wait to try them! We love growing and trying our own produce at St Mary’s!
Creating a colourful butterfly as a team!
We used our fine motor skills to pinch pipettes and press circular sponges onto cotton wool to create a tie dye butterfly as a team!
Releasing the tadpoles and froglets!
Today we looked closely at the tadpoles and how they have changed. Some had legs and the tail has shrunk! We released the tadpoles and froglets into the school pond. We used words like oxygenated and amphibian as we learned all about frogs and the plants in the pond!