Reading

Lily and the Snowman

Lily and the Snowman

In English, we have been using digital literacy to inspire us to write creative recounts of Lily and the Snowman. We built our own snowmen and made shadow puppets to immerse ourselves into the story. We have also worked hard to include key features in our writing such...

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The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch

The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch

We have enjoyed sharing the story as a class of ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch’ as well as investigating other light sources, building our own pulley system and baking lighthouse biscuits.

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5,4,3,2,1 Blast Off 🚀

5,4,3,2,1 Blast Off 🚀

One of our nursery children was lucky enough to see a real rocket launch and shared it with us all on our online learning journal Tapestry.  This inspired us to play all things rockets🚀 We listened to different stories including Roaring Rockets, Whatever Next...

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Sharing books with friends

Sharing books with friends

As well as sharing books in our classroom throughout the day, Reception enjoy coming to our school library. We choose books that interest us to chat about then we always share a book as a class with our grown ups.

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A Visit to the Rowlands Gill Library

A Visit to the Rowlands Gill Library

The children went to the local library to share stories together. As part of road safety week, we looked at the traffic lights and talked about what the colours meant. We practised looking left and right before we crossed the road.  

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Nursery Rhyme Week 2023:Wheels on the Bus…

Nursery Rhyme Week 2023:Wheels on the Bus…

Today we sang the Wheels on the bus and chose different things and actions to go on the bus. We played with some jigsaws and added different people onto the bus. We have talked about when we have been on a journey on a bus or boat during group time. We looked through...

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Nursery Rhyme Week 2023: Row, Row, Row your Boat….

Nursery Rhyme Week 2023: Row, Row, Row your Boat….

Today we learnt the song row row your boat. We talked about what objects could sink and float, then made boats using junk materials. Some children placed their boats in the water tray to see if they would sink or float. The children from Reception came to join us and...

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Nursery Rhyme Week 2023: Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes….

Nursery Rhyme Week 2023: Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes….

First we listened to the rhyme Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes, and discussed what happened. We drew around each other looking at different parts of the body and comparing who was the tallest or shortest. We then talked about how everyone was unique and painted people...

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