10th May 2024
What an excellent start to the summer term we have had. We have started our brand new topic ‘Out and About’ and have enjoyed reading the story ‘Topsy and Tim Visit London’ by Jean and Gareth Adamson. We were sent a photo album of the places Topsy and Tim visited on their trip and enjoyed finding these places on a virtual tour of London. We have compared London to Ellington and wrote some wonderful sentences about which landmarks we would like to visit in London. We then thought of questions we could ask Topsy and Tim about their trip and used these questions in our hot seating task where we took turns to take on the role of Topsy or Tim. The children were able to provide some wonderful answers to the questions asked by their friends, scan the QR codes below to have a look. This week we have been finishing off writing a postcard to tell our friends all about London, the children have produced some lovely writing for this task!
In maths, we have been working on our number bonds to 5, addition by counting on and subtraction by counting back. The children have also enjoyed exploring division by sharing between 2 and 3 using skittles to find the answer, we even got to eat the sweets once we had finished, yum!
We were so excited to have Mr Bailey come into our class to teach us computing. It was lots of fun creating an algorithm to move the cow into the bathtub on Busy Things and debugging when we made a mistake. Mr Bailey was very impressed with our problem solving skills.
We have been exploring people who keep us safe at home, in school and in our community. The children had some great ideas including parents helping to keep us safe at home, teachers keep us safe at school and shopkeepers, police officers and doctors keep us safe in the community.
This week we began our daily mile challenge by running around the school field. The children have been really keen to join in each day and we are having so much fun getting some extra exercise to keep us healthy!
Great work Reception!