Blog Author: Mrs Coleman Harris

We created delicious repeating patterns with food! 

We talked about our repeating food patterns by explaining which foods we used and also the flavours of the food.

"biscuit, cheese, biscuit, cheese."   "Cheesy, sweet, cheesy, sweet."

Everyone was very good at spotting a mistake in their…

This week in maths we developed size language and we learnt how to sort and compare size and capacity. We sorted large food and small food for the Gruffalo and the mouse and decided which container to put each characters food in. All of our decisions were based on our amazing understanding of…

Today in forest school we created beautiful, colourful autumn crowns! We also drank warm hot chocolate and it tasted delicious.

We showed excellent friendship, teamwork, communication and turn taking skills today. We have been flying like eagles in forest school!

We have been learning about the body and our senses! Today we tasted different foods and described how they tasted using a variety of vocabulary such as; cheesy, sweet, sour, minty, menthol, flavoursome and moreish. We talked about the tastes that we really liked and did not like. We learnt more…

This week in maths we have been learning about sorting! We have been sorting buttons, natural items, pom-poms, fruit-anything wecould find! We sorted by colour, buttons with two or four holes,shape, size and type. We explained why items did and did not belong in the groups using vocabulary like…

Today Reception have been working on their writing skill! Everyone has flown like an eagle in their writing today! 

Today we had a go at writing short words about what the body can do e.g sit, hop, run. Here is how we did it. 

First we said the word in a sentence and did the action. "My body…

Today we enjoyed PE in the sunshine! We played some warm up games, worked as a team to move in different ways and collect the farmers crops (beanbags!), practiced our throwing and catching skills and talked about the importance of PE. There were lots of smiles all the way through, amazing teamwork…

This week in maths we are learning about matching! We matched socks, numicon to the picture on the board and the animals going on to Noah's Ark! We have used key vocabulary such as same, different, like and unlike. What can you match at home? Can you match your socks, cups and saucers,…

Here is a video of the Monster phonics sounds. You can use this to practice the sounds together at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRoFpvC0yn0&feature=youtu.be

If you are unsure about how we teach children to sound out and blend the words, here is a video to help.
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