Blog Author: Mrs Atkinson

The children had to hunt for creatures that hatch from eggs in our wooded walk. We talked about the life cycles of the different creatures we found.

On World Book Day, year 3 came to read to us. We really enjoyed having an older friend to read any book we chose. The children got on so well that we have invited them back.

Our scarf topic is “what is safe to go in our bodies?”

We have sorted things we might find at home into safe and unsafe. 

This week we have celebrated Chinese New Year with our friends. As part of the day we  listened to different pieces of music. We chose our favourite and performed a dragon dance to it. We had to go up, down and around like the real dragon dancers.

This week we have been talking about the jobs farmers do in God’s wonderful world. We have looked closely at fruits and vegetables that grow at this time of year. We predicted what we might see when we cut the squashes open and if the colour on the outside made a difference to the inside.

Today we have had a visit from Tony Peek, a poet. We have listened to lots of amazing poems and we got to dance and sing.

Today we made repeated patterns. We used lots of different fruits to do this, we had so much fun!

After listening to the story of funny bones we had a chat about the skeleton inside us. All children could show me where there was a bone in their body and thanks to the story could find their skull. We will continue to name body parts including wrist, ankle and hips.

Today we talked about our favourite fruit and vegetables. We also found out where they all came from and how they are grown.  Bananas come from Costa Rica.

Every other Wednesday we get to join in with Diddi Dance, we have so much fun. We really enjoy expressing ourselves. 

Thank you to Steve, who came into Reception. He spoke to us about our bodies and how we can stay healthy. We also got a visit from Harold the giraffe.

We have had a lot of fun in the past two weeks exploring our new unit. We have met new children and tried new activities. Nursery parents are very welcome to stay and play for the first 15 minutes of every day.