Reception Blog

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  10

  Mar

  EAD/ ART - Tulip Paintings

  Posted by Mrs K Ferris

  In provision today we have been creating some beautiful tulip paintings. We looked at some real tulips and then used a fork to create a tulip's shape with paint. We painted the stems using thin paintbrushes!
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  09

  Mar

  EAD - Hairdressers

  Posted by Mrs K Ferris

  We have launched our hairdressers roleplay area and the children are really enjoying it! They have been booking each other in for appointments and have been dishing out blow drys!
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  02

  Mar

  PHYSICAL - Pinchy Fingers

  Posted by Mrs K Ferris

  We have been working on strengthening our fine motor skills by using pipettes to fill the Duplo holes with water. It was very fiddly and we had to be really careful with our fingers to squirt small amounts of water into the holes!
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  27

  Feb

  EAD/ ART - Pop Art

  Posted by Mrs K Ferris

  We found out about Andy Warhol and Pop Art! We looked at the piece of art based on a banana. We talked about how the painting was created using the technique of 'printing'. We had a go at creating our own version of the painting using paint sticks and sponges for printing. We used bright colours to make our art work eye-catching!
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  26

  Feb

  KUW/ GEOGRAPHY - Google Maps

  Posted by Mrs K Ferris

  Today we explored using Google Maps to look around our local area. The children found it SO exciting spotting lots of places within the community that they have visited. We used the interactive whiteboard to move around using the arrows on the map. Some children even found their houses!
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  24

  Feb

  KUW/ GEOGRAPHY - Berkeley Library

  Posted by Mrs K Ferris

  As part of our new theme we are learning about our local area. Some of the children in our class visited the Berkeley library today. We are going to visit the library in small groups over the next few weeks. The children looked around the library and chose some books to look at. Mrs Combes read them a story and they chose a story to bring back to read in class at story time!
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  06

  Feb

  KUW/ RE - Lunar New Year!

  Posted by Mrs K Ferris

  We found out about Lunar New Year today. We read the story of The Great Race and talked about this year being the year of the horse! We watched a video about a little girl celebrating Lunar New Year with her family. We talked about some of the ways they celebrated and compared these to our own experiences of celebrations such as Christmas, New Year and Bonfire Night!
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  05

  Feb

  KUW/ SCIENCE - Moon Experiment

  Posted by Mrs K Ferris

  We looked at some different pictures of the moon and talked about our own experiences of seeing the moon. We found out that the moon looks different depending on light shining on it. We used a torch to be the light and used a paper plate to be the moon. We shone the torch at different angles to create different moon shapes including a full moon and a cresent moon.
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  03

  Feb

  EAD/ ART - Paper Plate Planets

  Posted by Mrs K Ferris

  We have been making paper plate planets. We looked in our space information book to decide which planet we wanted to create. We squirted blobs of paint onto our plate and covered it in cling film. Then we used our fingers to squish the paint around on the plate! It felt very funny and we had go much fun creating our planets.
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  26

  Jan

  KUW/ SCIENCE - Space!

  Posted by Mrs K Ferris

  We have been finding out about Space! We have found out about the planets in our solar system and what makes them special. We have also found out about Neil Armstrong and the moon landing. We have been LOVING our space themed provision and have been creating fantastic rockets in our construction area.