St Helen's Garden Centre

Today we have been thinking about our role-play area for this topic. We've decided on creating our own garden centre. We have begun to design the centre, we've made some flowers and a picket fence for the outside. Next week we will begin to use it to learn in a range of curriculum areas such as literacy  (writing receipts, lists of flowers and seeds), maths (counting, problem solving, money), understanding the world (knowledge of plants, changes, bugs and insects, local environment, purposes of technology), communication and language (speaking, listening, understanding), PSED (building relationships, taking account of others' needs, sharing and taking turns). 

Symmetry

We have started our new topic of 'The very hungry caterpillar' this week and we have already squeezed a lot into our week. We focused on maths this week and in particular, symmetry and patterns. We have all mastered shape patterns, colour patterns and repeating patterns so we looked at the beautiful symmetrical patterns on 'The very hungry caterpillars' butterfly. We created simple symmetrical patterns using counters on ladybirds, drawing our own butterflies and painting symmetrical patterns.

Picnic on the moon

Today we have spent the day learning about healthy food and made some food for our picnic on the moon. Sadly the great British weather didn't hold out for us and it has rained all day so we went to 'Plan B' and had our picnic inside.

We investigated making patterns with our fruit and vegetables.

Spring is here!!

This afternoon Class 1 let us have a look at their chicks. Everyone in Reception had the chance to hold the chicks. We talked about signs of spring and new life.