Developing Role Play
This week we have enjoyed playing in the house role play as we have been gifted some new baby dolls. We are so pleased with our new babies and accessories. We have enjoyed dressing and pushing the prams with our babies in.
Dinosaurs
In the Early Years Foundation Stage learning is driven in part through children’s interests. Our work on carnivores, herbivores and omnivores in Science took us back to the time of the dinosaurs! Miss Delderfield created an amazing hands-on experience for the children to develop their own lines of…
Travelling Tales: Pig the Pug
We had a visit from Mrs Gethin, Ralph and some children from The Howard to share an exciting new project happening across our seven schools. Using the story Pig the Pug each school will complete a variety of activities and add them to the scrapbook. This will then be passed on, creating a powerful…
Man on the Moon: writing in Reception
The children created a story map of Man on the Moon to explain Bob’s busy day. Then Reception wrote sentences about Bob, segmenting and blending sounds to help with spelling.
Teeth
In Science we looked at carnivores, herbivores and omnivores and the teeth they have for their diets. This led us to thinking about our own teeth and how we should care for them!
To infinity and beyond!
Some of our amazing space-themed provision this week! Creating moon rock paintings and making shape rockets! Lots of opportunities for collaborative learning and language development!
Moving pictures
In Design Technology we will making some pictures with moving parts. This week we explored slider tools and created a rabbit in a magicians hat!
Writing sentences
Reception have been working hard in phonics learning new digraphs, they are now beginning to write dictated sentences!
Programming a robot: buttons
We had great fun today exploring the buttons on the Beebot and Robot Mouse to give simple commands!
Comparing animals
In Science we have been comparing animals. Do you know the difference between a reptile and amphibian? Which animal family has wings and a beak? Reception created some animal collages which stimulated discussion!
Space
Our English text is “The Way Back Home” about meeting a new friend on the moon! We have had lots of exciting space-themed provision to explore!
Year 1 Spelling Bee
Congratulations to the winner and runners-up of the first Spelling Bee heats. Who will represent Mary Howard at the TSSMAT finals in the summer?