St John the Baptist CE VA Primary School Reception

This week children acted out the story of Jack and the Beanstalk to an audience. Children then planted beans just like in the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. In the PSHE lesson, children talked about why friends are important and how they help us. They then made cards and certificates to celebrate their friends. This week, children took part in World Book Day. They wrote about their favourite story characters and made bookmarks. Children then shared books with children from Y6. In our RE lesson, children found out why the cross is a special symbol for Christians. 

This week the children have enjoyed reading the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. Children then followed instructions to make porridge. They ate their porridge when it was ‘just right’! On our welly walk the children looked for signs of spring. We found lots of daffodils and insects. Children carefully observed the daffodils and painted them.  

We enjoyed having our first Christmas dinner. We made special hats to wear. the cooks made us delicious food. We enjoyed eating with Year 1 and 2.

This week we started our new topic ‘Ourselves’ by creating a mind map to show what we already know and new information we have discovered. We painted self-portraits and practised writing our names. We read our Scarf PSED book, All About Me and thought about how we are the same and how we are different. We also began our Little Wandle Developing Language, Rhyme Time lessons, which supports children learning language, their awareness of sounds within words and later their reading. For maths this week we have been singing counting rhymes and practising our counting skills. During Learning Through Play we had the opportunity to practise getting ready for school in our Home Corner, build a house in our Construction Area and play in our School Role Play.