It was very busy week for reception!
We made numicon biscuits. We printed the numicon onto the biscuits and cut around them. We discussed the numbers one more one less and talked about whether each number was odd or even. We decorated the biscuits using the numicon colours and then made our number bonds to 10 so that every friend could eat 10.
We turned into chefs and baked some delicious pizzas. We each rolled out a piece of dough, spread on some tomato, chose our toppings and put them on and then sprinkled the cheese on top. We cooked them in the oven and then enjoyed having them as a snack. Ahmet said “This pizza is delicious”.
We completed an exercise challenge. We decided what exercises we wanted to do, we predicted how many we would do in 1 minute and then completed the exercise. Some children had got their estimate correct. We enjoyed running around the playground. We followed this by creating numbers to 10 using chocolate fingers (we ate the numbers afterwards!).
We made some shape creatures. We had a piece of card and used our imagination to create an alien, monster or animal using different cut out shapes. We had some beautiful creations including a cat, flamingo and an alien reading a book
We had another shape challenge that involved spaghetti and marshmallows. In teams, we had to create 2D and 3D shapes, using spaghetti for the sides and marshmallows for the vertices. We made a square, trapezium, pyramid and cube. The cube wouldn’t stand on its own so we all tried different methods to help it stand. Amani decided that by making it smaller, it would stand on its own which worked. The children showed great resilience in trying different methods and thinking about how to improve it.
Over the week, the children created their own story book, based on ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. They all created different characters and story lines, writing the days of the week on each page. Some of the titles of the book were: The Silly Potato, The Sleepy Kitten and The Very Loud and Fast Racing Car. At the end of the week, the Reception children enjoyed reading their stories to the Kindergarten children.
Florence’s story was called The Very Hungry Cat.
One day ago there was a girl with a cat.
On Monday morning the cat was having breakfast and the girl went to school.
On Tuesday the cat ate through 2 fish.
On Wednesday the cat ate through 3 bananas.
On Thursday the cat ate through 4 biscuits.
On Friday the cat ate through 5 apples.
On Saturday morning the cat had 6 oranges.
On Sunday the cat ate through 7 pencils.
The cat went home and went to bed.
It was fantastic week filled with fun imaginative projects, well done Reception!
