Blog 14.03.25
This week we continued with the book 'The Train Ride' by June Crebbin.
Our Rainbow Challenges this week have been related to this.
Writing – Nursery: Write about how the girl feels when she sees her grandma and tell an adult what your writing says Reception: Write about how the girl feels when she sees her grandma and use the sounds you know in your writing
Drawing – Follow the instructions to draw an electric train
Maths – Nursery: Match Numicon to fill the train Reception: Choose Numicon to fill the train
Playdough – Nursery: Use playdough to make a train Reception: Use playdough to make a train with six wheels
Creative – Nursery: Decorate a train Reception: Decorate a train and tell an adult what you used
Outside – Nursery: Go outside and see what you can see Reception: Go outside and see what you can see. Write it on a list
Funky Fingers – Nursery: Use tweezers to put wheels on the train Reception: Use tweezers to put wheels on the train. Can you do it before the timer runs out.
Five children completed all their Rainbow Challenges this week and did their Gold Challenge. Well done!
In RWInc the Reception children have read the purple ditty book ‘A Bad Fox’ and have been recapping all the Set 2 sounds. Some of the nursery children have been learning about the sound ‘p’ and have been playing some rhyming games. The other nursery children have been playing an animal noise game thinking about how the sounds are different and have also been listening to some rhyming words linked to the Little Red Riding Hood story.
In maths the Reception children have been learning and using positional language. The nursery children have been using the Multilink to help them learn about numbers to five and some nursery children have continued to learn about capacity. We also learnt about ordinal numbers. We put the things that the girl in our story ‘The Train Ride’ saw out of the window in order of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th.
This week in music, as part of our ‘Musical Stories’ we learnt the song ‘There was a Princess Long Ago’ and used some actions to tell the story. In PE with Sam this week we used balls to practise our throwing and catching and played a chasing game. We have completed two more challenges for our Star Quest Award. We investigated which was the best clothes peg by putting sand and rocks in socks on a washing line and went on a minibeast hunt at beach school. With Miss Murray we focused on listening really carefully. She read us a story and we discussed what had happened and we answered questions about the story.
We have really enjoyed reading ‘The Train Ride’ and this week we made some fabulous chalk pictures of the steam train in the story. We also pretended to be like the little girl looking out of the window to see what we could see. We had a ‘window’ and went outside and spoke about what we saw through our window.
Our big RE question this half term is ‘Why do Christians put a cross in an Easter garden?’. This week we heard a bit more about Easter. We found out about hot cross buns and looked at some palm crosses.
Starfish star of the week was Max. He has done some brilliant number work this week.
Next week our story will be ‘Cars Galore’ by Peter Stein.