Blog 21.03.25
This week our book was ‘Car’s Galore’ by Peter Stein. In the book we see lots of cars of different shapes, sizes, sounds, and even smells. The cars are packed with big personalities and awesome features.
Our Rainbow Challenges this week have been related to this.
Writing – Nursery: Write about your favourite car in the story and tell an adult what your writing says Reception: Write about your favourite car in the story and use the sounds you know in your writing
Drawing – Follow the instructions to draw a car
Maths – Nursery: Park the Numicon cars in the car parking space Reception: Park the Numicon cars that make ten in the car parking spaces
Playdough – Nursery: Use playdough to make a car Reception: Use playdough to make a car with four wheels and five windows
Creative – Nursery: Make a paper plate car Reception: Make a paper plate car and tell an adult what you used
Outside – Nursery: Go outside and talk about the cars you can see Reception: Go outside and make a list of the different coloured cars you see
Funky Fingers – Nursery: Draw around the car outline Reception: Draw around the car template five times
Lots of 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 ‘Big Blog and Baby Blog’ and have been recapping all the Set 2 sounds. Some of the nursery children have been learning about the sound ‘g’ and have been playing some initial sound games. The other nursery children have been playing a listening bingo game, making different noises for the story have been playing a listening and repeating game.
In maths the Reception children have been learning about 3d solid shapes. The nursery children have been learning about long, short, taller and shorter and some nursery children have been learning about pairs. We have also been making cars using 2d shapes.
This week in music, as part of our ‘Musical Stories’ we used instruments to represent actions in a story. We used the book ‘We’re Going on a Bear. We completed one more challenge for our Star Quest Award. We explored some different types of sand timers and then investigated how to make our own. We tried different ways of making the sand flow faster and slower. With Miss Murray we continued to focus on listening really carefully. We played a whispering game where we had to listen very carefully to each other.
We have really enjoyed reading ‘Cars Galore’ and this week we made a huge map with different roads just like the roads in the book. We also made a list of as many different parts of a car that we could think of and then the Reception children labelled the parts of a car.
Our big RE question this half term is ‘Why do Christians put a cross in an Easter garden?’. This week we found out a bit more about Easter. We leant about what some people do to people celebrate Easter.
Some children enjoyed a visit to the mobile library this week and chose some more books to read in class.
Starfish star of the week was Emma. She did some fabulous writing as part of her Rainbow Challenge this week.
Next week we will continue with our story ‘Cars Galore’ by Peter Stein.