Friday 17th October

This week in Hendra class we have been visited by a tiger! This tiger loves to eat and has joined the children at the snack table every day.

We have been reading 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' by Judith Kerr and from this we have been making all sorts of delicious treats for the tiger. We even set up a restaurant in our Mud Kitchen so he can have lots of thigs to eat.

We have been busy practising writing our names this week to put on invitations to come to tea with the tiger.

We have been exploring how we can move in different ways around a space in PE so we can move like a tiger in the jungle, jumping high and crouching down low.

In drawing club, we have been drawing and labelling what we most love to eat. We then add a bit of magic by using the sounds we know to make our favourite foods appear.

We finished the week by retelling the story using our tiger masks.

What a tiger-tastic week!

 

Friday 26th September 

We’ve had another great week this week exploring the story of Elmer. We have been re-telling the story using puppets and talking about what makes us special. Elmer had his colours, and we have all drawn what makes us special too. It was lovely to hear about all the children’s likes, skills and interests.

We have explored colour mixing this week and had lots of messy fun creating our own colour wheels and using collage to make our own Elmer masks.

In Maths, we have been sorting objects into sets and explaining using maths language how we have ordered them too.

We had great fun in forest school getting the hammock out and swinging in the autumn sunshine.

 

Friday 19th September

Our topic book for this week and next is Elmer by David McKee.

Through the story we have been talking about all things to do with family and friendships. We have talked about who is in our family and what being a family means to us, creating our own family portraits to put up on the wall. We talked about what makes a good friend and how Elmer loved to make his friends laugh. The children have been making some lovely friendships and are enjoying playing together really well.

We have been mini artists this week and have made our own patchwork elephants. 

We have also looked at the artist, Pier Mondrian, seeing how he used blocks of colour to make his art. We made our own Mondrian-inspired pieces which we are really proud of.

We have had lots of fun with Elmer and will be doing more with the story next week.

Friday 12th September

What a great first week of Reception the children have had!

Hendra class have been having lots of fun getting to know each other and making new friends, showing kindness, how we share and listen to each other.  

We have been reading the story of the Colour Monster this week and through lots of colourful art, the children have explored all the different feelings and colours from the story, helping to support them as they explore their own emotions and expressing how they make them feel. 

A great first full week Hendra class.

Me and Mrs Mills are very proud of you all.