This week our learning was based around our Drawing club story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We built bridges and climbed over bridges. We designed and built various ways to cross rivers and experimented in the water tray with sinking and floating materials and built rafts out of natural and man-made materials. We painted rivers and fields by mixing and exploring the use of different blues and greens. We drew, coloured and wrote about the characters in the story and also made troll faces using natural materials in our Tuff Tray. In music, we used drums to explore different sounds to represent the trip-trapping of each of the goats, using small drums for the smallest goat and large drums for the largest. The children listened well, played at the right time and were able to copy a pattern on their drums. As we were thinking about rivers and bridges, it seemed a good idea to link to our local area. The children were able to identify pictures of local buildings and areas around North Tawton, including bridges and rivers that they might have walked by. We learnt a little more about our ‘House Teams’ and that they were all named after local rivers. I also introduced the children to the poetry of Ted Hughes and explained how this very famous poet lived in our community. I read some of Ted Hughes’ poems for children about animals that live in our local environment. The children continue to make great progress in their phonics. I was very impressed with their writing this week and we are encouraging them to read and write during their independent learning using ‘Fred Talk’ and ‘Fred Fingers’. After Easter, with one term left in Reception, we will be gradually increasing the length of the phonics sessions to prepare them for the expectations of year 1. In maths this week, the children recognised, made and represented doubles up to double 5. They really enjoyed the practical activities involved and were able to work collaboratively with a partner. The children were also introduced to the concept of odd and even numbers through visual representation which they were then able to create from multilink: It has been lovely to get outside more this week. The children love the outdoor area and are so creative with the varied learning they can experience in our fantastic environment. Hopefully, spring is now here and we will be able to do much more learning outdoors in the coming weeks.
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