It has been a fun week in Reception and the children have been busy working hard. This week, the book that the learning has been based around has been “The Bog Baby” by Jeanna Willis. The children predicted what features a bog baby would have and then created a drawing of how they thought it would look. The next day, the bog baby from the story was revealed and the children compared their predictions to reality. Everybody was invited to make a bog baby using blue salt dough and various craft materials. A cute collection of creatures was created. Reception then considered how pets are kept and what owners do to meet their needs. They created a list of things they need to keep their bog baby healthy and happy. Finally, the children designed and made a habitat for their new pet bog baby to live in. After all of this talk about keeping pets, some of the children completed a writing challenge to tell everybody what pets they would like to have at home.
In phonics this week, the children have learned the final new sounds they will be taught this year (‘air’ and ‘er’). They will now work on consolidating their knowledge and reading these sounds in more complicated words (such as compound and CCVCC) and sentences. They were introduced to the tricky words ‘are’, ‘sure’ and ‘pure’.
In mathematics, the children are moving onto learning about the composition of numbers up to 7. They are looking at how 6 and 7 are made from 5 and a bit.
