There has been a lot of creative and physical development occurring in the early years this week. Wolves have been trying to blow down the houses created by the Nursery children and junk modelled monsters have taken over Reception!
In Reception, we have continued our topic of ‘Watch out – there’s a monster about!’. The children have been following step-by-step instructions to learn how to draw different types of monsters and some of the artistic talent has blown us away. We then used our drawing skills to design our own monster, creating a plan and thinking about how we want it to look. We used our design to help inform how we made our junk modelled monster thinking about what materials we need to use and how we are going to combine those materials together. The children had so much fun, as did we!
We have also been looking at the nursery rhyme, ‘Five Little Speckled Frogs’ to help us learn our number bonds to 5. The children had fun creating their own speckled frogs to live in the pool by painting rocks which were later varnished to keep them waterproof. They are able to demonstrate a good understanding of number bonds to five with many children being able to rapidly recall the numbers. The children have enjoyed using our new bikes and can be seen racing around the daily mile track each day.
