Spring 1 Reception Class 1 and 2

Our first text in Literacy was Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. We learned the story from a story map and talked about the characters, setting and main events from the story.

In our focused writing groups we learned how to form our letters correctly and practised writing sentences using a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop. Some of us were challenged to think of our own sentences from the story.

Look at some of our amazing writing.

We then moved onto learning the story of the Chinese Zodiac for Chinese New Year. We learned about the 12 animals taking part in a great race across the river in the hope of having the New Year named after them.

We learned that 2024 is the Year of the Dragon. We made Chinese Lanterns and wrote instructions on how to make them.

In maths we explored teen numbers and place value and learned that numbers in the teens have a group of ten and ones. We learned how to write them numerically and made them in different ways using Numicon and Diennes. We then explored odd and even numbers beyond ten.

Our next topic was shape and after recapping the names and properties of 2D shapes we moved onto 3D shapes, learning their names and some of their properties. We explored 2D and 3D shapes in our environment.

Look at our fantastic symmetrical patterns.

Our subject driver this half term was history and we looked at photographs from when our teachers were our age at school. We talked about things from our past using our family books and learned about simple time lines.

We explored items from the past and talked about how old we thought the items were and what they were used for. We discussed similarities and differences with items from today.

In RE we looked at stories from different religions and one of these was the story of Noah and the Ark from the Old Testament in the Christian Bible.

In PE our topic was gymnastics and we learned different balances, rolls jumps and stretches and put them together to perform a simple gymnastic routine.

Coming Next

Our first text next half term is the Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. We will be learning all about what plants need to grow in Science and planting our own seeds in the classroom and observing the changes as they grow. We will also be labelling the parts of a plant. In maths we will be covering addition and subtraction again with larger numbers. Our subject driver is Design Technology and we will be learning simple sewing techniques and weaving to create webs and other designs.

Once again we would like to thank all parents and carers for their ongoing support over Spring Term 1 and look forward to working with you over the next half term.