May 23
What busy little bees we have been in Reception this week! We started the week off by celebrating World Bee Day. We learned some interesting facts about bees – even some of the grown ups learned new things too! Then we set off to create some painted bees. We had to use our fine motor …
May 16
Fiddly Fingers In Fiddly Fingers we “offer children activities to develop and further refine their small motor skills” (Development Matters, 2023) such as “threading and sewing, playing with small world toys, and making models with junk materials, construction kits and malleable materials like clay.” We have also practised number formation and drawing following steps in the …
May 09
Literacy This week we have started to learn a new story called ‘Stuck in the Mud’, where poor Daisy the cow is stuck and Farmer Tom is asking the other farm animals for help to pull her out! This is not from a book but a Talk for Writing original, written by …
May 02
Literacy This week Zebras and Elephants have been inventing their own stories based on ‘Mr Gumpy’s Outing’ by John Burningham. We have learned how to design a front cover that is colourful and attractive to readers. We also know that an author is a person that “writes the book” and the illustrator is a person …
Apr 25
SUMMER FUN Here is our Curiosity Cuboid: We are thinking about pollution in the sea and the effect of it on sea animals. The children have been looking at the cuboid and comparing the items inside considering which things should be in the sea and which should not. Literacy In Literacy we have continued to …
Apr 19
April is the Month of the Military Child and each year we love taking the time to celebrate our military children here at Merry Hill. Service children can face challenges with parents in the armed forces. Yet these children are also an amazing asset to families, schools and the local community. The Month of the …
Apr 18
This week in Reception we welcomed the children back to school after the Easter holiday. The children have all been really happy to be reunited with their friends and adults and very quickly reacquainted themselves with the environment. In Literacy we have a new story: Mr Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham. Mr Gumpy links in …
Mar 28
Wow! What another busy week we have had! We have continued our learning about Handa’s Surprise but this week we have innovated our own ideas. We began by changing the main character and fruits in the story. What do you think of our ideas? We tried really hard to use our phonics independently to write …
Mar 21
This week we have started a new story called Handa’s Surprise. We have started to explore the story further in Child Initiated Learning and have been doing some fantastic writing in our purple books. We will keep you posted so keep an eye out for more amazing story writing soon! Here we are in explore …
Mar 14
Spring has sprung!Here is our Curiosity Cuboid ready for Easter. The children have enjoyed looking at it and spotting the signs of Easter. Understanding the World The children have been helping us to plant some seeds in the investigation area. They will be eagerly observing changes over time. PE We have begun our Jungle Gym …