POLAR EXPLORERS

This week we have been using our imaginations, as well as finding out facts to go on a Polar Expedition.

We began the week by finding out about animals that live where it's really cold and snowy for most of the year. We found photographs and had a go at painting pictures of different animals.

This is a picture lemming, which many of the children are mistakenly calling a lemon!

You have to look very carefully to see this beatuiful Arctic Fox.

We learned that some animals can live in either the South or the North Pole but that some live in either the Arctic OR the Antarctic and that in nature Polar Bears and Penguins NEVER MEET!
We looked at an atlas and used the internet to help us do this Arctic and Antarctic animals sorting activity.

We talked about the kinds of things explorers might need to take on an exhibition and wrote out lists for the trip. As you can see everyone is at a different stage of writing in Reception, but we are all making really good progress from our individual starting points.

Very cold weather has kept us inside for a couple of days this week, so we've used the time to gather our kit lists and head to the gym for some Polar Expedition role play. We took it in turns to be huskys, explorers, polar bears and lemmings; we pitched a tent in the snow and fished in ice holes.

We also played some grat parachute games, click below to see Mr. Andre's film of us playing popcorn!

Parachute Popcorn

AND we built a police station for small world role play!

In maths we have been making sure we can match quatity to numerals. We are fantastic at using the number fans and really enjoy playing Miss Lucie's number dance dice game!

In phonics we have learned the sounds f/h/b as well as the high frequency words go and no.

HOMEWORK

Please read and return the book in your folder and have a go at the handwriting sheets.

Also have a look at some of the links below.

POLAR HABITATS

Andy's Wild Adventures Polar Bears

Mother Bear and Cubs

ART WEEK

Art Week began with the children working on three large scale art projects with three different teachers! In the Reception classroom we used finger painting to make this busy picture of London's skyline. Each child chose their own colour, you can see the colour key at the bottom of the picture.

For the rest of the week Reecption focused on the work of Gustav Klimt. We looked at two of his most famous paintings, THE KISS and THE TREE OF LIFE. The children looked really closely at the patterns and colours in the pictures.

We used coloured wool in water to investigate making our own swirls. 

We used pipe cleaners to make spirals for our own trees.

Careful spiral work, gold on black.

We investigated how different shapes fit together to make patterns.

We got an enormous piece of paper and listened to different types of music. As we listened to the music we thought about the colours and shapes we could see in our minds and we drew them on the paper.

HOMEWORK

Please find Reading books and worksheets for u and r in your child's folder.

Have a look at any pictures you have at home and see which colours, patterns and shapes you can find.

Also please don't forget to use BUSYTHINGS and TEACHYOURMONSTERTOREAD websites.