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Draw Your Family Competition
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Crafternoon
Today, Reception and their grown ups took part in our Christmas Crafternoon. Adults joined us to make snow globe pictures, wrap gifts in our workshop, complete Christmas maths activities and to read Christmas stories. We even took silly selfies in our Christmas photobooth area.
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Scarecrow Competition
EYFS took part in the Trust’s ‘build a scarecrow’ task to create a scarecrow from recycled materials, dressed in our Greenside uniform. As a class, we discussed what different recycled materials we could use for each part of the scarecrow. We worked as a team to build the scarecrows and put them in our forest area.
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Remembrance Day
For Remembrance Day, we discussed what we remember every year on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. We spoke about why we wear poppies on our clothes and found out that they grew on the fields where the soldiers once fought. We spent some time to think about how lucky we are and to think about the soldiers that fought for our country. We created our own poppies using hand prints, and created a wreath for our classroom windows.
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Spooky Paintings
For Halloween, Reception created some spooky paintings. We used our fists to print a pumpkin shape and added some googly eyes. We also created some ghosts using PVA glue and glitter, to decorate our classroom ready for our Halloween disco.
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Halloween Disco
To celebrate Halloween, Reception took part in their very first school disco. The children dressed up in their fantastic costumes and danced to some spooky music!
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Our First Week
During our first week in Reception, we read the book ‘We Are All Different’. We discussed how we all look different to each other and that nobody is the same. People’s differences are what makes them special. We looked in the mirror to choose the correct colours to paint a self-portrait. We checked to see what our hair looks like and at our eye colours.
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Story - We Are Unique
We have been reading the Elmer story and discussed how Elmer is different to his friends. We found out that Elmer loves to make his friends laugh and that he is colourful. We then discussed what is special about us, and what makes us different. We created our own unique person and made it patchwork like Elmer. Everybody’s patchwork person is unique and special, just like them.
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Bonfire Night
During the first week of November, we learnt about Bonfire Night and some of the history behind this exciting celebration. We learnt about why we ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November,” and about Guy Fawkes’s treacherous plot.
We came up with some important safety rules to keep us safe as we celebrate and enjoy the night.
Finally, we created our own firework art and name rockets and even made some sparklers!
As part of our Autumn topic, we read the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ by Helen Cooper. We looked at a set of instructions about how to make pumpkin soup and discussed what the ingredients were and how to make it. Finally, we tasted some homemade pumpkin soup! Some children said that it was delicious, but others thought that it was yucky!
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Sensory Pumpkins
We used our senses to explore some pumpkins! We talked about how pumpkins are picked in Autumn and that they can be used to cook with. We also carve them at Halloween to make lanterns and to decorate outside of our houses. Some children spoke about how they have been pumpkin picking at a pumpkin patch! We put our hands inside the pumpkins to feel what they are like. We also had a look at the seeds and found out that they can be used to grow more pumpkins.
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Harvest
This week we learned all about Harvest. We found out that this is when all of the food that has been grown is gathered. We spoke about the types of food that are grown and that these grow on a farm. Farmers use scarecrows to scare off the birds so that they don’t eat the food that has grown. To celebrate Harvest, we created our own scarecrow!
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Family Portraits
As a part of our ‘I am unique’ topic, we discussed the different types of families. We drew pictures of our families and the people that we live with. We discovered that many of us lived with a range of people and some children have two homes. We discussed how every family is different and that every family is special.
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