Our Week - W/C - 2nd May 2022

This week the children have been finishing off reading The Barefoot Earth Poem 'Behold' by Mary Kawena Pukui. The children have been outside on a listening walk this week engaging with nature and looking above and below in the Forest School Area. Once we did this, the children came back into class to write their own poem verses based on nature in the school grounds. The children wrote some lovely verses and even used adjectives to enhance their sentences and poems. Attached is a photo of our class poem with all the children's sentences emerged together.

In maths this week, the children have been exploring 'odd and even' numbers. We have been making patterns and using Numicon to represent odd and even numbers.

In science we have been investigating Dinosaurs and categorising them by many properties such as; are they carnivore or herbivore? Big or small? Do they have longs necks etc? The children enjoyed watching a video all about The Dinosaurs and we had a big class discussion about them. The children have continued to explore The Dinosaur tuff tray set out for them to explore these properties deeper.

This week the EYFS staff have finished The Dinosaur Park role play area and it looks fantastic. The children have been engaged playing, narrating, writing and exploring everything about Dinosaurs. We also made some exciting dinosaur eggs to look after as part of our exciting new Pathways to Write Literacy Topic book 'Gigantosaurus'. The children even recieved a letter from the dinosaurs mummies asking us to look after them.

Well Done, Reception.

Miss Clarke and Mrs Dykes :)