What a brilliant morning of PE in Reception today. We have worked in our Crews to complete challenges at different stations. We all worked hard and had lots of fun!
Category : Class 1
Spring time
We explored the outdoors, looking for signs of spring in our environment. We then talked about what we saw in crew and shared our ideas:
Getting creative
We then looked closely at spring flowers and used different media and materials to create our own:
Outdoors at William’s Den
We had a wet and muddy afternoon but everybody loved it…
Fieldwork: William’s Den March 2022!
We have had the best morning inside at William’s Den… after we refuel with lunch we are going to explore the outdoors. No amount of rain is going to spoil our day. 🌧🌧
Pancake Day…
We had a fabulous time on Shrove Tuesday in EYFS … we mixed pancakes, we investigated the ingredients needed to make pancakes, we ate pancakes and we had a pancake race on the big field.
Story time
We have enjoyed reading the story of Hansel and Gretel. We went into the woods for a special story time.
Our local area:
Special People
We have been thinking about people who are special to us and have talked about why they are special to us.
We have been busy creating gifts for some of the special people in our lives.
More engineering in the early years:
Wooden blocks to make a garage for the vehicles. 
Aqua beads to make Elmer the elephant 
Making food for a tea party. 
“I’ve made a really tall tower” 
A house for one of The Three Little Pigs. 
Designing and making a house in the construction area. 
Creating a stage for singing and dancing. 
Copying a model to build a house out of lollipop sticks. 
Using our imaginations…making a slide out of planks. 
Copying a model carefully 
Another super house. 
“I’ve made a new triangle house for one of The Three Pigs”. 
Building a dinosaur kingdom. 
Using plastic bricks to make a house. 
Designing and making a house using straws and wooden blocks.
Early Years Engineers
We have been busy in our Reception classes building, creating and making:
A home for the animals 
A tent to sleep in 
Mending the climbing frame 
“We are fixers” 
Helping each other 
Building a boat to live in 
“A house for my chickens” 
‘A house of sticks” 
“It’s my house” 
The Three Little Pigs house of straw 
“My house of sticks for the Three Little Pigs” 
“A kingdom house in London” 
‘A triangle house” 
Paper people 
“A BIG HOUSE!”
Celebrating Autumn
We have been looking at the changes in our outdoor area. We noticed that the leaves have changed colour and have been falling from the trees. We have also enjoyed working collaboratively to paint pictures using autumn colours.
Number 4
We have been representing and making 4 in different ways. We have had great fun making paper people….can you count how many people there are in the set?
Being kind to ourselves and others
A recipe for being a good friend
We have talked about the qualities of a good friend. We need to be kind, listen, take turns, share and look after each other if we are to be a good friend. We designed some posters:
We have also been kind to our environment. We have been working hard together to tidy up our garden area, especially now all of the leaves are blowing off of the trees:
HoWLs:
At the end of the week we had a fabulous poster designed in the mark making area. This poster now sits proudly on display in the classroom to remind us all of the HoWLs in Class 1:
