This week, we’ve been learning about the human body. Before introducing our focus called See inside Your Body, I asked the class if anybody knew any facts about the human body.
Ta – The heartbeat helps us get red blood around our tummies.
Po – Our neck is really important
Ell – Lungs help us breath.
Gur – We have a brain.
Tee – We have to have bones.
We looked at the human skeleton, drew pictures of skeletons and labelled some of the 206 bones we have in our body! We also had lots of fun learning the skeleton dance. We also looked at some x-ray pictures and talked about why we might have one.
Role-play
In the home corner, we’ve had a very busy doctors’ surgery! Many of our children turned into doctors and nurses. They’ve been checking heart beats, putting bandages on and giving medicine to help their patients feel better.
Butterflies
On Monday, we released our butterflies! We enjoyed waving goodbye when watching them fly away.
Poetry Picnic
This week’s poem was called The Fox. When learning this poem, we shared lots of our own experiences about foxes.
Je – I’ve seen three foxes before. When we were in our old house we saw a baby fox.
Tho – I’ve seen a fox through my car window creeping along the edge of the road near a bush.
Poppy – I saw a fox in my garden and it jumped over my fence.
Phonics
This week, we’ve been learning to read and write words ending in:
- – ing
For example, squelching, twisting - – ed =/t/
For example, bumped, cracked - -ed = /id/
For example, grunted, trusted - -est
For example, plumpest, freshest
We also learnt the last two phase 4 tricky words.
Help at home: Practise reading and writing the phase 4 tricky words.
I can’t believe we’ve only got only one half-term left in Reception. Where has this year gone?
I hope you all have a fantastic week off. Don’t forget to send me lots of pictures. See you on Monday 2nd June for your final half-term in Reception.