This week, we’ve been learning about the human body. Before introducing our focus called See inside Your Body, I asked the children, “Does anybody know a fact about the human body?”
JQ – The skull protects your brain.
TH – This is your knee bone.
LC – Sometimes when you fall over, your body bleeds.
AP – Your heart beats 1,500 beats a day. My Mummy told me that.
HM – Your heart pumps blood around your body.
FlM – “The longest bone in your body is your leg and the shortest is in your ear.
SL – Whatever you do, your skeleton copies that.
We’ve looked at the human skeleton, drew pictures of our own skeletons and labelled some of the 206 bones we have in our body! The children were amazed that babies have about 300 bones! We also had lots of fun learning the skeleton dance.
We also looked at some x-ray pictures. We talked x-rays are important and why we might have one.
On Wednesday, we learnt about our five senses – hearing, touch, sight, smell and taste. We went on a senses walk around school and drew pictures of things we could hear, touch, see and smell. We talked about the sense we didn’t use and the children drew a picture of something they ate at snack time or for lunch.
PE
On Monday, the children practised their skipping skills. Many children found skipping quite tricky. Miss Gaunt was very impressed with their fantastic determination and perseverance.
Maths
This week, we introduced the Rekenreks to the children. We continued to practise our subitising skills by using our ‘fast eyes’ to subitise the beads on a Rekenrek. A Rekenrek allows the children to further develop their subitising skills as they explore the structure of small numbers, while building a foundation for further learning in Year 1.
We know to make sure all the beads are at the right-hand side of the rack. This is called the ‘ready position’. We then pause (think), place (one finger) and push (the beads) using the ‘one finger push’ method.
Poetry picnic
This week’s poem was all about looking after baby monkeys. Click here to watch us.
Here are some highlights from our last week of Summer 1…
Butterfly news
This afternoon, we released 3 of our butterflies! We got to watch one of the butterflies emerging from its chrysalis.
Reminders
- Now the weather’s getting warmer, please remember to apply your child’s sun cream before they come to school! Your child can reapply their sun cream before lunch with adult guidance.
- Please continue to read your e-books and your favourite stories next week.
- Next half-term, PE will continue to be on Monday and Thursday.
- Tuesday 06 June – Class photos
- Monday 19 June -Parent presentation (Zoom): Reception to Y1 transition
Well, that’s another half-term done and dusted. 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 05 June for your final half-term in Reception.