This week’s poem is called Pointy Hat. In this poem, we focussed on some key words and their meanings: pointed (having an end that gets sharper at the point) and tumbled (to look hard or closely to see something better).
Author: Mr Wilks
Poetry Basket: Five Little Pumpkins
This week’s poem is called Five Little Pumpkins. In this poem, we focussed on some key words and their meanings: tumbled (to fall down or roll around). We also talked about the ordinal numbers first, second and third.
Magnets!
Today, we explored magnets and carried out simple tests to find out which objects were magnetic and which weren’t. We grouped the objects and looked for links between the materials they were made from and whether they were magnetic. We even discovered some surprising things that happen when two magnets are brought together!
Poetry Basket: Falling leaves
This week’s poem is called Falling Leaves and has an autmunal theme that links well with our learning about seasonal changes.
Poetry Basket: Breezy Weather
This week’s poem is called Breezy Weather. Hope you enjoy the performance!
Autumn Hunt
Thank you for finding and bringing in so many autumn treasures. This afternoon, we sat on The Green in the sunshine and explored and talked about the pinecones, conkers, acorns, sticks, leaves, feathers and other autumnal objects you found on your hunts. We then sorted and grouped them in different ways, such as by their size or colour.
We also found time to count tyres and trees – and, of course, have a play on the trim trail!
Poetry Basket: Chop chop
Welcome to our first Poetry Basket performance! Each week our Reception pupils learn and perform a new poem. We practise throughout the week before sharing our performance video every Friday. This week, we’re kicking things off with Chop Chop! Enjoy!
Poetry Basket: Five little peas
This week’s poem is called Five little peas.
We’ve been focussing on the words pea pod (part of the pea) and pressed (pushed).
Poetry Basket: Monkey babies
This week’s poem is called Monkey babies
We’ve been focussing on the words swamp (ground where water collects), lurking (staying in a place quietly, like hiding) and breeze (a soft and gentle wind).
PE – throwing and catching!
In PE lessons this half-term, we’ve been developing our throwing and catching skills. We’ve played games where we throw a ball back and forth with a partner, taking a step back after each pair of successful passes. We’ve also practised accurate throwing by creating towers out of cones which we then try to knock down by throwing the ball at them.
