Reception - Elm Class

Weekly News 28.3.25

This week:

In Literacy, we have been reading 'The Bad Seed' by Jory John. The little seed makes some wrong choices and than decides to be good. This is a lovely story about how we can all make wrong and right choices and we just try our best. The children have written sentences about the seed and have drawn some amazing pictures showing the seed happy and sad.

In Maths, we have been working on 3D shapes and using shape language to describe their propoerties, such as flat faces, curved surfaces, edges and vertices. The children have enjoyed exploring and seeing which shapes stack, roll and slide and why this happens.

In P.E we are working on jumping skills and worked on activities that enabled us to jump over a bench and land safely. The children all enjoy the P.E lessons and are determined to practise the skills until they master them.

This week we have been learning about Ramadan and the Eid celebrations that some of our families will be enjoying this weekend and early next week. We have attended a whole school Eid assembly and completed the Eid Trail with our Year 5/6 buddies. It was great fun! Next week we will be moving onto our Easter activities and learning about the Christian Religious Festival of Easter.

In continuous provision in the classroom the children have been exploring plants and seeds, making puppets of the bad seed, sorting pictures that show right and wrong choices, making flowers using tools such as scissors. Outdoors, the children made birthday cakes, using twigs and sticks as candles. They sang the birthday song to their friends and teachers as they presented them with the cake. They also spent time on the monkey bars and discovered more insects now that the weather is warmer and they enjoyed observing woodlice on the path.