Reception's blog - week beginning May 3rd

Date: 7th May 2021 @ 12:17pm

Hello everyone,

It's been a shorter week, but we seemed to have packed in just as much as normal even with the unpleasant weather. Our main maths focus has been counting back numbers from 20 (essentially subtracting), and this has been a really positive piece of learning, with lots of the children becoming very confident using number lines.

The children are really enjoying the Star in the Jar story which we have been doing as our Talk for Writing text, and next week the children will be begin writing instructions for how to catch a star, based on this story. 

The weather put pay to a great Forest Schools lesson this week, but I think we made up for it by exploring how magnets work in science on Tuesday, which the children loved. 

We are working primarily this term to prepare the children for Year 1, as time is ticking towards the end of summer term. As a result there has been a reduction in their