Week 19

Class: Reception Year: 2023 - 2024

Good afternoon everyone,

This week we have continued our topic ‘Space and Sky’. We have read “How to Catch a Star” by Oliver Jeffers and have learnt all about stars this week and explored what they look like. The children have had a look at the different shapes and patterns they make in the sky and learnt that this is called constellations. 

In Literacy this week we designed an invention to catch a star. We thought about how our invention would work and how we would make it. We had lots of fantastic ideas. We also retold the story “How to Catch a Star” focussing on the beginning, middle and end.  We discussed why the boy might have wanted to catch a star and what the children would do with a star. The children used their phonics to write: “I will get the star at night.”

In Art this week, we looked at Starry Night by Van Gogh. We asked the children what they thought about it. Mrs Noble modelled to the children  how to recreate it. We then tried to create our own Starry Night picture using small strokes of our pen.

In Maths this week we have looked at more than and fewer than. The children have worked together to discuss what set of objects have more and what set of objects have fewer. We discussed how the size, colour and type of object does not affect the number of objects.

We started our P.E lesson by pretending to jump as different animals. We then created our own sequence with a star jump, log roll and egg roll. 

On Friday, we enjoyed a wonderful and very busy trip to Jodrell Bank. We learnt all about the Moon, the Earth, the Sun, and objects that reflect or make their own light. We got to explore the grounds, visit the museum and interact with all their activities. We particularly enjoyed looking at how the planets revolve around the sun and making our space helmet. We werevery impressed with the children’s behaviour and how well the engaged and spoke with the staff at the site. Thank you to those parents who volunteered to help and those who came along on the day. We could not do it without you!

Due to the trip, we were unable to do the yellow team show and tell this week. Please could the yellow team bring their show and tells bag next week instead.

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week!