Week ending 7th March 2025
Hello and a warm welcome back to this weeks class blog. What a fabulous week we have had using the text Oliver's Fruit Salad as the focus for our learning. Let's take a look at our lovely invitations to come and play this week 
We started the week off by looking at the fruit from the story. We explored plums, strawberries, cherries, pineapples and discovered by looking at the packaging where the fruit came from. We plotted their journey on a world map. The lemon we tried came from the USA, the pineapple came all the way from Costa Rica, the plums travelled from South Africa and the strawberries came from Europe
After plotting the journey on the world map we set about describing what they looked like and how they smell. We had some really interesting answers to these questions. Take a look at our writing below
Then came the best bit. The taste test! We used words such as sour, tangy, juicy, fruity, delicious. Well done everyone for having a go! We discovered we had some new fruity favourites!
One of our other fruity challenges this week in provision has been to read the apples before adding them to the fruit basket. The children loved the timer and used their Fred talk to great effect! Keep up the practice at home everyone
We have also been doing some independent writing this week and creating lists of fruits that we like. The children are working so hard developing their writing and we are encouraging them to keep saying the word they are writing aloud to help them segment the sounds.
This week in the creative area we have explored colour and shape. We have created observational drawings of fruit using pencils ad learning how to create dark marks, light marks and how to use the side of our pencil to add shading to our work. We have also explored the word on Kandinksy - an artist who created concentric shapes that change colour and get smaller and smaller. The children created some truly wonderful masterpieces this week
We also celebrated Pancake Day. We started off by listening to the story of the Runaway Pancake - a little like the Gingerbread Man story - we made pancakes in our play kitchen, we added toppings and flavours to pancakes at the writing table, we tossed and ordered number pancakes in the maths area and read words on pancakes in our phonics space! Phew what a lot of pancake fun. Have a look and see
In Maths this week we have been using NumberBlocks to help us learn about the order of numbers and adding one more on using stem sentences such as 6 is made up of 5 and one more. Here we in Maths action
We also created our own favourite story front cover. We talked about, researched the cover and added the title. We are going to use these to create a World Book Day
And finally we finish the week on a high! World Book Day. The children look absolutely amazing and we have absorbed ourselves in books and stories all day long. Perfect! Here we are developing our love of books and reading 
Next week our text of the week will be The Growing Story. If you would like to watch and listen to the story before Monday please click the link below
Have a wonderful weekend
Staff and Children in Reception W