EYFS Mrs Barker 2021-2022

Ophie brought a birds nest in to share with the class. We looked carefully at the different things that it was made from and how the twigs and grasses had been weaved together to make the nest shape. The children thought it was amazing and wanted to know how birds make their nests.
We watched a…

We really enjoyed our PE session today. We practised some of the games ready for Sports Day. Super throwing, balancing, dribbling and jumping.

Our new topic is called Build It Up.  So far, we have been exploring different tools that are needed for building, looking at different types of buildings and having a go at making our own constructions.

When we explored different buildings we noticed that some buildings were decorated with…

Today, during our Time to Talk session, we looked at Traffic Jams. We talked about what it means when vehicles are stuck in a jam.

To see what a traffic jam looks like, we created a road map.  We cut out lots of different pieces of road and placed cars in a big queue.

The reason for this…

Today, we had a very special visitor, Eve our Lollipop Lady, who came to talk to us about Road Safety. We listened carefully to Eve talking about why she needs to do her job and how she helps to keep us safe. We went into our outdoor area and practised crossing the road, waiting for the car to…

In the story, the Naughty Bus whizzed past the line of people waiting at the bus stop.  We explored the words passenger and queue and talked about what these words mean.  We re-recreated this part of the story using lots of different toys to make a queue and the small wooden blocks to build the…

Welly Wednesday was full of fun and sunshine today. To continue with our topic of Transport we have been drawing maps of our school grounds. We stopped in various places on our walk and looked carefully at our surroundings. We then took turns to draw what we could see on to our large pieces of…

When we arrived at school this morning we noticed that a parcel had been left on Mrs Barker’s chair. It was addressed to the children in Reception. We were very excited and quickly read the letter to see who it was from.

You’ll never guess.................it was from The Naughty Giant and The…

In our new topic we have been exploring seeds.  We have looked at different fruits and vegetables and noticed that seeds come in lots of different shapes and sizes and even colours.

We read the story Everywhere Farm and found out that you can grow seeds absolutelt anywhere as long as you give…

We really enjoy exploring colour mixing in Reception and we love our new colour mixing station.  We carefully chose 2 different colours and squeeze a tiny blob into the little mixing pots to see which colours we can make. 

When we have painted our pictures we take all of our washing up to the…

I love all the little 'In the Moment' activities that happen based on the children's interests.

Whilst I was cutting some cardboard, one of the children asked if he could have a piece.  He happily took it away and I watched as he created a Giant.

The Giant then caused mayhem around the…

What a lovely morning we all had taking part in the Pancake Races which were held on the village green.

All of the children ran with big smiles on their faces and enjoyed a lovely chocolate treat as a prize for taking part.

A big thankyou to everyone who helped to make this event so…