Our new topic this term is called “Animals All Around.”

We will be exploring animals from all around the world, beginning with animals that live in cold environments and linking this to winter weather. As the term progresses, the children will learn about jungle animals, dinosaurs, and familiar animals from stories such as Dear Zoo and Elmer.

As part of our Geography learning, we will be focusing on the weather in the UK. The children will explore different types of weather and how the weather changes throughout the seasons.

In History, we will be learning about our school in the past. The children will explore old photographs and compare what school life was like then and now. 

In Art, Reception children will be creating sculptures by designing and making their own clay animals. 

 

Week 2

Week 2 Owl Board

 

Week 1

Week 1 Owl Board

We’ve been busy counting and comparing in Maths. The children practised using the language of more and fewer while working with our penguin characters. They carefully placed a given number of penguins onto an iceberg, using 1:1 correspondence to make sure each penguin was counted accurately. Once their groups were complete, the children compared their icebergs with their friends’—discussing who had more penguins and who had fewer.

Our weekly ICT sessions have focused on developing confident mouse control. Children have been practising how to use the mouse buttons to select tools with increasing accuracy and create simple drawings with control.

Inspired by the poem Cold by Shirley Hughes, the children have been exploring the beauty of winter through art and poetry. They created their own mixed‑media winter collages, experimenting with textures and materials to show frosty scenes. The children used these to create their own poems, such as snow falling, ice twinkling, frost crunching. A lovely celebration of the season!