Welcome to the Puffins (Reception)

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Class Teacher

In Reception we like to do a lot of our learning through experimenting and exploring. The children choose where to go and what to do from the moment they arrive – they initiate their own learning from equipment and areas within the classroom and adults join them and support them in their pursuits. We like to get together for carpet time and have different whole class and small adult led activities throughout the day. We focus on Phonics, Maths, Literacy and our Topic during our activities and the children have the opportunity to repeat or extend the activities within our continuous provision areas of learning during our Rainbow Time.

Rainbow time is a very important part of the children’s development and most learning will be introduced through a mixture of carefully planned play and opportunities for the children to choose activities that appeal to them, following their own particular interests. 

Class: Puffins 

Year: Reception 

Topics: Summer 1 – Toys, Summer 2 – Living things and growth 

Communication, language and literacy: 

‘The Sea Saw’ 

Order, retell and rewrite the story.

‘Kippers Toy Box’

Caption writing, speech bubbles.

‘Jack and the Beanstalk’

Retell and order the story, describe characters and settings. 

‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’

Create own version of the story 

Maths:

To 20 and beyond

· Build numbers beyond 10

· Count patterns beyond 10

· Spatial reasoning

· Match, rotate, manipulate

First, then, now

· Adding more

· Taking away

· Compose and decompose 

Find my pattern

· Doubling 

· Sharing and grouping

· Even and odd

· Visualise and build 

On the move 

· Deepening understanding

· Patterns and relationships

· Mapping 

Understanding the world:

· Investigate seasons and weather

· Investigate materials, what materials are toys made out of? What are the best materials?

· Learning about plants and how they grow

· Growing our own beans.

· Life cycle of a caterpillar

· Investigating and tasting fruit 

· Look at a map of the UK and cities, towns, villages near the sea, inland or on islands of the UK. 

· Looking at old and new toys

· Investigate what sort of telephones people used before they had mobiles

· Learning about castles 

Expressive arts and design:

· Listen to storm at sea music contrasting with calm sea music –expressive dance/movement

· Experiment with percussion instruments to accompany the expressive dance

· Provide resources for the pupils to consider what they could make for a teddy so that a child would not lose him

· Make a jointed teddy bear from card and split pins

· Painting bears/toys

· Designing and making castles 

· Observational drawings of plants 

· Butterfly painting 

Physical development:

· Games/ball skills

· Athletics 

Personal, social and emotional:

· Ongoing circle times, discussing feelings, friendships

· What objects are special to you? How would you feel if you lost them?

· What are your favourite toys and why?

RE:

· Which places are special and why?

· Which stories are special and why?

You can contact Mrs Faulkner at:

puffins@martinwilson.shropshire.sch.uk