Happy Eid Reception Callaghan.

We have had a fantastic week doing lots of crafts and making our Eid decorations. 

To start our week off we had our Monday Phonics Stay and Play, we did lots of new activities and we were so happy to see lots of parents attend again too. 

This week we have really enjoyed our morning activities and we have been able to use our new loose part gems to create some different patterns. We have also cut out some minibeast pictures and created our own back garden relating to our theme 'at the bottom of the garden' this half term. 

In Drawing Club this week we have been reading 'The very hungry Caterpillar'. We have found this story so funny and couldn't believe how greedy the caterpillar was. We shared with each other what fruit and foods we like. 

We looked at a video of a caterpillar in a cocoon and it turning in to a beautiful butterfly. 

In Maths this week we have been looking at equal amounts we used some counters to share between our friends and showed each pile of counters having equal amounts to each other. 

Reception have really enjoyed decorating their Mosque tuff tray in time for Eid. We used different loose parts to decorate our mosque we looked at all the different shapes that was on the building and we watched some videos on why Mosques are such a special place. We loved sharing our own personal experiences inside a Mosque during circle time. 

On Monday after school we started to sell our Eid Decorations that we handmade ourselves. We used paint and water colours to make different coloured patterns and then we used different star stickers to decorate our moon with. We really enjoyed making them for our families. 

On Tuesday we celebrated St Patrick's Day, we learnt who celebrate this day and why it is celebrated. We looked at videos of street festivals celebrating this special day in Ireland. 

To celebrate we learnt what a Shamrock is and why it is so special to Irish people. To celebrate we decorated our own Shamrock's to take home. 

This week in Reception we have started to introduce Mountain Challenges. Miss Callaghan leaves some challenges out when we do the challenges we can then find our face on the mountain and move ourselves up to the top!! We have been so so excited to do that this week and we have loved seeing our faces on the wall it has been really funny!

On Wednesday we celebrated Red Nose Day. We all came to school wearing something red. We learnt about what Red Nose Day is and why we raise money for this special day. 

We created our own Red Noses by using different red medias such as red tissue paper, red cellophane, red glitter sticker and red gems.