Today's special visitors

Today (Friday) we had some very special visitors! Paul and Sarah came to Reception to tell us about CHINA. They introduced us to our two new babies - Yang Yang (girl) and Xiao Wang (boy), we will be looking after these two babies for the next week now. Paul and Sarah showed us a DVD of how people live in China and explained lots of interesting facts. 'Ni hao' Paul and Sarah (hello).

 This is the flag of China!

Sarah showed us how chinese children put their hands up to answer a question in school.

 We were very good at it!

 Then Sarah showed us how children in China point to themselves - by touching their noses!!

 This is a special hat that many of the children wear in China.

 This is how children drink their soup from bowls - no spoons!!

We listened very carefully and look forward to Paul and Sarah visiting us again! 'xie xie, zai jian Paul & Sarah (thank you, goodbye!)

K&U - taste buds

This week we have been using our 'taste buds' to taste different things! We found out that some things are sweet (sugar), salty (salt) and sour (lemon). Then we made cakes with lots of different toppings and colours to explore those different tastes!!

K&U - frogs!!

We had a wonderful time up at our pond looking again at the frogs (who had disappeared completely) and thinking about the 'life cycle of a frog'. We saw the 'frogspawn' in the pond and talked about how that develops into tadpoles (there were lots of these), then froglets and finally into adult frogs! and so the cycle begins again!

 Here we are cutting out the four stages of the life cycle and putting them into the right order.

 And we coloured in lots of different frogs too!

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We've had some visitors in Reception! They are two beautiful babies called Kofi and Handa. They are cousins and they live in Uganda in Africa. Mrs Carter introduced us to them and we looked on the plasma to find where they lived and found out some information about their country.

 We've taken it in turns to look after our new visitors, they have been in both Mrs Carter's class and Mrs Abel's class. We have shown them what we do in Reception and have taken them into assembly and out to the yard with us aswell.

The Gingerbread Man

 This week we have been looking at the story of 'The Gingerbread Man'. We listened to the story and then thought very carefully about what answers we needed to give to some hard questions that Mrs Abel and Mrs Carter asked us about the pictures on the plasma.   

Afterwards we took it in turns to role play the story using masks and props. It was fun being the gingerbread man and being chased by the different characters!  

 We had great fun with the ginger smelling playdough - making rafts for the gingerbread man to get across the river, decorating a gingerbread man and making lots of gingerbread men to put in the oven and enjoyed designing our own gingerbread man too!

 We painted the different characters from the story and we cut out gingerbread men paper chain families, thinking of how many were in our own family homes. We put the names of our family members onto the paper chains too.

     We retold the story trying hard to sound out the words/sentences using our Jolly Phonic knowledge; some of us used a wordmat to help.  

                                                                                                         

And of course we got to make gingerbread men too! We measured, mixed, rolled out, cut and decorated both gingerbread men and women!

And just before we went home we all got to taste them - YUMMY!!