•    Learning to recognise numbers 
•    Looking at balancing scales and how much different amounts of conkers weigh
•    Talking about autumn and the changes which are taking place 
•    Making soup from autumn vegetables
•    Going for an autumn walk around the village
•    Visiting Thrift Farm 
•    Going to Church and taking part in the Harvest worship
•    Looking at leaves and talking about what they look like and then painting with them
•    Drawing and writing about what we found on our walk and at Thrift Farm
•    Playing in our outside farm shop    

​•    Working on our counting skills and comparing amounts
•    Continuing to develop our skills in working with others in the classroom
•    Planting some cress and watching it grow 
•    Learning the letter s, a, t and p during phonics lessons 
•    Painting fingerprint animals from the farm 
•    Continuing to build our farm shop
•    Working on our fine motor skills in our funky fingers area 
•    Talking about foods which are good for us or a treat
•    Making bread rolls 
•    Creating a pictogram of Acorns Favourite Fruits 
•    Growing cress and talking about what we can use it for 
•    Looking at The Enormous Turnip and The Little Red Hen in English time   

​•    Working on our counting skills and talking about one more and one less 
•    Continuing to develop our skills in working with others in the classroom
•    Making sure that our scarecrow is ready to protect our crops 
•    Working on setting up our outdoor kitchen so that we can start to cook in it 
•    Cooking our vegetables and turning them into soup to keep us warm 
•    Writing shopping lists for our outside market stall 
•    Looking at animal babies and matching them to their mothers 
•    Talking about what harvest means to us and why we give harvest boxes 
•    Finishing planting our daffodils to make our garden look pretty in the spring 
•    Using tractors to complete some harvest art 
•    Using seeds and oats to create some art 
•    Designing our own Christmas cards (yes, I said the word!!)  

·      Starting to talk about harvest and life on the farm

·      Building our own small world farm yard

·      Working together to build a big scarecrow to protect our playground

·      Talking about our favourite fruit and vegetables

·      Deciding which fruits and vegetables are grown in the United Kingdom

·      Starting to work on our phonic skills

·      Being given our first reading book

·      Exploring our new outdoor kitchen and learning to work with each other

·      Starting to practice our harvest song

·      Planting some daffodils and talking about when they will grow 

·      Learning all about ourselves and our families.

·      Making gingerbread men.

·      Talking about our homes and where we live.

·      Starting to talk about our bodies and comparing our heights.

·      Sharing with each other what we are good at.

·      Learning to take turns with our friends. 

Acorns have had a very busy start to the term, we all made animal potatoes for the Great Horwood Produce Show, they looked brilliant:

· Learning all about boats and keeping safe near water.

· Making boats from Lego and the big bricks.

· Making paper boats and blowing them with straws; having a race!

· Making treasure maps, labelling them, using positional language and writing a message in a bottle.

· Finding out how many cubes a boat can hold before it sinks.

· Investigating floating and sinking.

· Experimenting with the height and flow of water in the guttering and measuring how far the boats will go.

· Reading and acting out the story of Captain Duck.

· Going for our end of year picnic!

 

· Learning all about trains.

· Talking and reading stories about going on a train ride.

· Investigating making train tracks with cotton reels and paint.

· Painting pictures of what we might see out of the window.

· Building our own train with the big bricks.

· Writing about train journeys.

· Using ordinal numbers—first, second etc.

· Setting up the train track in lots of different ways.

· Looking after the chickens.

 

· Learning about road transport and how different vehicles move.
· Measuring how far cars travel down ramps with different surfaces.
· Going for a walk round the village, carrying out a transport survey and making a pictogram of the results.
· Looking at Great Horwood using a street map.
· Talking about Great Horwood - what is special about it? How is it different to Milton    Keynes?
· Learning about emergency vehicles and who comes to help us in an emergency.
· Practising road safety outside.

·         Starting to think about our new theme of ‘Home and Away’.
·         Talking and writing about our journeys we have made.
·         Talking about different types of transport we know and  places we have been.
·         Making a map of our journey to school.
·         Learning about how transport has changed over the ages.
·         Making model vehicles.
·         Measuring the distances vehicles travel

All parents of reception children are invited to our Ugly Bug Ball on the 20th May at 2.30pm.  The children will be sharing what they have learnt this term, we hope to see you then.  Don't forget to send your child into school that day dressed as a bug!

As part of our work on minibeasts we are planning to hold an ‘Ugly Bug Ball’ on Wednesday the 20th May.  Please could the children come to school that day dressed in a simple minibeast costume– either real or imaginary.

We will be inviting parents to come to school in the afternoon to take part in our Ugly Bug Ball and see what the children have been learning this term.

Please come and ask if you have any questions.