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Today we created our own magic beans for Jack to use to grow a beanstalk! We used lots of colours, shapes and patterns! 

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Today we are going to experiment with gingerbread. After reading the Gingerbread man, we are going to question what would happen to him if he fell in the river. We will make predictions. We will question what would happen if he fell into different liquids? We will make hypotheses. We will observe…

Today we worked in small teams to represent amounts 0-10 on the tens frame! We subitised, talked about the part whole, talk about doubles and found 1 less and 1 more! The reception maths skills are amazing! There was lots of excellent teamwork! 

We've been exploring mass and capacity by using the weighing scales to measure out chocolate and cornflakes. We've then explored different sized spoons and scoops to put the mixture into the cupcake cases. 

Today we have had great fun experimenting with Spray Paint.
I think that our “tags” look great. 
 

We have we learning about the importance of the dragon in the Lunar New Year. We have created a huge dragon head ready for our dragon dances this week! 

We had a fantastic time at Tamworth Castle. We learnt about armour, weapons, artefacts and also tried our hands at archaeology. The instructors (and our teachers!) were so impressed with our fantastic behaviour and enthusiasm on the trip.

We used mud to explore painting Chinese symbols in our forest school session. 

This week in maths, we have been measuring in millimetres, centimetres and metres. We have also been converting between the different measures. Today, we measured the height of our friends and calculated how tall they were in cm and m.

For Parents - Lemon8 App

Lemon8 is an app which seems to be growing in popularity. Calling itself a 'lifestyle community' app the terms and conditions, as per most social media, is 13+. The company which owns Lemon8 is ByteDance, who also own TikTok and it's essentially a mix between Instagram…

We used sounds to build civic words on a Chinese New Year Dragon! There was some super sounding and segmenting to spell!