Welcome to Hedgehog's class page!

World Book Day

For World Book Day, we dressed up and explored the book about Elmer the elephant. We read and innovated the story to make a comic strip, then we painted a canvas of him.

Gruffalo Crumble!

In the story, the mouse says his favourite food is Gruffalo crumble, so we made him some alongside the school cook, but we tried it first and it was yummy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Woodlands

As part of our comparing a town to a woodland, we visited Hartshill Hayes to find out about a real woodland. We saw tall trees, log piles, lakes, underground houses and dens. We talked about the Gruffalo story and thought we saw some of the characters from the book!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese New Year

We learnt about and celebrated the new Chinese New Year by creating some decorations and trying some Chinese food - it was delicious!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real Dance PE Sessions

In PE we have been learning about making shapes in dance. We made ourselves wide, tall, short and small and had lots of fun dancing to the music!

Space Rockets

In our space topic we designed and created our own space rockets using junk modelling materials. We asked our parents to come in and join in the fun and see our topic work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Space Topic

In our space topic we have been learning about the different planets in the solar system, the landing on the moon and all about living on a spaceship. We also created some Van Gogh inspired space pictures using different sorts of media.

  

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

We have been learning the story of Goldilocks in our Talk 4 Writing lessons. We also acted out the story and tasted porridge to see if we liked it, most of us did!

   

Looking for Winter

We went outside to spot signs of winter. We saw lots of frost on the ground and on the leaves, we even got it on ourselves!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading

This half-term we have been working hard with our Learning to Read sessions. We have learnt lots of capital letters, tricky words, digraphs and trigraphs! 

Christmas Party

All of Reception had a Christmas party together! We played pass the parcel, musical statues and the best dancer, it was so much fun!

Visit to Church

As part of our learning about celebrations, we had a visit to the local church for Christmas. We sang some Christmas songs and listened to the nativity story.

Gingerbread Making

We have been making our own gingerbread following a recipe using lots of different ingredients. We had to stir the mix, melt the butter and roll out the dough. After, we made the dough into a shape using a cutter and baked it in the oven. When they had cooled down, we ate them. They were delicious!

   

Pantomime

We had a visit from a theatre group who performed the pantomime; Cinderella. It was really funny, and the actors said we were the best behaved school they had been to too!

Divalli

We have been learning about The Festival of Light; Divalli. We made some diva lamps to celebrate using salt dough.

Wedding

As part of our learning about different celebrations, we had a pretend wedding. We had a ceremony, a buffet and some music and dancing. We had a wonderful time!

PE

We have been enjoying our PE lessons, learning lots of different movements and stretches.

  

Talk 4 Writing

In our English lessons we have been learning about The Little Red Hen. We predicted the story, listened to the story, made a story map, then we retold the story using words and actions.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Halloween

We all dressed up in scary costumes to celebrate Halloween!

The Wheels on the Bus

As part of our nursery rhyme learning, we went on a bus and sang The Wheels on the Bus. We got a ticket and travelled to Nuneaton town centre and back. We had a fantastic time!

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance Bikes

This week we are having daily balance bike sessions to improve our balance and steering skills. We had lots of fun learning how to steer our bikes through the correct coloured cones.

Once Upon A Rhyme

This half-term our topic in Reception is 'Once Upon A Rhyme'. We have been learning some nursery rhymes, including Miss Polly, Humpty Dumpty and Incy Wincy Spider.  We have made some fantastic Humpty Dumpty collages and used our maths skills to create our own Incy Wincy spiders with eight legs! The Hedgehog class has also been busy with clay and sticks, creating some fantastic hedgehogs to decorate our classroom. 

       

The hedgehogs have settled well into school, and they are enjoying mixing as a whole class after their sessions with half a class. They have been busy making new friends and getting used to our school routines.