What a yummy week we have had!  After re-reading the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar, we decided to have a go at making our very own fruit salad, using the actual fruits from the story.  We were so impressed by how keen the children all were to have a go!

First, they had to think about using the knife very carefully to chop up the fruit.

“You need to chop it smaller”

“I’m good at cutting, look you just go back and forwards and back and forwards!”

Next, they had to mix the fruit together in the big bowl.  After that, they had to spoon the fruit salad out into their cup.  And finally, and most importantly, they could eat it!

“Mmmm, it’s nice”

“I want to eat it all up and have a big piece of melon, yummy in my tummy!”

The children are now really familiar with the story and they have really enjoyed re-telling it and exploring it in a variety of ways…

We have also been singing lots of number songs this week – one of our favourites, which also links nicely with our ‘Out of the Egg’ topic, is about 5 Little Speckled Frogs…perhaps you know it?

You might like to sing it together at home…

Finally, we also had our first ‘Wow Assembly’ today!  Each Friday, the Reception children will be joining us to take a peek inside our enormous ‘Wow Books’.  This is where we keep all the yellow ‘wow cards’ that you send into us.  Each week, we will share some of these ‘wow moments’ with the children and those spoken about will receive a special sticker.  Please note, we will only read out a few wow moments each week, so if you have already sent in a wow card, and your child did not receive their sticker today, please be assured that we will get to them in the weeks to come.  We will be making sure that each child has a wow moment to be celebrated. Well done to all our wow children this week – we are so proud of you and all the wonderful things you have been doing!

We finished our assembly with a special prayer to thank God for all the wonderful things we can do!