Hi Parents, another very busy week in Reception class. Our hot air balloons have finally come to fruition and here they are!

We have been busy all week learning about odd and even numbers … the children sorted their home numbers into add and even… some of you live at very high numbers!!

We have done more work on the water cycle making puddles and seeing if they evaporate or shrink in the sun. It was amazing to see them evaporate in front of our eyes on the hot days this week. We decided it was us that has made all the rain today Friday ( as we made so many puddles earlier in the week which had evaporated to form clouds!)

We started a big Father’s day project involving collecting 100’s of stones, painting them followed by some special clay work… unfortunately this project didn’t really work so we had to abandon it and start again on a different Father’s Day idea …

We carried on learning about the lift, thrust , pull ascent and descent of our aeroplane and continued flying around the world using our world maps and meeting children and their families from places as far flung as Vietnam, Peru, Canada and India.

In music we learnt a robot song and how to clap/ play along to the pulse of the piece.

Here are some of the other activities we have undertaken this week:

We also all enjoyed an ice lolly one hot afternoon.

Thank you if you have emailed in a photo of your child being active outside . If you haven’t yet please email a photo to: eshardlow@st-matthews.merton.sch.uk – we are hoping to use them in our forthcoming class assembly. Any snap of your child enjoying life out doors – running/ scooting/ cycling/ climbing/ swinging/ planting/ at the beach and so on.. 

If you are able please can you add a box of crackers/ rice cakes or similar to your shop over the next few weeks as we have run down our stocks! Thank you.

Have a great weekend all.

Erin Bibby