Reception – Let’s Celebrate!

Reception – Let’s Celebrate!

In Reception this half term we have been learning about different celebrations. We started by learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali. We looked at how people celebrate the festival of lights and made our own rangoli patterns and Diwa lamps. We then looked at Bonfire night and talked about fire safety. We were really lucky to get a visit from the local fire station. The children were so excited to go on the fire engine, use the hose and learn about the firefighters’ equipment.

In literacy, the children had the opportunity to be exposed to writing in a fun and interactive way through ‘Drawing Club’ which ‘opens up the magic world of tales and story to children whilst at the same time enriching their language skills, developing their fine motor and sharing really special time with them’. Drawing club as the name suggests starts with a drawing, focussed on the character, setting or a magical event. Then through focussed writing practice, children together learn the joy of writing, using phonics and the conventions of a sentence. The children loved drawing Lucy-Lou and Mrs Santa and added some great passwords that made the pictures come to life!

Finally, it was time to celebrate Christmas. The ‘Land of Faraway’ was turned into Santa’s workshop and the children had lots of fun wrapping presents, writing cards and pretending to be Santa and his elves. We had a Christmas craft day making cards, eco-friendly Christmas decorations and reindeer food. We also worked really hard to help the Grinch to enjoy Christmas a little more!

We all worked so hard to bring the nativity story to life in our end of year play! The children were fantastic on stage and made us all proud. Well done Reception!