Category: Reception

Autumn is here 🍂 We have enjoyed reading Owl Babies last week and this week our book of the week is Hedgehogs don’t live in the city! We have been looking for signs of autumn and hedgehogs 🦔      

Ollie’s mum and dad are farmers and so is Ollie! He has explained all about harvesting to Puffins and Penguins today 😊 We are going to visit Ollie’s farm one day soon so he can show us around. We collected tins of food and discussed why we are thankful at this time of year. Later

in Year R we have been very excited listening to the planes fly over our school. We used FlightTracker27 to track the planes. We looked at where they were heading and where they had been. We used a globe to find the locations too. We also discussed our own hoiudays abroad and in the UK.

Meet Grandad Peter and Nanna Pat 💕 In Year R we are very lucky to have Nanna Pat and Grandad Peter come to play with us every week. They both come and help us learn, mixing paint with us, or holding the sellotape. They read us stories and play games too. We learn all about

Learning to understand the difference between letters, words and sentences is tricky business, and takes time and lots of practise to crack! But never fear, we are great learners at Mengham Infants! Today we have been exploring cutting up a sentence and then rebuilding it with exaggerated finger spaces. We then discuss how many words

Evil Pea had trapped the vegetables and fruit! He even stole all our snack! We are now planning how to catch Evil Pea! The children are wondering when Supertato will come and save the day…

In the Autumn term we planted acorns we collect from the forest… Now look at our trees! We had to wait very patiently as oak trees germinate very slowly. Now they are ready to be planted outside :-)

On Hello Yellow day we explored activities that made us feel good! All the children wanted to hold our school pets - Guinea pigs Fluffy Joe and Cookie Zep! Holding and playing with animals made us all feel happy and calm. The Colour Monster is yellow and green when he is happy and calm. We

In our key worker groups we read the story The Colour Monster. The Colour Monster is all mixed up and doesn’t know how he feels! So we helped him to untangle his feelings and recognise each one. Today we sorted happy, sad and angry. Tomorrow we will sort scared, calm and love 💕 We talked