Reception go on a Minibeast Hunt!
The excitement is building in the Reception classes as we watch our caterpillars getting bigger and bigger!
The children cannot wait to see them begin to form their chrysalis’ and are already talking about the best places to release the butterflies. We have been using a story map of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ to help us develop our story language and, on Monday, we received a letter from the butterfly asking us to list all the foods she ate so that she could tell the baby caterpillars. The children wrote some fantastic lists, and we were so impressed to see them using adjectives independently to describe. We had delicious strawberries, plums and sticky chocolate cake!
In our number work we have been deepening our understanding of teens numbers and the children have enjoyed booking their pets in for treatments at the vets and paying with real money! The children thought the vets were very expensive, but we felt that 17p for an operation was quite good value!
Outside of the classroom, the children have made folded caterpillars in Forest School and on Wednesday we ventured out, with our magnifying glasses, on a minibeast hunt. The children found beetles, woodlice, centipedes and lots of slugs. Their excitement on discovering creatures under the upturned logs was wonderful and we decided we would definitely come back again to look for some more. It has truly been a wonderful week.
Mrs Sheldon and Mrs Manchorova
