Christ Church C of E Primary School, Clifton
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Clifton BRISTOL BS8 3AW
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Reception - Antarctica and Emperor penguins

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We have had an action packed and fact filled week this week in reception. On Monday afternoon we found we had been visited by penguins who left a chick egg behind. We were asked the question “Could we have an emperor penguin as a school pet?” We started by reading The Emperor’s Egg by Martin Jenkins and used the book to help us learn about Emperor penguins. In PE we learnt to waddle like penguins and using balls, how to look after our eggs and huddle like the male penguins do to keep warm in Antarctica.

We have been learning our vowel digraphs in phonics. We really impressed Mr Lusted when he came to teach phonics in both classes with how well we listened and how well we knew our tricky words and the vowel digraphs we had learnt so far.

We have been working on specific skills this week. We have been making sure we are holding our pencils with a tripod grip. We demonstrated this skill by following instructions to draw penguins. We impressed our adults by then remembering how to use watercolours independently to paint our Emperor Penguin pictures.

We carried out a STEM challenge where we used warm blue water and salt to free the penguins that were frozen. We noticed that by using the salt the ice melted faster. It still took a long time to melt as it was so cold this week! We rescued three penguins from the ice.

We read the book Snowballs by Lois Ehlert and used this book to create our own snow family using loose parts and things we found. We really enjoyed this activity and creating our snow people.

We still had time for maths where we were learning to make 5. We have enjoyed using Numicon, loose parts and other number resources to find ways to make 5.

We ended our week using our cutting skills to order the life cycle of a penguin and to make penguins by rolling paper around a tube and using collage materials. We will share a picture next week of our penguins.

We have had a great week an cannot wait to continue learning about the Arctic next week.

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