We have had a very fun week in Reception. The best and most exciting job we have done is making a boat in teams and then racing them and testing them to see which would travel the longest distance in the quickest time as well as carrying a load at the same time. The children were very clever to say that they would rather that their boat would carry the smoke cannons (cotton wool) because they were the lightest and therefore they wouldn’t weigh the boat down and make it sink. The children were also great at making sensible judgements about other loads the boats could carry and adapting their designs. We have also been drawing on our own story stones and thinking about something that may change the story ending to ‘The Troll’ by Julia Donaldson. We have also been creating our own sea creature and pirate dance using dance symbols and have changed them about to make the dance different.

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BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!! If you go into our classroom you may get a shock… A huge monster reading den has appeared. He loves reading and so do the children in this monster den!!!!