One of the ways we get children ready for writing in Reception is by doing lot’s of fine motor activities to strengthen their hands and fingers. A particular popular fine motor activity is Dough Disco! We learn the moves that we need to do and then put them to music. 

Every Thursday the children in Reception will take part in a PE lesson. The children will need to come into school in their PE kits and they will stay in them all day. Sometimes the PE sessions will be in the school hall and sometimes they will take place outside. When PE is inside, the children will be encourage to take their shoes and socks off themselves at the start of the lesson and to put them back on by themselves at the end.

Today, Reception went into the hall. Kevin taught us how to take our socks and shoes off and put them on a bench carefully. We had lots of fun dancing to the freeze song and gummy bear. Kevin then taught us how to ‘try, try, try again’ with our socks and shoes to get them back on. We all did really well for our first time.

We have been learning about maps and also positional language during the last couple of weeks in Maths. We also had to follow our friends instructions to try and draw a house exactly the same as our friends. Here are some photos of what we have been up to!