Healthy Eating

To launch this terms topic on Food and Healthy Eating the Reception children took a walk to our local Mercadona supermarket, accompanied by our new visitors to the class – Ned Gnome and Florence Flower. Here they were able to witness at first hand the stacking of shelves with fresh bread, the weighing of fresh goods, packing bags and the final payment of our choices. Being able to visualise at first hand the layout of the shop into food types and food groups has led to much discussion and learning about Dairy products, meats, pasta, fruit, vegetables and fish.

The aliens have landed…The beginning of this year saw the arrival of twin aliens, Bob and Pob. Their arrival caused much excitement and has led to many a learning opportunity along the way. Through their untidy nature, we have been able to teach them, and learn a little Ourselves about respecting property and the golden rules.

It became evident that we did not look the same as our Martian visitors so we made comparisons between them and us throughout our 'Ourselves' topic. Another exciting time during this first half term was the visit from Miss Rachael's baby Will, which provided the opportunity to make comparisons between babies, children and adults.

Following this, a hospital was set up. This came in handy for when our next visitor, Winnie the witch, hit a pine tree on her way to the annual witches' party and was able to be treated in the Reception class hospital. On recovery Winnie decided to thank the Reception children by turning the classroom into a witches den for a party of their own.