Etz Chaim Jewish Primary School
Reception 24-25
Welcome to our Headline of the week. This will give you a small taster of some of the learning taking place in your child’s class.
We hope you enjoy reading our Headlines each week.
23/05/25. We have been using numicon and counting objects to help us with our maths.
16/05/25 . We have continued our alien and space topic and made our own rockets!
09/05/25
We made moon dough!
02/05/25
We have continued our alien and space topic and some of us have drawn and labelled our own aliens!
25/04/25
We have been reading ‘Alien’s Love Underpants’ and washed and hung up some pants!
04/04/25
We have been reading the story ‘Avocado Baby’ and made a cot for our baby bear!
28/03/25
We have been learning about 3D shapes and have been making 3D shape towers
21/03/25
We have been using big chalk to practise our letter formation and phonics!
14/03/25
We made own cafe outside and named it ‘the Boneshaker cafe!’
07/03/24
We have been reading ‘The Growing Story’ and have grown and watered our own plants.
28/02/25
We read the story ‘Alan’s Big Scary Teeth’ and practised brushing teeth!
14/02/25
We have been looking at length in maths and compared our block towers!
07/02/25
We have been reading the ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and wrote our own story maps.
31/01/25
We made boats and tested if they would float or sink!
24/01/25
. We have been reading The Three Billie Goat’s Gruff and made this Lego bridge for the goats to walk over!
17/01/25
We made Granny’s cottage!
10/01/25
We have been focusing on Goldilocks and the Three Bears and we wrote our own story maps
20/12/24
. We did finger painting to create our beautiful chanukias!
13/12/24 We have been ordering numbers and subitising!
06/12/24
We have puzzle time every Wednesday afternoon. We enjoy working together to complete our puzzles.
29/11/24
We have been learning about circles and went on a circle hunt around the school!
22/11/24 We made road safety signs
11/10/24
We have made a play café and have been writing down our customer’s orders in our notebooks!
27/09/24
In maths we have been sorting objects and matching objects
20/09/24
Some of the children created this huge circle using unifix cubes! They showed good team work and discussed which colours they wanted to put together!
13/09/24
The children have been enjoying playing outside and using all the construction equipment. Some of the children used the letter logs to create a bridge to walk over!
23/05/25. Some of us made an experiment and wrote about it on clipboards!
16/05/25 . We have continued our alien and space topic and made our own rockets!
09/05/25
We made moon dough!
02/05/25
We have enjoyed being in the sunshine and looking at shapes and patterns!
25/04/25
In Science the children started their new topic on Plants. They planted their own cress seeds and started a diary to monitor their observations on how the plant changes throughout the half-term.
04/04/25
We have been looking at repeating patterns and made lots of patterns using our peg boards!
28/03/25
We have been reading the story ‘Oliver’s vegetables’ and have grown our own plants!
21/03/25
we have made our own potions and had lots of fun splashing and jumping about in them!
14/03/25
We made purim masks
07/03/24
We have enjoyed water play in the sunshine!
28/02/25
We used syringes to make water patterns on the floor!
14/02/25
We have been creating our own fairy tales using a range of resources
07/02/25
We made Gingerbread Man puppets and acted out the story!
31/01/25
We have been builders and building the different houses using, straw, blocks and sticks!
24/01/25
We have been using scales to work on weighing and capacity!
17/01/25
We acted out the Little Red Riding hood story!
10/01/25
We enjoyed playing with porridge and filling different sized containers for the 3 bears!
20/12/24
We read the book ‘The Aliens are Coming’ and drew some of our own alien pictures
13/12/24
We have been focusing on the book ‘Whatever Next’ and have made a lot of space inspired art work!
06/12/24
. We noticed that our water tray had turned icy so we tried dig the ice up!
29/11/24
We have been reading the book ‘Owl Babies’ and have done lots of work about owls!
22/11/24
We have been reading the book ‘Funny Bones’ and draw around our bodies to help us recognise bones in our body
11/10/24.
We have been forming letters and drawing our family members in the foam!
27/09/24
We have had so much playing in the water tray outside and filling containers with water!
20/09/24
We have been having so much fun making cakes in our mud kitchen!
13/09/24
Some of the children have been making patterns with the pegs and boards. We loved this colourful 3D rainbow!
