Welcome to Chestnut!
2025 - 2026
Mrs Robilliard/Miss Lowe - Class Teachers
Mrs Cook, Mrs S Spencer, Mrs Hooper, Mrs Maw - Teaching Assistants
Spring 1
Winter Wonderland
Here are some Kandinsky shape pictures we made as part of our Maths learning
Number Day kicked off with us coming to school in our number themed clothing. We loved looking at all the different numbers we could find on everyone's clothes. We then explored the book 'The Rabbit Problem' by Emily Gravett and were amazed at how many rabbits there were by the end of the book. We sang our months of the year song to help us remember the order of the months as we turned each exciting page.
During PE, we used the story as inspiration for our dance lesson. We started off as lonely sleeping rabbits in a field. Once we woke up, we found a partner and became two hopping rabbits. After another sleep, we jumped around and found another partner set to join up with to make four jumping rabbits. After joining up again to make a group of eight skipping rabbits, we all joined together to make the biggest group we could.
Take a look at some of our independent learning from this half term.
We have been enjoying our time learning in the outdoor areas, working as a team, using our imagination, designing and building, and developing our gross motor skills.
This half term we are focusing on team games in our PE lessons. Coach Owen has been teaching us how to travel in different directions, move with a ball, pass a ball with our feet and throw a ball to another person.
We have been learning about height and length in our maths lessons. Using our star words 'long, longer, longest, short, shorter, shortest, tall, taller, tallest' we compared our height, shoe size and the distance we could throw a bean bag.
Reception have loved engaging in learning based around our new theme of Winter Wonderland and have especially enjoyed learning about freezing and melting, and how water can change. Making and eating ice lollies was our favourite part. We were eager to see if the flavoured water we poured into moulds would freeze after putting them in the cold freezer. We checked them the next day and they had frozen. Everyone enjoyed eating their lolly but we had to eat them quickly before they melted in the warm classroom.
