Pirates in Reception
The children of RH have been following the advice of Long John Silver to ‘chart our own course’ by continuing to have great fun with their learning in all areas of the curriculum.
For our maths work, we have been focusing on doubling and halving, using gold coins and mirrors to help write STEM sentences in the sand and trying to remember to form numbers correctly!
In literacy the children have been playing a game on the IWB where they had to decide which words were real or made up. They have also found out about famous pirates and drawn their own pirate, thinking carefully about descriptive vocabulary in their writing too.
YouTube was our friend as we followed careful instructions to make our own origami pirate boats and chose from a variety of different materials to create a swirling sea for our boats.
Staining paper with teabags to make treasure maps has been suitably messy and the children have enjoyed adding plenty of details, not forgetting that ‘X marks the spot’! Drawing a grid on top of a copy of their maps has encouraged learning about simple co-ordinates as children asked each other questions about the locations of different places. However, making a 3D grid in the playground was much more interesting!
Everyone enjoyed dressing up as a pirate and the children showed their imagination in many ways – making a big pirate ship with the crates in the playground, walking the plank and searching for treasure – as well as chopping fruit to make pirate grog and making jam sandwiches for our pirate picnic.
We are just so busy in Reception!
