What’s happening in Reception – Week 1

Reception have started the half term with a trip around the globe to explore the country of Nigeria, in Africa. As part of our country comparison, the children will be exploring what life is like in Nigeria and other African nations through key texts, role play and focused activities that will allow them to gauge an understanding of African culture. They will then be using their knowledge about countries in Africa to make comparisons to their own personal experiences of life in England.

This week, have been reading a brand new key text (Anna Hibiscus Splash!), we have used non-fiction books to explore what life is like in different countries across Africa and we have also continued to use our key artist (Yinka Shonibare) to create our very own patterns on printing tiles, that we are now going to decorate and turn into one big printing blanket!

Take a look at what we’ve been up to…