Racing into the New Year: Tracks, Transport & Tiny Creatures!

Reception class • January 10, 2025

Racing into the New Year: Tracks, Transport & Tiny Creatures!

Reception class • January 10, 2025

Reception have had a great start to the New Year. We have started the new topic of Transport and looked at different forms of transport comparing long ago to more recent times and spotting what had changed and what remained the same.

With our new topic in mind, we have started our new Mountain Challenges this week. We have been tasked with building a track so that our toy cars can have a race and have been testing our fine motor skills cutting out 2D shapes to complete a picture of a bus.


As the weather hasn’t been too bad, we have been able to use our outdoor area every day so far. We have been building, digging and using the water tray, we have also been adding to our bug hotel. We found a couple of worms whilst we were digging so we were able to use our magnifying glasses to take a closer look at them as they wiggled into their new home.


In music we have been listening to bird song and copying their sounds and movements. We also got to join in with the cuckoo song.


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