Beechwood Primary School

Foundation Stage Blog – 3 February 2017

In Foundation Stage this week we have focused on reading through activities such as guided reading, oral retelling of a story and acting out the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ using a story sack. The children demonstrated their understanding of the Chinese New Year story by completing an independent activity involving drawing illustrations and some children started to write simple words and sentences.

They developed their understanding of the importance of keeping their hands clean, through ‘getting their hands dirty’ and then washing their hands, alongside the use of songs. This was applied during their independent learning where they took great care to make sure their hands were squeaky clean and germ free.

This week’s topic has been Chinese New Year and the children have enjoyed learning about the Chinese traditions during class discussions and choreographed their own dragon dance in PE. The addition of a Chinese takeaway role play area has been of great excitement and the children have dressed up in traditional Chinese outfits when taking peoples orders. They have experimented with using chopsticks to pick up noodles and had great fun making fortune tellers, Chinese lanterns and rooster pictures. Following this the children completed sequencing and ordering numbers activities using a Chinese dragon game in ICT.