Author: Mrs Wood

Our first full week in Reception has been a busy one. We have been making friends, learning new routines and exploring the classroom.

 

Phonics

This week we will begin learning letters and their sounds to read and write simple words.

During this phase children will learn their first 19 phonemes:

• Set 1: s a t p
• Set 2: i n m d
• Set 3: g o c k
• Set 4: ck (as in duck) e u r
• Set 5: h   b l   f     ff (as in puff)   ll (as in hill)     ss (as in hiss)

They will use these phonemes to read and spell simple “consonant-vowel-consonant” (CVC) words: sat, tap, dig, duck, rug, puff, hill, hiss

Early Reading

We have had a fantastic start to the year with all the children settling really well into their new school. There have been lots of smiles and laughter and very few tears!

Thank you for helping with this and preparing your child for this exciting time.

Workshops

Thank you to everyone who has attended our recent Zoom sessions to help you support your child at home. Watch the phonics session and the Early Years introduction. (And apologies for the distracting cursor in the latter – maybe that’s a nervous habit of Mr Roundtree!

The next workshop will be on Tuesday 28 September at 6pm. This reading workshop will explain how we teach reading in Reception and how you can help at home.

PE

PE will begin the week beginning 20 September. Your child should come to school in their PE kit on Wednesday and Friday.

Isolation learning

This will be emailed to you each week and is only for those children who are having to isolate because of COVID.

A few other things

Please make sure your child brings a water bottle and bookbag to school every day. You may want to send a change of clothes for your child which can be left at school.

If you have any questions or concerns please let us know. We are also keen to hear of any ‘wow’ moments, achievements and interests your child has.

moortownreception@spherefederation.org

 

 

Welcome to Reception Class.

We hope you and your child are as excited as we are about this new chapter in your child’s life. We hope you have been provided with all the information you need, but please ask if you are not sure about anything.

The First Week

After your child’s transition days, school will begin at 8.50 and finish at 3.15.

Please wait by the gate to our outdoor area and one of us will come to greet you.

At the end of the day, please wait at the gate of the Reception outdoor area. In order to ensure your child’s safety we only let the children out as we see the parent /carer who is collecting them at the end of the day.  As we are still getting to know you, this may take a little time at the beginning of the term so please bear with us.

If your child is being collected by somebody else please tell us or phone the office. We will ask whoever is collecting your child for the password you chose.

Dates for your diary

There will be a series of Zoom workshops to help you support your child at home:

EYFS Overview-Wednesday 15 September

Early Reading Workshop –Tuesday 28 September

Maths mastery workshop -Tuesday 9 November

Details for joining these will be sent nearer the time.

What to bring

• Book bag- please bring this every day
• Water bottle –only water is allowed
• Packed lunch if needed

The Reception Team

Teacher – Mrs Burke

Teaching Assistants-

Mrs Bharath

Miss Gaunt

If you have any questions or worries please do not hesitate to ask.

Good morning!

Our last day of learning at home.

Thank you for joining the zoom sessions everyday. You are all superstars!

Here are today’s home learning activities.

Phonics

Write the ‘er’ words.

 

Maths

Making 10

Can you complete the number sentences.

Extra activities

Here is today’s story read by Miss Gaunt.

We are all looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Don’t forget it’s non-uniform day!

Good morning!

I hope you are enjoying the hot weather and managing to keep cool!

Here are todays learning activities.

Phonics

1. Write the ‘air’ words.
2. 

Maths

Play this game outside.

Ask a helper to hide 10 objects.

Make a giant 10 frame on the ground. You could use sticks or chalk.

Go on a hunt to find the objects and put them in your 10 frame.

How many have you found so far? How many more do you need to find?

Today’s story.

Have a go at a science experiment with Professor Myers.

Reading

There are free e-reading books at  www.oxfordowl.co.uk .

You will need to register as a parent/carer to access these.

Don’t forget to send me any pictures/writing for Mr McGriffiths and I will send them on.

Hello, everyone!

Thank you for sending photos of your learning last week.

Here are today’s activities.

Phonics

Can you match the words and pictures?

                                                                                                                        

                                 

                                     

Maths

Gather together some bean bags and two buckets.

If you don’t have any bean bags you could use rolled up pairs of socks.

throw the bean bags towards the buckets

 

How many bean bags can you see?

How many beanbags must be hidden inside the two buckets?

How many could be inside each?

 

Handwriting

Practise your long ladder letters.

Storytime

Here is today’s story.

Good morning, everyone.

I hope you had a great weekend!

Here are today’s activities.

Phonics

Write the ‘ow’ words.

Maths

Estimate the number of sweets in the jars and then count them to check.

 

Here is today’s story.

Don’t forget to draw a picture and write a sentence for Mr McGriffiths.

Tell him something interesting about yourself.

 

Good morning!

I hope you are enjoying the sunshine and your home learning.

Today would have been our ‘Skip into Summer’ challenge. If you have a skipping rope at home why don’t you complete the challenge at home.

Here is the link to the video. You will find lots of tips and ideas for skipping here.

Here are today’s home learning activities.

Phonics

Write the ‘oi’ words.

Handwriting

Practise writing some curly caterpillar letters.

Maths

1. Grab a handful of objects. How many do you have? Ask someone else to grab a handful too.

If your friend has more than you, how many could they have?

If your friend has fewer than you, how many could they have?

Use a number track to talk about which numbers are smaller and which are greater.

2. Gather together some of your favourite toys. Make a tent or use a box to hide them in.

Create your own number stories by adding and removing toys.

Meet  your new teacher.

Here is today’s story.

We are so sad we are not in school again, but we are looking forward to seeing you all on Zoom and back at school next week.

Here are some activities linked with today’s learning.

Phonics

Can you write the ‘ur’ words?

 

Seaside missing sounds

Can you complete these words?

Maths

Sing 10 in a bed.

Sing a rhyme that counts backwards, such as 10 in a bed or 10 green bottles.

Use ten toys to act out the rhyme ’10 in a bed’.

Make some number cards and order them from 10 counting backwards to 1.

Listen to today’s story.

We have reached our last day of home learning! We are really looking forward to going back to school and seeing everyone tomorrow.

Here are today’s activities.

Phonics

Can you write the ar words?

Practise tricky words with this song.

Maths

Can you write the teen numbers represented by these?

Play the track game with at home.

Play a track game at home. You could make a game or play a board game you have.

 

Here is today’s story-one of our favourites!