Don’t forget our maths workshop tomorrow at 2.15 and 6.00. Find out how we teach maths in Reception and how you can support your child at home.
This will be followed by our maths ‘Stay and Play’ on Wednesday. You will be able to see how the children learn maths through play and ‘hands on’ experiences in the areas of provision.
Thank you for all the ‘home learning moments’ you have been sending.
It’s wonderful to see how keen the children are to continue their reading and writing at home.
Please keep sending those ‘wow’ moments.
Phonics
Thank you for attending the phonics mornings last week. We hope you found them useful.
We are continuing with phase 2 of our phonics programme, ‘Letters and Sounds’ and are learning ck, e, u and r. Children will be taught that two letters making one sound such as ck is called a digraph. Other digraphs include qu, th and sh.
In this phase children will be taught the phonemes (sounds) for a number of letters (graphemes), which phoneme is represented by which grapheme and that a phoneme can be represented by more than one letter, for example, /ll/ as in b-e-ll. We use Jolly Phonics actions to help children remember these phonemes. Each week the children will bring a set of letters home to learn. Please practise these every day and keep them in their book bag for us to add to.
Your child will be taught how to pronounce the phonemes correctly to make blending easier.
Sounds should be sustained where possible (e.g. sss, fff, mmm) and, where this is not possible, ‘uh’ sounds after consonants should be reduced as far as possible (e.g. try to avoid saying ‘buh’, ‘cuh’).
We will begin learning ‘tricky words’ next week which are words which are not phonetic. Please help your child to read these by recognition. The first tricky words are the and to which we will be sending home for the children to learn.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.
This week the children have been rolling conkers and pumpkins. They held a competition to see whose conker rolled the furthest.
This week we have been exploring shape. The children have been playing with shapes and finding different shapes in the classroom and around school.
Why not go on a shape hunt at home and see how many shapes your child can identify?
We have been learning to recognise, copy and create a simple pattern using cubes, natural materials and shapes.
Teaching children to recognise pattern has a positive effect on their later understanding of number. Research has found that young children’s ability to spot mathematical patterns can predict later mathematical achievement more than other abilities such as counting.
Why not encourage your child to spot patterns around the home and when out and about.
The children are settling well and enjoying their learning. Lots of friendships have been formed and they’ve played creatively and collaboratively to create zoos, shops and the Burj Khalif tower!
All the children have now started their learning journey at Moortown with confidence and very few tears!
They have settled well and had fun exploring the areas of the classroom and making friends.
This week we will begin our ‘Relax and Read’ session on Wednesday morning and we have our first workshop on Thursday.
This workshop will explain how the children learn in Reception and how you can support their learning at home.
We hope you will attend the sessions at either 2pm or 6pm.
The children really enjoyed their first yoga session.
