Red Nose Day!
Storytelling!
Reception had a fantastic time being very creative on our storytelling day
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We are having a storytelling workshop tomorrow
Please come and hear the children’s stories at 2.30.
Designers of the future!
Reception children have been busy making fantastic models this week.
Please come and listen to our stories on Thursday at 2.30.
We are having a storytelling workshop on Thursday and telling our own stories. We’ll share these with parents at 2.30pm in the classroom.
Maths
Try this activity at home to help your child with understanding addition and partitioning:
Spot the difference
Draw a row of six coloured spots.
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- In turn, one player closes his/her eyes.
- The other player hides some of the spots with a sheet of paper.
- The first player says how many spots are hidden.
- Try with other numbers of spots.
- Show your child how to count on.
Reading Activities
Here are some ideas when reading with your child:
1. Introduce the book.
2. Look at the front cover illustration and ask your child to predict what the book is about.
3. Ask questions eg “What can we see on the front cover?”
4. Look through the book at the illustrations.
5. Read the blurb – the description on the back of most books.
6. Ask questions about the text as you read.
7. Explain unfamiliar vocabulary and new words.
8. Ask your child to find words in the text and discuss them.
Other questions and prompts you might use are:
- Show me where you start reading.
- Show me how you point to the words as you read.
- Point to a capital letter.
- Point to a full stop.
- Can you find a word that starts with___?
- Can you see any speech bubbles / exclamation marks?
- Can you find a long word on the page and count the syllables?
Ideas for helping your child with maths
This week we are learning to recognise and write the numerals 0-9. Here are some ideas for helping your child at home.
Choose a number for the week eg 2
Encourage your child to look for this number all the time, at home, in the street and while out shopping.
Choose a different number each week and encourage your child to write the numeral.
Try this website for games to help your child to recognise numerals.
How to help with phonics at home
We are beginning to learn vowel digraphs such as ai, ee, igh, oa, and oo. Encourage your child to say the letter names as this is less confusing at this stage.
Here are some examples of words they will be reading. Their confidence from the daily experience of practising and applying their phonic knowledge to reading and writing is really paying off!
tail, week, right, soap, food, park, burn, cord, town, soil.
Tricky words
The number of tricky words is expanding. These are so important for reading and spelling: he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, her, they, all.
Continue to play with magnetic letters, using some of the two grapheme (letter) combinations:
r-ai-n = rain blending for reading rain = r-ai-n – segmenting for spelling
b-oa-t = boat blending for reading boat = b-oa-t – segmenting for spelling
h-ur-t = hurt blending for reading hurt = h-ur-t – segmenting for spelling
PLEASE continue reading to your child even when they are reading independently. This is very important – your child needs to practise their reading skills every day, and needs the support of an interested adult.
Patterns
Reception children have been following and making their own repeating patterns in Maths.
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