Class Assembly
Don’t forget the Reception Class assembly on Thursday at 2.45.
Storytime!
Would you like to read to a small group of children or the class?
Do you have a favourite story from your childhood you would like to share?
We are learning traditional stories in our Literacy sessions this term and would like to provide the children with a wide range of stories read by a variety of people. If you would like to read to the children at story time please let us know.
We would particularly like to hear stories from a variety of cultures, not necessarily from a book.
Games to play at home
Memory
Memory, also known as concentration, is a fantastic game that can be played by even the youngest children, making it a very enjoyable way to learn the phonemic code. Because children generally excel at memory-based games, it also allows them to compete easily with older players.
The player to the dealer’s left starts. On each turn, a player must turn over two cards and pronounce each phoneme. If they match and are a pair the player may keep them if he or she can pronounce the phoneme correctly. If playing with the advanced code phoneme cards, then a word containing that phoneme has to be said in order to keep the pair. Because that player was successful, he/she also gets to take another turn. If, however, the two cards that he/she turns over do not match, then the player must turn them face down again and the next player takes his/her turn. The game is over when all of the pairs have been found. The person with the most pairs is the winner.
Word Card Winners
Place all the cards face down and take it in turns to pick one. If your child says the word correctly they keep it. Read a few words wrongly and encourage your child to spot the mistake. The person with the most cards is the winner.
Have fun!
Born In A Barn
Who was born in the barn one cold and wintry evening? If you come and see our Christmas performance on Tuesday 14 or Wednesday 15 December then you’ll find out. It’s not too late to get your tickets! Come and listen to the singing donkey, various sheep and cows, a wise owl and a very noisy cockerel. Looking forward to seeing you.
Join in our celebrations!
Key Stage One and Foundation Stage Christmas Performance
“BORN IN A BARN”
Snow!
Curriculum Morning – Tuesday 30 November
There will be a short meeting at 9 o’clock on Tuesday morning for those parents who were unable to attend the evening meeting. The meeting will give you the chance to find out how we teach reading and writing in Reception and give you ideas for helping your child at home. We hope you will be able to attend.
Helping each other to learn in Reception
This week the children have been helping each other learn. Will we be out of a job soon?
- A phonics lesson
Helping your child at home
Thank you to everyone who came to the curriculum meeting yesterday. If you could not make it please let us know as we will be arranging a morning session very soon for those parents who wish to attend.
For information on how we teach maths using Numicon there is a useful parent’s page on their website.
For more information on the correct pronunciation of phonemes this website is very useful.
Supporting your child’s learning
Don’t forget the Curriculum Evening this Wednesday at 6.30pm!
For ideas for helping your child at home, download some useful leaflets from Early Education entitled ‘Maths is everywhere’ and ‘The road to reading’.
The children takeover!
On Friday, the children in Reception took over ‘Show and Tell’ and did such a fantastic job that we may let them do it every week!
