Spring 1: Week1
The children have come back ready to learn and very happy to see their friends.
They were very excited to see the snow in the playground and it has fit in well with our learning this week about Antarctica. Our word of the week was iceberg and the children are now confident talking about what one is. We were thinking of other words with ice and came up with the word icicle. We went on a hunt around the school grounds to find icicles – the children were very excited when we found some.
Our poem of the week suits the weather we have had. It is called Put on your Mittens. The children have enjoyed sharing the poem and showing me their mittens.
On Thursday, we had a zoom with Farmer Verity. We Zoom Farmer Verity every few months to see changes around the farm and ask her questions.
The children came up with some great questions.
‘Are the animals cold?’
‘Do the animals hibernate?’
‘Do any of the animals like playing in the cold?’
We have been making sure that we are forming our letters correctly by practising our letter formation.
Help at home: by practising too.
We have moved onto our phase3 phonics and have been learning lots of new sounds.
Help at home: by practising the new sounds sent home on Friday.
Our maths next week is all about numeral recognition.
Help at home: by pointing out numerals in the environment.
Reminder: stay and learn
Stay and learn will take place next week.
Phonics Phase 3 – 14.01.25 9-9:30am
It would be great to see you all there. It is a fantastic opportunity for you to learn how we deliver our lessons and the content that is covered.
Autumn 2: Week 7
I think I speak for everyone when I say how proud we are of our wonderful reception class for their fabulous singing during the nativity performance. They did such a fantastic.
Alongside our performance this week, we have made Christmas hats, completed jiqsaws, built models and danced at our Christmas party.
Thank you for all the wonderful gifts you have given.
Enjoy your Christmas break and we look forward to seeing you all back in the new year.
Reception Team
Autumn 2: Week6
This week, we have been completing challenges, writing postcards to Santa and practising our nativity.
The children enjoyed completing the different challenges in the classroom and sharing them with others. They have been developing their fine motor skills by cutting shapes; developing their writing skills by writing letters to Santa; sequencing stories in the reading area and making pictures with our 2d shapes.
On Thursday, the children enjoyed their Christmas dinner.
Help at home: by identifying 2d shapes in the local environment.
Remember: our nativity is on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
This week and next are review weeks for phonics so there will be no phonic sheet sent home.
I am however sending home a wow sheet. This is for you to complete at home if there is anything wow that happens and you would like to share. I will send one home every half term. If you would like any in addition to this please let me know.
We are making a book of our families. Please can you email or send in a picture of your family.
Autumn 2: Week5
During this week, we have been practising our Christmas songs for the nativity. You may have even heard the children singing them at home. They are enjoying learning the songs and creating actions for them.
Our poem of the week this week is Wise Old Owl. Please encourage your child to share this with you and discuss the key vocabulary.
We are encouraging the children to begin sentence writing during our writing sessions and in the areas. We ask them to think of a sentence, count it, try and write it and then check it. We are not expecting these to be accurate but we are trying to develop a love of writing and modelling the thought process.
Math
We have been working on numeral recognition this week. The children have been finding numbers and then selecting the correct amount of objects to match the number. Alongside this, we’re supporting the children with their accuracy with counting and recognising that the number they finish on is the amount they have – the stopping number.
Help at home: by pointing out numbers in the environment
We have been having lots of fun both inside and outside this week. The children have been working as a team to erect different buildings.
Reminder: learning drop in
An opportunity to “drop into” school and share your child’s learning journal with them.
Learning Journey Drop in 1 – 03.12.24 and 05.12.24 Times – 8.45 am-9.15am and 3.15pm-3.45pm
Autumn 2: Week5
Our book of the week this week is How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers. The children have enjoyed writing about the different ways they could catch a star. We have been looking at different constellations and recreating them on the playground.
We have been discussing our word of the week-reflection. The children used this word when describing what they needed to do during one of our classroom challenges.
Help at home: by practising the phonemes and letter formation that is on the Friday home learning sheet.
Math
We have been continuing our work on part wholes. The children have been partitioning numbers and using the sentence stems ….. is a part…… is a part …. is a whole.
RE
We enjoyed discussing different places of worship on Monday and then the children recreated some of these using the classroom equipment.
Remember: to bring your child’s reading record book and library book on a Thursday.
Reminder: learning drop in
This is an opportunity to “drop into” school and share your child’s learning journal with them. This will involve looking through your child’s learning journey book.
Learning Journey Drop in 1 – 03.12.24 and 05.12.24 Times – 8.45 am-9.15am and 3.15pm-3.45pm
Autumn2: Week3
Maths
Our focus this week has been looking at parts and the whole of objects. We have been using a variety of objects to do this. For example, wheels are parts of a car that helps to make the whole. Our arms and legs are parts of our body that makes up us (the whole).
We have also been completing jigsaws this week and discussing how the pieces are the parts and the completed jigsaw is the whole.
Help at home: by looking at objects and discussing the parts and the whole.
This foundation then helps the children when partitioning numbers. For example, 5 is the whole and it is made up of parts 1 and 4, 2 and 3, 5 and 0.
Literacy led learning
This week we have been reading the book Night Monkey Day Monkey by Julia Donaldson. We have discussed that she has written lots of other books that we have read and that they often have rhyming words in them.
In the book, the monkeys discuss their shadows. This inspired the children to make different shadows and draw around them.
The book has a strong link with our word of the week- nocturnal. We have been discussing what that word means and what we normally do at different times of the day. For example, having breakfast in the morning and going to bed at nighttime.
The children have enjoyed making animal shelters for nocturnal animals in our creative area.
They also enjoyed making their own shelter using the parachute.
Help at home: by practicing reading the tricky words we have learnt so far:
is, I, the, as, and, has, his, her, go, no
Remember: to send the children to school with hats and gloves, as it is getting colder.
Nursery Rhyme Week
During nursery rhyme week, the children enjoyed reciting and acting out different nursery rhymes.
Linked to World Nursery Rhyme Week, we’ve been reading this classic book by Jane and Allan Ahlberg. The children loved listening carefully for the rhyming words and spotting familiar characters on each page.
