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Learning in Reception

There are seven areas of learning in the Foundation Stage. One of these is ‘Expressive arts and design’. Have a look at all the learning and development that took place in this area last week.

Phonics

This week we are blending and segmenting orally. We do this by ‘sound talking’.

The separate sounds (phonemes) are spoken aloud, in order, all through the word, and are then merged together into the whole word. This merging together is called blending and is a vital skill for reading.

Children will also learn to do this the other way around – cat = c-a-t. The whole word is spoken aloud and then broken up into its sounds (phonemes) in order, all through the word. This is called segmenting and is a vital skill for spelling.

This is all oral (spoken). Your child will not be expected to match the letter to the sound at this stage. The emphasis is on helping children to hear the separate sounds in words and to create spoken sounds.

How you can help at home

12 October 2012

The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 17 October.

I can talk to somebody about what transport was like when they were a child

Talk to adults at home about their experiences of transport when they were children. If possible, ask grandparents and older family members as well. The older the better!

Question prompts could be:

• How did you get to school?
• Did you go on holiday and how did you get there?
• How has transport changed?
• What was your first car?
• How have the roads changed?

12 October 2012

We are learning about ed endings this week. This week’s list is made up of words where you have to add ed to the end of the word when changing it to the past tense. Children often hear this ending as a t sound and not ed.

Assembly

It is our class assembly on Thursday 18 October. It starts at 2:40. The children are looking forward to sharing their learning.

See you there!

12 October 2012

This week’s spellings are words using ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. A useful way to remember which to use is ‘oi’ is usually in the middle of a word and ‘oy’ is usually at the end. These spellings will be tested on Friday 19 October.

12 October 2012

This week’s spellings are continuing the rule of changing the “y” to “i”.  They will be tested on Friday 19 October 2012.

There seem to be a lot of spellings on this list but the children have been learning about this rule all week and are familiar with these words.  Please encourage them to add any more words that they can think of.  The spelling test will test them on 8 of these words and we will be verbally discussing all of them.

12 October 2012

This week’s homework is “Practice Makes Perfect.”

We have been investigating different types of data for the last couple of weeks; this homework looks at a frequency chart and then asks about averages.

Ask your child about mode, median and mean averages.  In this homework they are asked to find the mode, this is the most common piece of data that appears in the chart.

They should be able to complete this homework independently;  if there are any problems then please come and see me.

This homework needs to be handed in by Wednesday 17 October 2012.

12 October 2012

The homework this week is Creative and is due on Wednesday 17 October.

I can show what I know about the circus.

As you know, our new topic is Roll Up, Roll Up! I would like you to show me anything you already know about the circus. You can be as creative as you like, but if you’re struggling why not try:

• produce a spider diagram of ideas
• draw pictures with labels
• write a sentence
• produce a poster
• cut and stick pictures from the internet or magazines

12 October 2012

This week’s spellings are all months of the year. You won’t be tested on all of them. However, you’ll have to learn them all as I’m not going to reveal which ones are going to be tested.