Welcome to Reception's class page

Last week we were going wild in the classroom as we linked our learning to 'Where The Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak. We loved making links in our learning between the monsters in the book and that in last week's text 'The Gruffalo'. Did you know that they all have "terrible teeth and terrible claws?"

Along with using AI to create our own 'Wild Things' we also drew our own, naming them and creating habitats for them. We even made crowns just like 'King Max', explored floating in the water tray, designing and creating our own boats and practised our jumping, hoping and running as we went on a 'wild rumpus' through the forest and around the climbing castle.

There are several cases of Chicken Pox in class at present, so please be vigilant. If you are unsure of symptoms, then please seek advice from the NHS website or your local pharmacist.

This week we have moved our mythical creature topic onto unicorns with our story 'Sugarlump and the Unicorn' by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. We enjoyed talking and writing about what we would wish for before making our very own wishing wands! We have great fun decorating them with glitter and ribbons. We have also been busy making our own obstacle courses in the garden and arranging races, pretending we are on the racecourse. The children have even been on word hunts in the classroom to find, read and write all the words the cheeky unicorns have tried to steal. Some of our classmates found all 32 words!!

This afternoon we set up a 'show' in the classroom with children making tickets for the audience and then taking it in turns to delight us with dances, songs and spectacular gymnastics moves. It was just like being at the circus in the show. 

At forest school this week we explored the woods and Paddy's patch to find sticks big enough to be our very own race horses and we practised trotting and galloping around the track and the flowers. We had a great time, even the grown ups all joined in. 

Have a great weekend everyone,

Miss Conyard, Mrs Highsted, Miss Morley and Mrs Shew

Home learning due Tuesday 3rd February

This week we have learnt our final phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs. This means Reception children have now been taught all 58 sounds!!  For this week's home learning challenge i would love you to try and find some of our digraphs and trigraphs 'out in the wild'. How many of the list below can you find in books at home? Can you spot any street names, signs or shops while you are out and about this weekend? If so, why not snap a picture and send us a 'piccollage' of all your finds? 

If you want to challenge yourself further, could you write a list of words that contain our new digraphs and trigraphs from this term?

Feel free to send you pictures to admin@leverstockgreen.herts.sch.uk so we can share them on our wow walk in class. 

We have also given the children this week's phonics support sheet. We have learnt 4 new digraphs this week. Can they remember what they are? What about our new tricky words?

This terms digraphs and trigraphs are:

1. ai
2. ee
3. igh
4. oa
5. oo - long as is 'zoom to the moon'
6. oo - short 'hook a book'
7. ar
8. or
9. ur
10. ow
11. oi
12. ear
13. air
14. er

How many will you find?

Miss Conyard and the Reception Team

Phase 3 sounds taught in Reception

Here is a video from Little Wandle sharing how we pronounce our sounds. I hope you find this useful. 

There are lots of other useful and supportive videos on their YouTube channel if you need further support. 

Letters and Sounds for Home and School - YouTube

Spring 1

Week 3 and 4, 19.1.26 and 26.1.26

Forest School

Watch out for our 'Wild things'

A few reminders:

We have had several jumpers and cardigans go missing in class. Please can you ensure your child’s uniform is named. Can I also request you check if the uniform you have at home is yours? Some missing jumpers have the children’s names in. 30 jumpers all look the same to a 4 or 5-year-old.

The school day is: 8.45 am – 3.15 pm

Jewellery is not allowed. 1 pair of studs only.

Bags – book bags only. Please no large bags or backpacks. There is not the room in the cloakroom. 

Please put names on EVERYTHING!

Named water bottle – no squash or juice!!!!

Curriculum Map 

• Little Wandle Parent support link Please support your child to practise and reinforce the phonemes and graphemes we are learning in school. More information and support can be found on the Little Wandle website.

• Phase 2 sounds taught in Reception Autumn 1

• Phase 2 sounds taught in Reception Autumn 2

• Phonics Support Jargon buster. There are lots of technically words used in teaching phonics. As the children learn more we will share more with them. This website has great simple definitions to support you, to support the children.

• Phonics Play This website will allow your child to apply their phonics knowledge and share the phonics games they play in school at home.

• Phonics: Pronounciation of Phonemes This link allows you to listen to the correctly pronounced phonemes so you can practice with your child when reading at home.

• Alphablocks Play along with the Alphablocks and have fun with the letters of the alphabet.

• Top Marks Phonics This website has a variety of games your child may wish to play to support their phonological awareness.

• Maths Chase Maths Chase is a completely free home online learning tool where children can play times tables games, along with many other mathematics skill-based games! The site features many simple learning games which children can play at home. We hope kids will find it a fun and different way to improve their maths accuracy and speed.

• Oxford Owl Free resources available for dowload without registering

• Foundation: CBeebies Radio Listen to this week's CBeebies Radio.