Welcome to Reception's class page

This week has been shorter than normal due to the bank holiday, but still as busy as ever in class! Our story of the week has been 'Superworm', and the children have really enjoyed reading the story, joining in with the repeated language and filling in the rhyming words. We've also enjoyed drawing pictures of worms, designing superhero outfits for Superworm, digging for them in the garden, and discussing how camouflage can help animals stay well hidden. 

We have been challenging ourselves more and more in phonics, reading longer words and even learning about compound words. The children have been pushing themselves to write more in our sessions too. Not just a few words, but now making up sentences for those words. i.e. blanket, the blanket is soft, the blanket is red. As we move closer towards the deadline for early learning goals, I am proud of how much the children are challenging themselves. Please continue to encourage them to use their finger spaces and ensure they are using the correct letter formation. This is so important as we don't want bad habits to be ingrained in their writing style. 

Maths has been all about doubles and subitising. We have been remembering how 6, 7, 8, and 9 are all 5 and a bit more. The children have been super with their subitising. Keep it up. 

This afternoon we have also enjoyed learning a little bit more about David Attenborough and his life, as he celebrates his 100th birthday. The children created wonderful cards and animal pictures for him. 

Next week we move our animal learning onto animals, their life cycles and their habitats as we explore the story 'Monkey Puzzle'. 

Enjoy the weekend,

Miss Conyard, Mrs Highsted, Miss Morley and Mrs Shew

Home learning due Tuesday 12th May

Today the children have brought home their usual support phonics sheets so you can see our new trick words and longer words we have been working on in class. This week, for the children's home learning, I would like the children to practise their doubles with you at home. They could record them as number of sentences, i.e. 1+1=2 2+2=4 etc, or they could play quick fire games with you, i.e. you call out a number, and they see how fast they can double it. Can they double up to 10?

In class we love singing along to this double rap. 

Doubles Rap

Family learning on Writing 21.4.26

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

Summer 1

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Forest School

Unfortunately, we were unable to go to the woods for forest school today. Several of the children did not have coats or forest school waterproofs in school. With the storms today, we did not want to chance those children getting very wet when the rain came down. Instead, we spoke about fire safety as we build up to having a fire at forest school. The children discussed the rules around keeping safe and then created posters to remind them and their friends about how to stay safe around a fire. 

Week 4 4.5.26

Week 3 27.4.26

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.