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Reception

2017-2018

Welcome to Reception!

Mrs Nicholson & Miss Renzulli

'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.'

J. R. R. Tolkien

Keep looking at our website page for updates on what your child has been doing in Reception and information that you might find helpful to support your child in their learning.

Summer 2 almost over!

Where has this term gone to! The children have been very busy learning all about the many wonderful and different animals in God's world.

We have learnt about animals as pets, wild animals and farm animals. We are finishing our topic off with creatures that live under the sea.

My dog Tess came into school this morning. She was a very good dog and the children enjoyed meeting her. We took Tess for a walk around the playground! I think she really enjoyed meeting Reception class!

Our trip to 'Imagine That!'. It was a brilliant day. The children had so much fun and were very well behaved. They especially enjoyed making slime!

With all of this hot weather we just had to make ice-lollies. We used strawberries, natural yoghurt, sugar and vanilla essence. They were delicious and helped to cool us all down.

Just look at all these amazing moments. Our WOW tree looks wonderful! Thank you.

To celebrate the world cup we made football pitch biscuits. Yummy! Good luck to England tommorow night, against Croatia.

Look at our bean plants now! With all this hot sunny weather, they have grown so much. Do you think our bean plant will make it to the Giant's castle?

It's Summer time!

Our topic this half term is 'Plants and Flowers'. The children have already been busy planting beans and are now waiting excitedly for them to grow!

Personal, Social and Emotional

The children will learn how to care for the natural environment. They will be encouraged to take responsibility for their own actions and helped to make the right choices.

Communication and Language

The children will be listening to and responding to stories and songs. We will be encouraging the children to speak with confidence, sharing their thoughts and ideas. With the help of 'Lola' the leopard, the children will also develop an understanding of what makes a good listener.

Literacy

Some of the stories we will be sharing are 'Jasper's Beanstalk', 'Jack and the Beanstalk', 'Titch' and 'Oliver's Vegetables'. The children will be encouraged to try and answer questions about the main characters, events and settings and to link the stories to their own experiences. They will have the opportunity to retell stories through role-play and drama. They will also look at a selection of non-fiction books about plants and flowers and the season spring.

Maths

The children will be counting forwards and backwards with numbers from 1 to 20. They will be saying, reading, ordering and writing numbers and even counting to 100! In practical activities and discussion, they will continue to work on addition and subtraction and begin to solve problems including doubling, halving and sharing.

In shape, space and measures the children will use mathematical names for 'solid' 3D shapes and will begin to describe their properties. They will compare height and length using language such as, long, short, tall.

Understanding the world

The children will look at different plants and flowers and describe what they see, how they feel and smell. They will find out what makes a plant grow. The children will plant seeds and learn about caring for our classroom plants and flowers.

In Religion

We are thinking about the events after Easter Sunday and leading up to Pentecost.

How you can help at home

Here are some suggestions of the things you could do at home.

Share lots of books, stories and information books. Ask questions e.g. Who are the characters in the story? What happened at the end of the story?

Go for a walk and notice the plants and flowers. Talk about what you see.

Visit a garden centre or local park.

Plant seeds and see how they grow.

Draw or paint pictures of flowers and plants.

Sing number songs and count out loud to 100!

Have fun!

Any questions then please don't hesitate to ask.

We celebrated the wedding of Harry and Meghan. We had lunch outside with extra special biscuits made by our lovely dinner ladies. In class we made a wedding cake and Juliette said a prayer 'Please let Harry and Meghan have a lovely wedding'.

Fun baking cupcakes!

After reading the story of Jasper's Beanstalk, we planted our own beans. Now we are waiting for them to grow!

Making Fruit smoothie. We put in bananas, strawberries and blueberries. It was delicious!

Welcome to Spring!

We have been reading the story the Very Hungry Caterpillar, can you find any caterpillars when you are outside?

What other Spring changes can you see?

This Weeks Talking Challenge

As our topic is food please talk to your child about different foods. You might want to discuss your favourite foods, the food eaten by various animals or look at recipe books and do some baking, discussing at you are doing throughout baking.

Enjoy yourselves!

This term our topic is Food. We have started by looking at the story The Gingerbread Man.

The children have been busy making gingerbread men at school!

Take a look at out baking!

This week we have made fox sandwiches because we have been thinking about the Sly fox in ‘The Gingerbread Man’.

Take a look at our baking here!

Sly Fox Sandwiches

Gingerbread Men

EYFS Nativity

We are looking forward to you attending the EYFS nativity. We have been practicing very hard and hope you enjoy it.

The dates are:

Thursday 14th December at 1.30pm

Friday 15th December at 09.30am

If you are yet to get your tickets please hurry before you miss out!

We will update the website with photos on Friday!

Thank you already to those who have been practicing lines with their children.

Christmas Craft Morning

Thank you to all parents and family members who attended the Christmas craft morning. The children were delighted to be participate in the activities with you and created some wonderful crafts.

The morning was very busy with lots of parents and family. We hope you enjoyed yourselves!

October the month of the Rosary

As October is the month of the Rosary, and after being inspired by the year 1 class, Reception have also made their own Rosary bracelets. The children can wear their bracelets to school during the month of October. Look at us having fun making the bracelets!

October month of the Rosary

What a busy half term in Reception class!

In this first half term the children have settled into class really well, it is so nice to see them all come to school with smiles on their faces! We have had a busy half term with lots of different activities. The children have especially enjoyed baking activities and PE with Mr Cowling! Have a look at some of our class pictures and see what we have been up too!

Autumn 1

This weeks talking challenge:

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Challenge:

Ask your child about harvest and discuss with them what harvest is. Talk about the harvset assembly at school and how the children are coming in non uniform to raise money for two very important charities. The children have been learning a song for the harvest assembly - can they sing this to you and practice this?

Remember to encourage talk in full sentences. You might need to prompt your child with ideas to help them to think about what you are discussing.

What to expect in Reception Class

Reading Books - Your child will bring home a reading book in reception. Please try to read with your child every night. They will keep their reading books for approximately 1 week so be prepared to read the same book several times. The children read at school at least once a week so please keep your child's reading book and reading record in their book bag.

High Frequency / Tricky Words - Your child will bring home a list of words that they need to learn to recognise. These are the words that appear lots in the Oxford Tree Reading books or words that cannot be spelt phonetically. Please practice memorising these words with your child.

Library - The children go to the infant library every Thursday with Mrs Potts, they independently choose a book to borrow, these are for enjoyment that you can read to your child at home or that they may want to look at independently. Please put the library books in your child's book bag every Thursday so your child can change it. Please note - You will incur a fee if you fail to return books or return them damaged.

PE - PE is done with Mr Cowling on a Friday morning and during the week with Mrs Broxson. All children need a PE kit - black pants/shorts, black pumps, white tee shirt at school. The children keep these on their pegs and they will bring them home in the holidays to be washed.

This Week's Talking Challenge

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Welcome to your new school year. We hope you start to enjoy coming to school to learn about new and exciting things.

Each week there will be a talking challenge for your to talk to your child about at home.

Challenge:

Ask your child about what they have been doing at school, have they enjoyed playing with any particular toys and have they learnt any of their friends names?

Remember to encourage talk in full sentences. You might need to prompt your child with ideas to help them to think about what they have been doing, e.g. Did you play outside? What did you make in the sand pit, did anyone help you etc.

Playclub

Phonics!

The children learn phonics to learn to read and write. Each week we learn three new sounds. The new sounds we have been learning this week are - 'm' 'a' 's'

Please practice with your child, finding the initial sounds in words, especially with the new sounds they have been learning!

Please use this link to help you practice sound pronunciation correctly at home with your child:

http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/sound-pronunciation-guide/

Here is a picture to show you the order in which we will be learning single sounds.