This week in Reception we have continued to have a big focus on learning the school rules and routines, including making good learning choices in the indoor and outdoor environments.
In topic this week we have been thinking about our families and discussing how all families are different. All of the Reception team have shown the children their own families and the children seemed to be surprised that their teachers had families and pets at home. The children then shared and talked about their own family photos in front of the class. We then thought about how we could ask each other relevant questions. Some children have have done some lovely drawings of their families which have been put on display within the classrooms.
In phonics we have recapped last weeks phonics sounds. We then introduced the sounds i, n, m and d. We have practised using the rhymes to write the letters in the air and then had a go on paper. We have also introduced ‘harder to read and spell words’, these are words that cannot be segmented and blended. These words are ‘a’, ‘I’, ‘the’, ‘no’. Please read every day with your child at home where they get the opportunity to practise the sounds and harder to read words we have been looking at in class. Please record each time you read in the yellow diaries with comments to explain how your child has read and understood their book.
This week we had our first PE lesson in the hall! We focused this week on being able to undress and dress ourselves independently. If you could practise this at home that would be much appreciated! In PE we then played a range of whole class games, allowing the children to get used to the space.
Both Reception classes joined Miss Dore this week for a music lesson. We had lots of fun singing familiar nursery rhymes and listening to some different instruments.
Key Points
- Next week we will introduce Reception to ‘Junk Modelling’. We would appreciate it if anyone could bring in some recycling for us to use e.g. egg boxes, toilet roll holders, different sized food boxes.
- Please send in a family photo with your child if you have not yet done this.
- PE is on Thursdays so please make sure your child has a kit on their peg every week.
