Well done to Reception for completing their first half term at Alban City School!
In Phonics this week we have had a big focus on reviewing all the phase 2 sounds that we have learnt so far. We have practised the skills for segmenting and blending when reading and writing. We have also been focusing on ‘harder to read and spell words’. These words are now stuck into your child’s yellow reading record so you can practise reading and spell these words at home. There is also a new phase 3 sound mat with all of the sounds, pictures and rhymes we will be covering after half term.
In Maths this week we have recapped the skills we need to count accurately by either moving objects, putting them into a line and pointing as you count. We then thought about how numbers can be made of smaller numbers. We did this by starting with a set amount of objects and then splitting them into two groups in different ways.
In topic this week we have enjoyed learning lots of different nursery rhymes and what some of the vocabulary within these nursery rhymes mean. We have sung the rhymes and used actions to help us to remember the rhymes. We have looked at sequencing the rhymes in order and then during discovery time we have used puppets to recreate the rhymes.
In PE we became minibeasts and found different ways of changing our bodies to look and move like these animals. We then played a game of spiders and flies (stuck in the mud), and sun and rain (duck duck goose).
Key Points
- Please continue to hear your child read regularly over the half term so they are ready to learn our new phonics sounds when they return.
- Please bring back PE kits with names on when you return to school.
- If anyone has any spare knickers/pants, socks and trousers that they no longer need Reception would greatly appreciate them. Also if you have borrowed any clothes from school please could you return them as we are very short.
- After half term we are looking at the traditional tales ‘The Gingerbread Man’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and ‘The Three Little Pigs’, if you have any resources to help us learn about these topics please let us know e.g. straw, sticks, yoghurt pots, beans for the children to plant, the inside of toilet rolls and crafts.
Have a great week, we look forward to seeing the children back on Tuesday 5th November.
