In topic time this week we have continued our focus on Antarctica and penguins. We read the story ‘Blue Penguin’ and focused on how everyone is different and why this makes us special. We were very lucky to have letters delivered to the school from the Blue Penguin. We practised our phonics skills to write our own letters and questions back to the penguin!
In Maths we have recapped measuring using non-standard units (cubes). We have spent time measuring how many cubes long or short different objects are in the classroom. We then put some of these objects in order by their size. In pairs we then investigated how larger objects were, we were amazed how many cubes we had to use for certain objects.
In Phonics we have continued to recap all our phase 2 and 3 sounds. We have mainly focused on developing the children’s segmenting and blending skills for writing. We have been encouraging the children to read back their writing to check if they have all the sounds they can hear and if all letters are formed correctly.
We are so proud of all the children within Reception for their amazing Nativity performance today. They have worked so hard to remember their lines but also all the songs and their actions. Didn’t they all look amazing in their costumes? Well done Reception 🙂
Key Points
- If your child is choosing to write at home, please could you encourage them to form all their letters correctly. The rhymes in your yellow diary show you how each letter should be formed. It is important to remind children that all letters apart from ‘e’ and ‘d’ start from the top. Also please discourage the use of capital letters unless it is the start of a sentence or a name.
- After the holidays we will be starting our new topic all about Dinosaurs. If you have anything at home that could be used within school to help support the teaching of this topic it would be much appreciated e.g. dinosaur books, dinosaur eggs and fossils, dinosaur jigsaws or games