In Maths the children have continued to engage with activities that draw attention to the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how many’ objects there are. The children have also revisited the concept of cardinality – that the last number in the count tells us how many things there are altogether. We have also been ordering numbers to 5 and have discovered that each number has a value of 1 more than the previous number. We have been using cubes and Numberblocks to help us.
In Phonics we have started to learn some more of the phase 3 digraph sounds, including ar, ur, oo and or. The children have enjoyed thinking of lots of different words that include these new sounds. We have also continued to practise segmenting and blending for reading and writing. The new ‘harder to read and spell words’ this week were ‘they’, ‘are’ and ‘all’. We have practised making up our own sentences that include these words.
Our book focus this week in topic time has been ‘Say hello to the dinosaurs’. We have spent time learning about the different types of dinosaurs, their names and features. We have compared different dinosaurs and discussed why some dinosaurs had specific features. Then the children chose their favourite dinosaur to draw and either label or write a sentence about.
This week in Reception we have started ‘Let’s Read’. This is a teacher-led activity that involves small groups sharing the same book. During this session we focus on developing reading skills, including how to use a book, segmenting and blending of words and comprehension skills.
Key Points
- We would really love some more junk modelling – especially toilet rolls please!
- Both Lime and Apple class are getting quite low on some creative resources and any donations would be greatly appreciated e.g. masking tape, sellotape, envelopes, pipe cleaners, stickers, buttons, foam shapes, pom poms, googly eyes, food colouring, paper plates.
- In Literacy, one of our main focuses is letter formation. We are practising this daily in class and we would really appreciate it if you could support your child by forming the letters correctly. Here is a video link to practise at home – please note, the only differences are that we do y as ‘under and up the hull and down to the anchor’ and we flick our i, l, t: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rt1syuknWE
