In Reception this week, we are beginning a topic all about dinosaurs. We will be looking at both fiction and non-fiction texts, and the children will help to write a class dinosaur fact file. We will be learning about dinosaurs being alive a very long time ago and will look at our class timeline to see where dinosaurs belong. We will also earn about the terms herbivore, omnivore and carnivore and what these mean. The children will have the opportunity to try a range of different crafts and activities linked to dinosaurs such as collaging, painting, developing fine motor skills and playing games.
At home, make sure you encourage your child to practice the sounds they have learnt each week. This will help your child become confident with their letter sounds, and make blending words easier. This week the children will be introduced to four more letter sounds i,n,p and g. They will also start to put the sounds taught so far together to blend and read simple words such as mat, sad, sit etc.
In Math’s this week we are looking at comparisons. In this small step, children will build on their previous skills of sorting. They will learn that sets can be compared and ordered. Children will use the language ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ when comparing sets of objects. The focus of this small step is on comparing sets of objects specifically. It is easier for children to make comparisons when the difference between the sets is greater. You could do this at home by asking your child to compare sets of 5 and 2 objects rather than sets of 5 and 6 objects.