Category: Reception Blog

Hello All. We are very sad that we are not in school to do our learning, but the safest place for you all at the moment is at home. All home learning will be uploaded to Microsoft TEAMs each day. You were given your child’s email address and log in earlier in the year. To log in visit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/log-in You can access TEAMs through a computer, tablet or phone. If you have misplaced the login details then please email your child’s class teacher and they will get back to you with your log in details.

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We would love to hear from you. Please feel free to email pictures of your work to us once or twice a week. Don’t feel you have to email everything but we would love to see what you have been getting up to. Contact us if you have any problems and remember just do the best that you can. We would suggest prioritising the phonics and the Maths activities and then doing as many of the other tasks as you can. Our Topic at the moment is ‘Winter’, so get outside especially when it is frosty or snowy and explore what the frost and snow do to the environment.

Try to have as much fun as you can Reception. Remember we have periods of the day for child initiated learning. This is an ideal time for parents to interact/ play/ question your child to help develop their understanding and encourage communication.

Take care and we can’t wait to see all of your fantastic work.

The REception Team

We would like to say a huge well done to all of the children in Reception, for performing a fantastic Nativity! We are all so proud of you! The performances are now on Teams ready for you to watch.

A reminder that the only way to access the Nativity is through Teams, with your children’s individual username and password, which was given out earlier last month. We hope you enjoy the performance!

This week, we will be having lots of fun taking part in Christmas activities, which the children will be bringing home to show you. We will also be having our last practise of our Nativity and filming the final production, so keep an eye on your Teams for when the video of your child’s class is up!

A reminder that our Christmas jumper day is Monday 14th December and all children taking part need to bring £1 into school. We will also be having our Christmas film on Friday 18th December. As the children had their non-school uniform day on Monday, they will be expected to come into school in usual school-uniform, however they are welcome to wear something festive. See Friday Focus for any additional information regarding this week’s school announcements.

The Reception team would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

In phonics this week, we will be reciting the phonemes we have previously learned – s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, e, u, r, h, b, f. Our new learning will focus on the letter ‘l’. We will be thinking of simple words we can write using the letter ‘l’, for example, ‘leg’, ‘lend’, ‘lad’, ‘lest’. We will also be recapping out tricky words and how we can use these in a sentence. The children love playing phonics games, there are some free resources on PhonicsPlay if you would like to play some at home to support their learning.

In maths this week, we are consolidating our learning from the term, using Christmas themed activities. We will be focusing on size, patterns, numbers up to 5 and shapes. The children will be creating Christmas cards using triangles, circles, squares and rectangles. Ask the children if they can spot different shapes in the environment, such as, windows, doors, bricks etc.

In the wider curriculum, we will be practising our Nativity ready to be recorded for the following week. If you haven’t already done so, can you please return your consent slips for your children to be recorded, please.

In phonics this week, we will be reciting the phonemes we have previously learned – s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, e, u, r. We will also be practising segmenting and blending words which supports our reading and spelling. We are stretching the children by asking them to segment and blend words with 4 sounds, such as, ‘s-t-a-ck’ and ‘s-t-o-p’. Our new learning this week, will focus on the phonemes ‘h’ and ‘b’. We will practise writing them and using them in simple words. We have noticed children have learned some tricky words at home, which is fantastic! Keep up the good work. Try practising letter formation at home, as this will support their writing skills.

In Maths this week, we are focusing on different ways we can make 4 and 5. We will be using double sided counters and blocks to support the children’s learning. This will help to identify we can make 4 and 5 in different ways and how we can also make different shapes using 4 and 5 blocks. We will also be learning about 1 more and 1 less. We will be having lots of fun creating our own nursery rhymes, using different objects in the classroom to represent what happens when we take 1 away. Sing ‘5 green bottles’ and ‘5 speckled frogs’ at home, it is a great way bring fun into Maths.

In the wider curriculum, we will be reading the story ‘Aliens Love Underpants’, to discuss what we mean by similarities and differences. We will create our own underpants and observe how some of us will use the same colours/patterns and some of us will choose differently. This will lead onto learning how we all have similarities and differences within ourselves.