Category: Reception Blog

Welcome to the Reception Blog. We will regularly update this blog, sharing the different activities we will be doing during the week ahead. This will give you an insight into the activities your child is doing in class and will give you ideas of things you could do at home to support your child’s learning.

This week we will be starting our Autumn topic. The children will be learning all about Autumn and the changes that occur. We will be going on an Autumn walk around the school site looking for Autumn foliage to make a classroom collection and use the collection in both our play and learning times. If you are out and about on a walk please collect any leaves that have changed colours, acorns, conkers or any other Autumn foliage that we could use and send them in to school – all donations will be gratefully received. We will be looking at the story of ‘Leaf Man’ and will be making our own leaf people or animals. Talk to your child about the Autumn and the changes that occur. How is the Autumn different to summer that we just experienced. How do we dress in the Autumn?

The children have now completed their second week of Read, Write Inc phonics and have been introduced to a number of letter sounds. Your child should have brought home a print out of the letters covered so far. Please cut these out along the small dotted line and fold them so that the picture is on one side and the grapheme (letter) on the other side. Get into the habit of going through these every night as this is your child’s reading activity. Start putting the sounds together to make simple CVC words such as m-a-t and s-i-t. Your child will need to be fluent with all of the set 1 sounds and able to blend them into words before they move on to a reading book. The children bring a Library book home on a Friday for you to share. Please read this to your child and enjoy the story together several times over the week. Return the book each Friday so that your child can choose a new one.

In Maths this week we will be looking at comparison and using the correct language. We will be looking at more and less, tall and short, big and small and long and short. It is important that children understand the language of maths to be able to solve problems and explain their thinking. See if you can use this language with your child while they are playing. Can they find the big item and the small one? Can they identify which toy is taller or shorter or longer or shorter. Can they tell you which group has more and which has less?

That children have all settled in well to school and have been working hard to learn the routines and expectations. Over the year we will be working hard on helping the children develop their independence. You can help at home by encouraging your child to put their own shoes on and take them off, by dressing themselves, by tidying up their toys and by helping them to learn how to do things by themselves. Over the next few weeks the children will be encouraged to put on their own coats and try to do them up by themselves. Please work with your child on this so that they are not always waiting for an adult to this for them.

We would like to say a big thank you to all those parents that have been contributing the weekly 50p to help enhance our continuous provision. We have been using the money to make things like playdough and buying resources to support children’s creative play. Please contribute if you can so that we can offer a variety of experiences for the children and make their time in Reception as varied as possible.

From Monday 2nd of October Reception’s P.E day will change from a Friday to a Monday. Please send your child into school on Monday in their P.E kit. Can we also ask you to please check that all of your child’s clothes are named. We have already gained a selection of un-named items and if not named then it is difficult to know who to return them to. Please also name shoes as many of the children have the same shoes and they take them off weekly for yoga sessions.

If you have any problems or concerns then please speak to a member of the team or email [email protected] or [email protected]

Have a lovely week

The Reception Team

Our topic this week is ‘Around the world’ We will be looking at a world map and the different places where people live or where their families are from. We will be studying climates in different countries and locating different countries on a map. We will be discussing different types of housing in other countries and comparing them to our own houses. Does your house have a garden? Is it attached or detached? Is it a house, bungalow or flat?

In maths we will be learning about odd and even numbers. We will be investigating putting objects into pairs and seeing if there are any left over. We will also be making models with cubes, copying and matching them. Can your child share objects and work out which amounts are odd and which are even when shared between two?

We are working hard in our new groups. Some groups have recapped sounds this week and some groups have learnt new sounds. We are working so hard in phonics and this being shown off in their writing and reading. An extra well done for those children who are doing their online work and practising their reading book at home. Those children who are consistently completing their online homework and reading regularly are the children who are making the best progress. Please continue to read every night at home as this gives your child the best support in helping them to move forward with their phonics.

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Thank you so much to all the parent’s who attended RKM’s assembly.

The lovely weather is set to continue so please can you provide your child with a named sunhat and a water bottle each day. There are still a few children coming to school without a water bottle . Please provide water and not squash. Please can you also apply sun cream to your child before they come to school as we are unable to apply it on them. Many brands do an 8 hour cream which means your child doesn’t need to reapply it in school. Thanks for your support.

Have a great week.

The Reception Team

Our topic this week is ‘changing me’. We will be looking at how we have changed since we are babies and how we continue to grow and change. We will discuss what we can do now that we couldn’t do when we were babies and how we will learn new things as we get older and turn in to adults. We will be naming and learning the parts of the body. We will also be learning about our differences and identifying where were born and looking at a map to see the different countries that we were born in. Can your child tell you what they can do now that they couldn’t do when they first started school?

This week we have assessed the children’s phonics and therefore some children may change phonics groups from next week. We have seen fantastic progress! We are working so hard in phonics and this being shown off in their writing and reading. An extra well done for those children who are doing their online work and practising their reading book at home. Those children who are consistently completing their online homework and reading regularly are the children who are making the best progress. Please continue to read every night at home as this gives your child the best support in helping them to move forward with their phonics.

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In Maths this week we will be learning about sharing and grouping. We will learn how to share into two groups and more. We will be using practical apparatus to see what equal and unequal looks like. Can your child share objects, sweets, toys equally between two or more people?

This is the link to last week’s doubles rap for the children’ to practise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik_-OAgzD-8

Thank you so much to all the parent’s who attended RMT’s assembly. This Wednesday the 14th June is RKMs assembly. Please join us if you can at 8.50 am.

There will be a letter going home this week about our ‘changing me ‘topic. Please can you provide a baby picture of your child with their name on the back.

The lovely weather is set to continue so please can you provide your child with a named sunhat and a water bottle each day. There are still a few children coming to school without a water bottle . Please provide water and not squash. Please can you also apply sun cream to your child before they come to school as we are unable to apply it on them. Many brands do an 8 hour cream which means your child doesn’t need to reapply it in school. Thanks for your support.

Have a great week.

The Reception Team

Our topic this week is Summer. We will be learning about the different seasons and what we can see and do in the Summer. We will learn about the weather in the Summer and how it is different to the other seasons. We will also learn what is good about the sun and how we can keep safe in the sun. Can your child say what clothes are suitable to wear in the sun? What can we do to protect ourselves in the sun?

Our writing just keeps getting better and better! We are working so hard in phonics and this being shown off in their writing and reading. An extra well done for those children who are doing their online work and practising their reading book at home. This really helps in consolidating their learning.

Please continue to read every night at home as this gives your child the best support in helping them to move forward with their phonics. By re-reading the same text it allows your child to build both pace and fluency which will help them become a confident fluent reader. Please also remember to do your ‘Reading wise’ activities as extra phonic practise.

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https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/qAIKCOjU/gqlo4k5R

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In maths this week we will be learning doubles to 10 and beyond. We will be making doubles butterflies practically, playing doubles games with dominoes, dice, numicon and cubes. We will also be learning doubles facts. Can your child use a dice to throw a number and work out its double?

We have had some lovely weather recently so please can you provide your child with a named sunhat and a water bottle each day. There are still a few children coming to school without a water bottle . Please provide water and not squash. Please can you also apply sun cream to your child before they come to school as we are unable to apply it on them. Many brands do an 8 hour cream which means your child doesn’t need to reapply it in school. Thanks for your support.

On Wednesday 7th June RMT will doing a class assembly. All parents are welcome to attend. On Wednesday 14th June RKM will be doing an assembly.

Have a great week.

The Reception Team