This week we will be focusing on ‘Oracy’. Research shows that the quality of a child’s early language development is a powerful predictor of their future academic success and life chances. The research is clear that those children who are supported to develop strong language skills in their earliest years are more likely to succeed in school and work and lead happier lives. We will be developing oracy this week by encouraging the children to read familiar Nursery rhymes as well as performing a series of poems linked to our healthy living topic. We want the children to be confident in speaking out and using their own voice. We will encourage the children to act out stories using puppets as well as acting out roles using different props. Encourage your child to join in with stories when reading to them and sing/say some familiar nursery rhymes such as ‘Twinkle Twinkl little star, Humpty Dumpty, Incy Wincy Spider, Little Miss Muffet etc. Try to do these without the use of technology so children are not relying on watching a screen but are engaged in the activity and using their own memory to say/sing the rhyme.
In Math’s this week, children will build on the learning from previous steps by now manipulating shapes. Children will explore moving, turning, rotating and flipping shapes to fit into the spaces provided. In this small step, tangram pieces are introduced for the first time and children will use their previous knowledge of positional language and now progress to explaining more complex shape arrangements.
This week the children will be assessed on the sounds they have been learning over the past few weeks. Once assessed children will be moved into their new groups for the final time this academic year. Continue to go over the sounds your child has been taught so far this year and put the sounds into words to ensure your child is able to read the sounds within words confidently. Below are some extra blending video’s to help develop this skill.
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/8gRbHSOb/LsOysl9W
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/osBNOofd/M2EHTp0j
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/8psGyYdk/N2rzy2SZ
This Thursday we will be celebrating Cultural diversity in our school with a cultures day. We would love your child to come in to school dressed in the colours associated with where in the world you and your family come from. This could be national dress or coming in, dressed in the colours of your country’s flag. If you come from a different part of the world (non UK) then please send in a little note about where you are from and anything we may find interesting (or feel free to email this information). We will be looking at a world map and marking on the different parts of the world our families are from. We are looking forward to learning all about the wonderful parts of the world that the children in our classes come from.
We break up this Friday for the half term break. Please encourage your child to be active over the break and not rely on an increased use of technology. They have done lots of work over the last few weeks on Healthy living and on how they can stay healthy. One of the things we have talked about is reducing the time spent on technology and being more active so you could talk about this with them. Thank you to those parents who have sent in photo’s of their child enjoying fruit kebabs at home. The children loved making fruit kebabs in school and were really enthusiastic about the activity. Your child could make simple kebabs at home with a cocktail stick or kebab stick or my just putting cut up fruit in a bowl. This is a great way to get them enjoying different types of fruit.
Have a lovely half term break and we will see you back in school on Monday 1st June for our final few weeks of your child’s Reception Year!
The Reception Team