This week we will be starting our topic on ‘Super Heroes’. The children will be hearing different stories about different superheroes and we will be concentrating on the qualities a super hero needs to have. The children will be encouraged to think about how they can use similar qualities and we will be making our own class superhero that we can try and emulate. We will be involved in a variety of different activities and will be thinking bout superheroes and their skills across the different areas of learning. Next week we will be having a Superhero dress up day where the children can come in dressed as a superhero. Please do not go out and buy a costume for this day. We will be encouraging the children to think of a superhero quality and how they could represent this e.g. they may have a quality of happiness and come dressed in yellow! Obviously if your child already has a superhero costume they are welcome to wear this. A letter will be emailed to let you know when and how the children can dress this week.
The children have now been in their new phonic groups for a week and are working hard. All of the children working in green, purple and pink groups (the colour of their reading books) will be learning the set 2 sounds above. Please continue to go over these sounds regularly with your child. If your child is still working with Ditty sheets or on Red books then they have some gaps in their sound knowledge and need to continue to learn the set 1 sounds and read these in words. It is really important to do reading activities with your child each day to reinforce the learning in school. If you have any problems or are unsure what to do then please speak to your child’s class teacher. All children now have an Oxford owl log in on the front of their reading diary. Log in each week to do the activities set and click on Fred the frog to redo reading activities.
This week in Maths the children will continue to build and notice patterns with numbers beyond 10 (up to 13). We will provide opportunities for the children to recognise that the numbers 1 to 3 repeat after every full ten. So, they have 1 ten and 1, 1 ten and 2, 1 ten and 3. It is important to embed this skill with numbers to 13 first, before going up to 20. Encourage your child to count on and back from different starting points, to say what comes before or after a given number and to place numbers in order. Daily counting routines and games provide many opportunities to regularly count beyond 10.
The children have come back to the school for the summer term eager and ready to learn. It has been lovely to see how they are much more independent not only in their learning but also in their child initiated activities. Lots of the children are showing an eagerness to write now that they have the basic skills to do so. Please encourage this at home if your child is showing an interest in writing. You could provide them with their own notebook or a whiteboard to write on, and show enthusiasm with what they have written encouraging their effort rather than correcting what they may have done wrong.
As we continue into the summer term we are hoping for the weather to improve. We ask that you still send your child into school with a waterproof coat with a hood even on sunny days. The weather in the UK often changes quickly so we would like the children to be prepared for any weather. This could be something simple like a raincoat that can be folded up into their bag ( just make sure your child knows it is in there). If you have purchased any new uniform then please make sure you name this so that we can get it returned to you if your child looses it. Please also check your child’s uniform to see if their name is still visable or to make sure they have not brought home somebody else’s cardigan or jumper.
Don’t forget to send in any photos of your child’s bean plant as they grow so we can show the class the progress of them.
Have a lovely week,
The Reception Team