Due to KS2 SAT’s we will not be doing Read Write Inc this week. The children will be doing a range of reading, writing and spelling activities in their class. The class teachers will also be hearing each individual child read to assess how well they are doing with their reading. Please continue to read every night at home. We are noticing some children are only reading their online book once and some children are not logging on regularly. The children should be able to read these books fluently as they have read them several times in school. If your child is still sounding out every word then they need extra practise. Your child will not bring home reading books this week and there will not be an online book set. Instead they will have their log in details to log in to ‘Readingwise’, a phonic spelling and reading programme. Please log in each day and encourage your child to spend 5 minutes a day on Readingwise to help support them in their phonics work in school. A letter will come home on Friday explaining everything.
This week in Maths we will be looking at capacity – identifying which container holds more and making estimates on how many cubes fit in each container. We will also be working on shape patterns and tangrams where we have to fit shapes inside another shape. We will be going over our number bonds to 5 and 10 and will continue to work on numbers to 20. Keep practising these important skills regularly.
This week we have started our ‘Healthy Me’ topic. We will be learning about the different ways to be healthy and how we can be healthy. We will be learning about healthy foods and at the end of the week we will be making healthy fruit kebabs. We will also be learning about how we keep our bodies healthy through exercise and will experience some different types of exercise and the effects it has on our bodies. Please support us at home by talking about food choices with your child and encourage them to eat and drink healthy foods.
The weather is due to get a lot warmer over the next couple of weeks. Please make sure you apply sun cream to your child before they come to school. Staff are not allowed to put sun cream on your child so please apply a long lasting cream that should last them the day. We also ask that you provide a named sun hat and a bottle of water. As the British weather is so unpredictable we ask that even on sunny days your child brings a waterproof jacket so that they are protected if the weather changes.
Have a good week,
The Reception Team