We’d like to welcome back all of our children for their second half term in Reception. We have lots of exciting activities planned for the coming weeks and are hoping the children are well rested and ready to begin learning lots of new skills again.
This week the children will be starting phonics in their new phonics groups. These have been chosen based on how well your child could recall the first 16 sounds we had taught prior to the half term holiday and how well they were aurally and orally blending words for reading. The children will continue to recap sounds we have already taught and learn new sounds depending on the group they are in. The groups in Reception are very fluid, so we welcome lots of practise at home so your child can make accelerated progress through the phonics groups.
In maths this week, we will be learning all about shapes. The children will begin the week investigating triangles and circles and looking at the properties of these shapes. The children will have a go at making some shape pictures using these shapes. We will then be comparing and finding these shapes in our environment. The children will progress to describing position using the language of under, below, between, next to, on and in. They will use these words to describe objects in pictures and in their learning environment too. We will end the week talking about direction, completing obstacle courses describing how we move using the words over, under, through and around. Your child could have a go spotting shapes in their homes or on the way to school. Can they describe how they get to school or nanny’s house? Do they go across the road? Past the park? Over the bridge?
This week we will be learning all about Bonfire Night. We will be taking about how people celebrate Bonfire Night, sharing the children’s own experiences. We will talk all about how to keep ourselves safe on Bonfire Night. The children will learn about why Bonfire Night is celebrated, learning all about Guy Fawkes and the story of the Gunpowder Plot. The children will read stories about Bonfire Night and will create lots of artwork about fireworks too.
Have a wonderful week,
The Reception Team