Please do not allow your child to play with the resources that are on the Reception patio in the morning. These have been carefully positioned and are there to support your child’s learning during the school day. Thank you for your support with this.
Noticeboard
- If your child completes one of the sides of their bookmark, please alert your child’s class teacher.
- Children need to bring their book bag into school every day. If they do not have it on a Monday, they will not be able to have a new reading book.
- We would like you to support your child to hold their pencil correctly when they are using them at home. Children should be using a tripod grip. Click here to see a BBC Bitesize video about how to hold a pencil.
Celebrations
The children have come back from the Easter holidays with lots of energy and enthusiasm. The adults in Reception have been particularly impressed with the children’s ball skills and hand-eye coordination this week. We have started our new topic ‘In the Garden’ this week. The children have loved using their new Garden Centre role play areas.
The children enjoyed planting beanstalk seeds in soil or in a paper towel. We are looking forward to watching them grow over the next few weeks. We will be looking at the different parts of plants, including the roots because some seeds are in clear plastic cups.
Star of the Week
Buttercup – Theo
Daffodil – George
Tapestry – Observation request
The focus this week is: Maths
This week you have two choices (or you could do both!)
- Every child has an addition (up to 10) colour by numbers in their book bag to complete. Click here if your child has misplaced the colouring, or they would like a challenge (up to 20 or 30!)
- Use items in your house to add them together. Encourage your child to write the number sentence down too. For example, have one group of 5 teddy bears and a group of 2 dollies. Encourage your child to write the number sentence (5 + 2 =) before writing the answer. Put the two groups together and count them again. Add the answer at the end of the number sentence to complete it.
Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices.
Apple device Andriod device Desktop
This week’s learning
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
This week, we will be learning about what makes a good friend and what you could do if you feel lonely, or if you see someone who is lonely.
Communication and Language
This week, the children will be retelling and acting out the key text ‘The Tiny Seed’.
Word of the week: setting
Physical Development
We will be learning about different ways to send and receive scarves and balls in PE. This will include bouncing with control to a partner and off of a wall, as well as juggling!
Literacy
This week we will begin our phase 4 phonics, learning about adjacent consonants and how to blend words containing mp, nd, nk, nt. These are not digraphs. For example damp, pink, sand.
Common exception words: like, so, do
Writing: This week we will be writing a set of instructions on how to plant a bean.
Maths
This week, we will be learning about spatial reasoning. The children will be matching, rotating and manipulating shapes.
Understanding the World
We will be learning about past and present botanists and scientists. We will be taking inspiration from observational drawings made by botanists and looking closely as we draw in our collaborative class book.
Religion and Worldviews
We are continuing our Big Question: “How should we live our lives?” This week we will be thinking about who or what shows us good ways to behave. For example, parents, teachers, our school rules; as well as the Bible for Christians, the Qur’an for Muslims, and the Torah for Jewish people. We will read the story “A Bucket Full of Kindness”.
Expressive Arts and Design
This week during our Music lessons we will begin to learn how to feel rhythm and respond with movement. We will also sing as part of a group.