Noticeboard
- Our Reception Christmas play will be on Wednesday 6th December 2023 at 9:30am.
- Please make sure your child has a coat in school every day. We will go outside even when it is cold and raining.
- 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. Please make sure the reading books come into school each day with your child.
- Your child will have come home with a Read for the Stars bookmark. You can find information on our reading incentive by clicking here.
- 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.
Celebrations
The children have settled back into the routines of the classroom extremely well this week and have especially loved creating artwork for our new ELLI animal the tortoise. As well as being creative mathematicians, designing firework rocket posters using shapes.
Tapestry – Observation request
The focus this week is Communication and Language. We would love to see a short clip of your child re-telling the story of the Hare and the Tortoise in their own words.
You can also send us any moments that you feel are significant in your child’s learning or want to share with your child’s class teachers.
Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices.
This week’s learning
This week, we will continue to learn about the ELLI Tortoise. The ELLI Tortoise doesn’t give up and keeps going when he finds things tricky. We talk to the children about ‘perseverance’, so please use this term with your child at home. Our key text to support learning is The Hare and the Tortoise.
To find out more about our ELLI animals, please click here.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
This week we will be continuing to celebrate our differences by thinking about what makes us special and unique.
Communication and Language
We will continue to share our All About Me Box. We will hear the story of the Hare and the Tortoise and act it out together.
Word of the week: Diwali
Physical Development
Our moon adventure will continue as we are developing the skills of landing and jumping.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be learning the graphemes/ phonemes: y, z, zz, qu
And the common exception words: we, be
We will practise blending phonemes to read, and segmenting words to spell them using the phonemes and graphemes we have learned so far.
Writing: We will practise segmenting the phonemes (sounds) to write some of the simple animal names from the Hare and Tortoise story eg pig, rat, using the phonics we have been learning so far.
Maths
This week, the children will be learning about the numbers 1 to 5. For 4 and 5, we will be making a number of the day poster. Alongside this we will also be learning to subitise 4 and 5 and learn about different representations.
Understanding the World
We will be describing how are senses might have felt on Bonfire night, the different sounds we might have heard, the smells we might have smelt or tastes we might have come across. We will be using vocabulary such as; crashing, banging, crackle, fire, toffee, sent, popcorn, smoky.
Religion and Worldviews
This week, we are very fortunate to have Miloni’s Mum from Buttercup coming in on Friday to tell us about how her family celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali.
Expressive Arts and Design
The children will be making Diwali Diva lamps. A Diva Lamp is an oil lamp that is used in India and Nepal and is often used as temporary lighting for special occasions such as Diwali. The lamps are placed around the home and in gardens to invite in the Goddess of Wealth, Lakshmi
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