Noticeboard
- Please alert your child’s class teacher if your child finishes one side of their bookmark so that they can receive their first certificate in assembly. You can find information on our reading incentive by clicking here.
- 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.
- 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
This week, the children really enjoyed exploring maps. We read the story Henry’s Map and this inspired the children to create their own maps, this was either a map of a place they knew for example; their room, a journey to school or a make believe map. Lots of children enjoyed creating a treasure map! Alongside this, they have been exploring capacity in the water tray on the patio (don’t worry – the water was warm!).
Star of the Week
Daisy – Zhanna
Buttercup – Georgina
Tapestry – Observation request
The focus this week is on Communication and language skills. We would love you to share a video clip on Tapestry of your child telling us a rhyme they know off by heart.
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.
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This week’s learning
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
This week the children are going to think about a goal they could set for themselves. We will encourage the children to think of something they would like to get better at and we will collectively think of ideas on how they can achieve that goal.
Communication and Language
Our key text this week is Follow that Map! By Scot Richie
We always encourage the children to engage in story times and non-fiction books in theses ways:
- Listen to and talk about stories to build familiarity and understanding.
- Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what is being said.
- Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences.
- Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives.
- Describe some events in detail.
Word of the Week: landscape
Physical Development
We will continue our gymnastics learning in PE. The children will make star and tuck shapes on different apparatus.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be revisiting the graphemes/ phonemes: ch, sh, th, ng
And the common exception words: he, she
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 be using our phonics learning to write a short dictated sentence.
Maths
This week, we are continuing to learn about 6, 7 and 8 in depth. We will be focusing on learning about 1 more and 1 less within 8 and understanding the composition of 6, 7 and 8 (e.g. 1+7=8, 2+6=8, 3+5=8, 4+4=8 etc).
Understanding the World
We will be developing our map making skills this week by creating a map of an area we know. Follow that Map is a text which will support the children’s knowledge and understanding of maps and after reading the book we will head to the Reception patio where will take pictures of the areas noticing all the key features. The children will then have a go at creating a map of the area.
Religion and Worldviews
We will continue exploring our big question for term 3 and 4: “Why are some times special?” with a discussion of special objects people might use in celebrations.
Expressive Arts and Design
In Music this week we will be continuing with the Handa’s Surprise syllabus and the children will have a go at using xylophones to take out the beats we are learning.