Friday 25th May

Useful information and requests:

• A special quiz is being held in aid of Jossie on Thursday 7th June. We hope to see many of you there.
• We are still looking for natural materials to be used in the mud kitchen including fir cones, small sticks, shells and stones. We are also in need of more lentils, rice and pasta for our trays.
• Please can we remind you to ensure that your child has a water bottle, a hat and please apply sun cream before school.
• If you have any large square or rectangular scarves that you no longer need we would be very grateful if you could donate them to us for dressing up.
• We are now collecting empty Heinz tomato ketchup/salad cream (400ml) bottles to use for paint.
• Things to do...
• We have revised the phase 3 sounds - ai, ee, igh, oa
• Please read with your child. Encourage your child to first tell the story using the  pictures, identify high frequency words on each page and then  encourage your child to sound out and blend words together. Once your child has decoded a sentence it is important to encourage them to go back and re-read the sentence to gain fluency and work on expression.
• Play maths games, rhyming games and read to your child!

Thank you for coming to the Reception class assembly. We really hope that you enjoyed it. They did a fantastic job- all remembering their lines and staying focused. They looked great in their costumes again!

 The children really enjoyed having the opportunity to share their learning journals with you. Thank you for filling in the comments slip, these will be put into the children's learning journals.

This week the children spent some time  learning their lines and the songs for our assembly. They have also had phonics and have revised the phonemes: ai, ee, igh and oa.
ai:snail, sail, hail, rain, train
ee: teeth, three, bee, tree,
igh: light, fight, bright, right, night
oa: goat, coat,  boat, coach

In quick maths the children have been practising their addition and subtraction by counting on and back. e.g. 7 + 3= We put the largest number in our head and count on three more 7, 8, 9, 10. We demonstrated pointing at a counting stick but the children could also use their fingers to count on and back.  The children have also been doubling and halving numbers. On Friday we looked at solving mathematical problems such as:

• Can you draw a shape with three sides?
• My shape has 4 sides, all the sides are the same length, what shape is it?
• Think of a number that is more than 5
• Think of a number that is less than 12
• Think of a number that is more than 3 but less than 5
• Think of two numbers that make the total 10

In ChIL this week the children have been playing in the sunshine and the rain! The children have particularly enjoyed playing with the clay and making all sorts of insects.

  

We hope you have a lovely half term break.  Only half a term left in Reception- this year has flown by!

The Year R Team

Friday 18th May

Useful information and requests:

• The Reception class Assembly will be on Thursday 24th May at 9.15. Please can the children come to school in their Fairy tale costume (please also bring school clothes in a bag).We very much hope that you will be able to attend. There will be an opportunity to look at your child's learning journal after the assembly.
• We are trying to raise as much money as possible to help Jossie. We are planning to hold a silent auction and are in need of prizes.  If anyone is able to get hold of prizes or offer a service such as: babysitting, French lessons, tutoring, a few hours of DIY we would be very grateful. Also if you have any connections who could provide prizes please ask!
• We are still looking for natural materials to be used in the mud kitchen including fir cones, small sticks, shells and stones. We are also in need of more lentils, rice and pasta for our trays.
• Please can we remind you to ensure that your child has a water bottle, a hat and please apply sun cream before school.
• If you have any large square or rectangular scarves that you no longer need we would be very grateful if you could donate them to us for dressing up.
• We are now collecting empty Heinz tomato ketchup/salad cream (400ml) bottles to use for paint.
• Things to do...
• We have revised the the phase 3 sound - ch, sh, th, ng
• Please read with your child. Encourage your child to first tell the story using the  pictures, identify high frequency words on each page and then  encourage your child to sound out and blend words together. Once your child has decoded a sentence it is important to encourage them to go back and re-read the sentence to gain fluency and work on expression.
• Ask your child to count on and back from any number up to 20. Ask them to tell you what is 1 more and 1 less. Encourage your child to have a go at counting in 2s or 5s or 10s.
• Please read fairy tales and traditional tales with/to your child.

On Friday we had great fun celebrating the Royal Wedding. During the week our Literacy activities have been linked to the wedding and our Fairy tales workshop.  The children had to write a simple sentence inviting their friend to the celebrations and think about a capital letter at the beginning, finger spaces and a full stop. They also talked about the layout of the invitation. The children also thought about the clothes they may wear for such a celebration. They then drew and labelled pictures of themselves in their party clothes.

On Friday we started the day with an assembly introducing the Royal wedding. Some of the Juniors in year 6 then came to make things with us. The children made crowns and flags.

After playtime we went for a colour run around the field. Thank you for all the donations you made towards Jossie's fund. In reception we collected a whopping £200! 

In the afternoon we had a lovely picnic on the field. 

Other adult directed activities this week have included: making bread, using the iPads and making potions.

Some of the children requested to make bread at home so here is the recipe we followed at school:

First they looked at a book of spells and discovered there were no spells written in it so they had to think of some themselves. They then went outside to collect some ingredients. They followed the recipe to turn someone into a slug, a frog, a millipede. Each recipe had to have 3 ingredients. The children then made their own recipes up.

During ChIL some of the children have chosen to do activities related to the Royal Wedding.

In phonics this week we have recapped more of the Phases 3 sounds. Please encourage your child to read and write these words.

ch- chair, cheese, chick, chat, rich, chin, cheek, chips

sh- sheep, shark, fish, ship, cash

th- thumb, thump, thin, thick, moth, three

ng- king, long, ring, sang, song, bang, gong

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year R Team