Friday 24th May

Useful information and requests:

• Please ensure your child has a hat and water bottle every day. Please apply sun cream before school.
• Sports Day is on Thursday 13th June. You are invited to come and watch. The children will need to bring their trainers in on this day please. 
• Show and Tell- We would like each child to prepare and practise a short talk about something they are proud of.  The talks will take place on Wednesday and Friday afternoon. Please ensure they have any props/photographs with them ready for the Wednesday of their week.


Week commencing June 3rd -Green Group
Week commencing June 10th - Yellow group

• Things to do, to support your child...
• Look at coin denominations.
• Talk about 2d and 3d shapes in the environment
• Please ensure that your child can read those 45 high frequency words over half term. They are key to reading Yellow level.
• This week in phonics we have revised 'ai', 'ee', 'igh' and 'oa'.

Thank you for coming to the Reception Assembly today. We hope you enjoyed it. We felt the children did really well. It was also lovely for them to have the opportunity to share their Learning Journals with you and super that so many siblings could attend as the Junior School was closed.

We have had a busy week with lots of practising for our Assembly.  It has also been Eco Week this week, so we have been trying to think about how we can look after our environment and stop climate change! The children have made posters with ideas to help us save energy, water and stop pollution etc.

In maths this week the children have had a brief introduction to coins and the the range of  denominations that there are. Your child would benefit from handling coins at home. Ask them to find the total amount of a few coins - start with 1p and 2ps! When counting the 2s tap twice! They could also use coins to pay for something in a shop so that they understand why we have coins and that we are sometimes given change!

The children have also been revising 2d and 3d shapes. This rhyme might help your child with their 3d shapes:

Cube, cube what’s your clue - 6 square faces all over you

Cuboid, cuboid what’s your clue - You look like a tissue box achooo!

Cylinder, cylinder what’s your clue - You can stand up or roll about too

Sphere, sphere what’s your clue - You look like a ball that you kick with your shoe

Cone, cone what’s your clue - Don’t let your ice cream drip on you!
Here is a link to a you tube clip:  2d shapes

It has been lovely to have sunshine this week. Please remember to send your child into school with a sun had and sun cream already applied.

In PE the children have been learning to throw and catch a ball. They played team games including a relay race balancing a ball on a racket. We will be practising for Sports Day over the next couple of weeks.

Have a lovely restful half term holiday. Next term is a long one! How can the children already be about to leave us? We will miss them.
The Year R Team

Friday 17th May

Useful information and requests:

• 'Show and Tell' We would like each child to prepare and practise a short talk about something they are proud of.  The talks will take place on Wednesday and Friday afternoon. Please ensure they have any props/photographs with them ready for the Wednesday of their week.


Week commencing May 20th- Orange Group
Week commencing June 3rd -Green Group
Week commencing June 10th - Yellow group


• Reception Assembly is on Thursday 23rd May at 9.15 You are invited to come and watch and then come back to the class to look at the children's Learning Journals.

• Things to do, to support your child...
• Next week we will be learning about time, money, 2d and 3d shapes in maths. It would benefit your child if you could speak to them about the different times of the day and what happens at these times e.g. morning/ afternoon/ evening. Talk about the days of the week and months of the year. and about the values of the different coins and perhaps they could buy something from a shop so they understand why we have money. Look at 2d and 3d shapes in the environment and see if your child can describe them.
• Phonics - This week the children have recapped the digraph- 'ng'.

We have all really enjoyed having some sunshine this week and have had lots of fun playing outside.

In phonics we have continued to recap the digraphs. This week we have looked at the digraph 'ng':

See if your child can write the words: ring, string, king, stung, ping pong, long.

We are continuing to practise the key words at school. Please can you ensure that you are practising these with your child at home too. They are essential for our children to be  confident readers at Yellow Level which is where we would ideally like them to be. Choose a few words each week to focus on and play games such as pairs with them or stick them around the house so that your child has to read them when they go past them.

We have spent some time practising for our assembly this week. We look forward to seeing you there next Thursday. The children have been learning songs and rhymes and their class story to share with you. 

We have focused on PSHE this week. The children have completed three adult directed activities in Jigsaw. These were:

Activity 1: What makes a good friend

First the children played a game in pairs making a jigsaw friend by rolling a dice and taking different body parts to build a friend. Then they looked at a picture of a 'lonely child'. They thought about how they could help that child and how they could be a good friend.

Activity 2: Being the best friend we can be.

The children listened to to song 'You've got a friend in me' from Toy Story. They then played a game matching pairs of friends e.g Buzz & Woody, Timone & Pumba, Elsa & Anna, Lilo & Stitch, Marlin & Dory, Sully & Mike, Mowgli & Baloo, Tinkerbell & Peter Pan.

We then talked about what makes a good friend and the different games we could play together. 

Activity 3: Falling out and being mean.  The teacher pulled out a selection of phrases from a box and the children discussed them and thought about how they would make them feel if someone said them. For example: 'You can't play with me'.

'Would you like to join us?'

'You can't come to my party'

'I like what you have made.'

'I am telling on you.'

We encouraged the children to think about what they say before they speak as everyone has feelings and we need to be kind to each other.

They then watched a clip on You tube of ‘sesame street: Cookie Monster makes Kermit mad’ We discussed the following questions:  How do we know he is angry?  What do people do when they are angry?  We discussed the clip and how we could help Kermit feel better and how Cookie Monster could have been more considerate.

Only 1 week to go until the final half term of Reception! Where has this year gone?

The Year R Team