- We have a fantastic pirate day coming up on Tuesday 15th January. The children will need to be dressed as pirates for the day. Please can they come to school in their costumes ready to get started. It is a fantastic workshop and we know the children will love it. Thank you to all the adults who are able to join us. If you would like to dress up too that would be wonderful.
- Please could we have some more junk for the creative area- small boxes, yogurt pots, tubes etc We would be grateful if any one has any tube pasta we can have for making necklaces next week.
- It is really important that the children have a coat and hat and gloves with them everyday.
- Important date for your diary: Reception Assembly is on February 8th.
- World Book Day-7th March.
- Reception Fair trade Cafe: Tuesday 12th March. You are invited to come along and sit with your child and buy some fair trade food and drink from our cafe.
- The children need their PE kit in school next week please.
- Things to do...
- Listen to your child read everyday. Morning time is best! Don't forget to read to your child, this helps them understand the importance of expression and they learn new vocabulary.
- Play maths games.
- This week the children have continued phonics focusing on individual letter sounds. They have learnt the sounds 'f'' and the greedy sounds 'ff''. See if your child can sound out and blend back the CVC words below.
We hope that you all had a wonderful restful holiday and the children are all feeling refreshed and ready to learn!
This week the children have done some fabulous writing. They worked with an adult in a small group. They had to think about a sentence about the holidays and have a go at writing it. They were reminded at the beginning that every sentence starts with a capital letter, has finger spaces and ends with a full stop. The children rehearsed their sentence and then sounded out each word using their phoneme fingers. Some children were able to write the sounds they needed unaided, others relied on the alphabet card in order to identify the letters.
In maths this week the children have been learning to add two numbers together. Some children did this practically with equipment, others used dots and some recorded with numerals . Some children also practised counting on. Putting the largest number in their head first. We challenged some children further to make the same amount in different ways using a systematic approach eg 0 + 10, 1 + 9, 2 + 8, 3 + 7, 4 + 6, 5 + 5, 6 + 4, 7+ 3, 8 + 2, 9 + 1, 10 + 0.
In woodland learning the children have been thinking about Winter. They looked at some Christmas cards and brainstormed 'wintery' words. They then went on a walk and identified signs of Winter. The children used the ipads to take photographs of the environment. They came back to class and had a go at drawing the trees they had photographed.
In phonics this week the children have learnt the phonemes 'f' and 'ff'. See if your child and segment and blend the following words. They could also practise forming the letter 'f'.
f: fish, fin, fan, fed, fat, fox
ff: puff, stuff, stiff, cuff, fluff, cliff, off (ff is a greedy phoneme and often comes at the end of a word).
Enjoy your weekend!
The Year R Team
