Welcome to Reception
Mrs Deighton's Class &
Mrs Williams-Moore's Class
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Class Information
In our reception class we work together with Mrs Jones and Miss Sadler.
We will have PE on a Monday, please make sure you come to school in your PE kit every Monday.
Reading books will be changed every Monday, Wednesday and Friday if they have been read at home. Please make sure your child has their book in school on these days along with their signed reading record.
We have lots of different areas to explore both inside and outside the classroom which help us with our learning.
Our Learning this half Term
Our Topic this term is 'Food around the world'.
We will be learning all about different types of food, different countries and about staying healthy.
In maths we will be continuing to look at addition and subtraction as well as looking at capacity and patterns. We will be using the skills learnt last term to help us solve some word problems.
In Literacy we will be continuing with our phonics and also starting to learning about the structure of a sentence. We will also be learning to write labels and captions.
This half term our two literacy texts will be :-
I will not ever never eat a tomato written by Lauren Childs
Handa's Surprise written by Eileen Brown
Our Day
In Reception we start our day the minute the children enter school. The children collect whiteboards and pens as they settle and begin to mark make and write. We practice writing our names, numbers, and letters and eventually we even write sentences and complete addition and subtraction questions.
We begin the day engaging in “Phonics”. Good quality teaching of Phonics is essential to help your child develop their reading and writing skills. This is where the children will learn the letter names and the sounds they make, how to blend and segment simple words such as cat and bus, and eventually learn to read and write simple sentences.
We also have ‘Maths Meeting’ time where we explore number and shape, space and measures. In school we use ‘Ten town’ to support the teaching of number. The children love to engage with the characters and stories available. Parents can access information about Ten town at www.tentown.co.uk.
We also have a Literacy session everyday where We love to listen to stories and sing songs. We read and sing everyday through the wide range of activities such as traditional songs, making up our own stories or even listening to others. Stories and songs are a great way to develop language and listening skills.
Our wonderful Learning
Helpful Resources
Please find below some helpful resources that you may use with your child at home.
These are phonics sound that your child will be learning in school to help them read and write. You could use these sound mats to play games at home such as snap or even have your child look for items around your home that have these sounds in them and ask them to write it down.
The links above are useful websites for early years maths. You can download activities and videos to complete at home with your child.
Web sites for young children
Always review the sites ahead of time so that you are able to help your children find the best resources available within the sites. Some offer a great number of games, songs, stories, videos etc. so it is important to know the site well in order to support and develop your child’s learning.
www.busythings.co.uk
Excellent site built around the 7 areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage. You can access a free 7 day trial but you need to subscribe after this period to access the content – various subscription packages available.
Great site with some free phonics games
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Many games often recognised by children from their favourite programmes.
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Interactive books and reading activities to share with your child at home
https://nrich.maths.org/early-years
NRICH enriching mathematics offers a set of EYFS resources here:
http://www.familymathstoolkit.org.uk/advice-for-families
The National Numeracy Family Maths Toolkit is full of ideas and free activities for children and families:
http://www.ictgames.com/
Some excellent numeracy and literacy resources
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html
Lots of maths and literacy games
www.abc.net.au/children/play
Various educational games, videos and craft ideas