Reception weekly news

 Weekly News 

This week many of the children have stayed all day and have been using the woodland area for play time. You may have noticed children coming home rather muddy! The children are managing to take off their shoes and put on their wellies really well and lots of children are trying hard to put their coats on by themselves. Please keep practising with this at home.

The children should all have a picture book in their bookbags to share at home. Please can they bring their bookbags in every day as this is a good habit to get into.  We will also be going to the school library once a week and the day we go will vary, so it would be really helpful if they being their book bag into school each day. Thank you.

We have introduced the number of the day. We will look at how the numbers are formed and practise writing them, we will practise making and finding that number using cubes, dice, numicon and a looking for it on a number line.  We will also be watching Number Blocks during our snack time to reinforce the learning. This week we learnt all about numbers 1,2,3 and 4. Ask your child if they can tell you the rhyme to write the numbers correctly.

We have started to put some observations on tapestry, please let us know if you haven't received one yet or are having any problems logging in. Following government guidelines we will not be able to write in your child's red reading record which we have put in their book bag, instead we will be sending you a note via tapestry when we look at books with your child. This will be an invaluable form of communication between us.

Week beginning Monday 12th October

If your child is absent from school, we thought it would be helpful for you to know what we will be teaching the children at school so that you could continue the learning with your child 

This week in Reception we will be learning about rhyme and alliteration. We will be listening to lots of rhyming stories and playing rhyming games. We will also be playing some games to help the children to hear alliteration for words that begin with the same sound. 

Maybe you could play eye spy with your child at home to help the listen for initial sound in words.

We are going to continue to teach the children a 'number of the day.' We will be learning all about the numbers 5,6,7 and 8.

In our continuous provision the children will have free flow access to all areas which will include opportunities to paint, work on their fine motor, mark making and exploring the maths area with our number of the day table. They will also have lots of opportunities to interact and play alongside each other and we will support them with turn taking and sharing.