Author: Reception team

Reading Meeting….

Good Morning!

Using the link below, you will find our virtual ‘Reading Meeting’

This gives insight into phonics and reading in school and how you can support your child’s reading at home.

The video is around 14 minutes long. Please click here to watch.

If you have any questions about anything you hear, please just ask us in person or send us an email: scholesf2@spherefederation.org

We will shortly be sending home your child’s reading pack. If you have not done so already, please send a book bag into school.

Thank you.

 

 

Welly Walk

As part of their Nature Study time with Mrs Myers, the children went on a muddy welly walk yesterday! The texture of the mud was described as “squelching”…

There was great excitement:

“We’re going on a scavenger hunt!”- Faith

“We’re going on a bear hunt”

Some fantastic discussion around the changes that happen in the season of Autumn:

“Leaves changing colour”- Reyansh

“They’ll blow off the trees!”

“They turn yellow”

Reception enjoyed listening to the story of The Gruffalo, before talking about what kind of animals they might see on the walk. There was super excitement at the discovery of a mole hill!

“We don’t want to wake them up or they’ll get frightened!”- Alice

Ask your child what their favourite part of the ‘welly walk’ was. Perhaps you have been on a welly walk recently at home? Don’t forget to share your news and photos with us:

scholesf2@spherefederation.org

 

 

 

 

Parent Partners

We know our parent partners are missing being able to come into the classroom and share learning with your child- we are missing having you in the classroom too!

We really value home-school communication and have been thinking of ways to share more of the classroom with you, given the current restrictions.

Here are the ways we will be ‘keeping in touch’ or sharing with you :

  • The last week of each half term you will receive a collage of pictures of your child playing and learning.
  • During the school year, your child will become a ‘focus child’ for a week. We ask for current interests and an up-to-date view of your child and we have a ‘catch up’ meeting at the end of the week to talk about progress and what we have noticed. The dates of your child’s focus week will be sent in advance. There will be more information on this in our upcoming Parent Partners presentation.
  • Parent presentations which would usually be face-to-face throughout the school year, will be provided through either a screencast or powerpoint slides for you to read at home. These will be posted to the class news page.
  • Class News will be posted regularly, to help you keep up-to-date on classroom learning.
  • Our Parent Partnership board in the classroom holds a postcard for each child, with notes on current interests both in school and those you share with us from home. We also display emails and photos from home on this board.

We are available to talk to about concerns or questions via email, telephone or in person at the end of the school day and we really love it when you send WOW moments of learning at home or photos of interests, trips or days out. Thank you to those who have already sent emails in.

We look forward to continued partnership with you, throughout the school year.

The Reception Team.

Phonics Fun and Zero Heroes!

Reception have been AMAZING in their first ‘carpet time’ learning sessions this week.

We’ve been playing listening games in phonics. We listened for sounds in the environment by going on a ‘sound walk’ outside and tried our best to hear the same sounds in rhyming words, by playing ‘Silly Soup’. Yesterday, our classroom ‘Everywhere Bear’  used toy-talk to sound out some words for us to blend.

Ask your child if they can show you one of the phonics games we have been playing this week.

 

In maths this week our focus number is zero. It’s really important that children understand the ‘value’ of zero. As the Numberblocks told us:

“When there’s nothing there to count and none is the amount”

The children have been super speedy at understanding that that to get to zero, we “take it all away” or there is nothing to begin with. We’ve been making some funny zero number stories together too!

The class really enjoyed our Numberblocks video this week. If you’d like to access these at home, all of the episodes are available to watch on BBC iPlayer

Please continue to send us news of your child’s interests and learning at home:

scholesf2@spherefederation.org

Another week of fun in Rainbow Class!🌈

A week full of apple collecting, pretend “bonfire” building, Numberblocks creating, train-track building, painting, music and more!

Based on the children’s interests, we’re going conker crazy on the maths table in Rainbow room next week. We’ll be weighing, comparing and counting. The small world table has been changed to a space theme after seeing lots of  great role-play with our rocket 🚀 .

I wonder if you will find any ‘ready’ conkers on a walk this weekend? Perhaps you will find something else interesting on your walk in nature instead?

Although you cannot bring special things into school at the moment, please don’t forget to email us with any new interests, achievements or news that your child would like to share with the class:

scholesf2@spherefederation.org

We are so proud of how well the children have settled so far and we look forward to welcoming more friends into Rainbow Class on Monday Morning! 🌈