Golden Stars
Every half term, each class in the school can award one pupil with a Golden Star. The stars are awarded to those children who stand out for being exceptional in many ways. The star can be worn in school daily. It is an award to aspire to and pupils throughout the school wear them with great pride. Congratulations to our Golden Star pupils!
Half-term fun!
Well done Reception, a fantastic first half-term of school life. You have all been fantastic.
We want you to enjoy your time with family over the break, to relax and have fun.
You might already have lots of plans but here are a few suggestions of things to keep you busy (only if you want to be busy of course!)
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Halloween
Wow! There has been lots of Halloween fun in reception this week!
We have enjoyed hammering golf tees into pumpkins; dressing up in different outfits; spider handprints; pumpkin printing and creating our own pumpkins using our cutting skills. 
Phonics apps and websites…
Thank you to all of our parents who joined us for our Parent Evenings this week. We’ve really enjoyed catching up with you all and sharing your child’s learning. We are so proud of them all!
We received some questions about useful websites and apps that help with phonics and letter formation. Here are some suggestions:
Apps and websites to support phonics and letter formation
Some online apps and games to support phonics and letter formation at home…
Free website– www.phonicsplay.co.uk –> click ‘free play’ –> choose phase 2 –> select a game (select options up to where your child is in their phonics learning.
(‘Dragon’s Den’, ‘Buried Treasure’ and ‘Pick a Picture’ are free without subscription)
2.99– ‘Hairy Letters’ app (available on Apple Store or Google Play)- supports sound recognition, letter formation and blending.
Free CBeebies game– ‘Get Squiggling’–> https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/get-squiggling-letters-mobile -supports letter formation.
Free website- www.phonicsbloom.com –> choose the phase suitable for your child and select a game – supports sound recognition, segmenting/ blending and tricky word recognition.
Free to register- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk –> wide selection of free e-books, including Oxford Reading Tree (Biff, Chip and Kipper) stories- supports all aspects of phonics through reading.
A game to play to support blending
In addition to word boxes for segmenting and blending, ‘Toy Talk’ is a great listening game to play to support blending.
Use a toy or teddy to segment the sounds of a picture or object. For example, if you had a picture of a cat, the toy would say ‘c-a-t’ and your child blends the sounds the toy has made together, to say the word ‘cat’
Sounds so far
These are the phonemes we have covered so far, sounded out by our super helpers in Sunshine and Rainbow class…
click here
Enjoy!
Self Isolating at Home?
Here is some home learning for when you can’t be with us at school with a welcome message from Miss Parling.
Maths
This week’s maths learning is linked to patterns and shapes.
This link will have all the sessions on for the week.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/week-3/
- Lesson 1 – Session 1 and challenge.
- Lesson 2 – Session 2 and challenge.
- Lesson 3 – Session 3 and challenge.
- Lesson 4 – Session 4 and challenge.
- Lesson 5 – Session 5 and challenge.
Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
Phonics
This week we will be recapping the sounds we have learnt so far and some new ones too.
Watch and join in the Jolly Phonics songs. Listens to s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d,g.
(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VknD1I0Zc4
- Lesson 1: Screencast recapping satpin
- Lesson 2: Screencast new sound m
- Lesson 3: Screencast new sound d
- Lesson 4: Screencast new sound g
Literacy
This week we are reading the story – Room on the Broom.
- Lesson 1: Read or watch the story. Recap the main events. Discuss the order the characters appear.
Use the sheet or draw your own broomstick and characters. Put them in the same order as in the book.
- Lesson 2: Read or listen to the story again. Stop/Pause throughout the story to find rhyming words.
- Lesson 3: Match and find rhyming words.
- Lesson 4: Look at the picture strips. Spot the odd one out.
Challenge make your own.
Topic
Choose some of these activities to complete throughout the week. They may spark other interests and ideas that result in other learning opportunities. Let your child lead the learning!
| Draw or decorate a pumpkin.
Using your own imagination or this drawing tutorial.
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| Collect toys, teddies or any objects around the house and order by size.
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| Make your own mini broom.
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| Draw around your hand or a toy and cut it out.
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| Sing the alphabet.
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| Draw your favourite part of the story or use this colouring sheet.
Room on the Broom colouring sheet
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Phonics Fun
We have been working hard to learn our sounds, correct letter formations and corresponding ‘alphabet’ names for s,a,t,p,i and n. As we are currently unable to sing indoors, we have been listening and moving to the following alphabet song.
(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
Using our new phonemes, we have been segmenting, blending and writing a mixture of CVC (consonant, vowel,consonant) words. Using the sounds we know, we have written: tap, pin, pat, pit, sat and sit on our phoneme framed whiteboards.
Our tricky word is ‘I’ so we have been finding it in books and rehearsing sentences with it in them. When talking to your child please encourage sentences that include this word.
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.
Phonics
This week in reception, we have begun to learn our red phase 2 sounds.
We have focused on our pronunciation and correct letter formations to form s,a,t,p.
We have enjoyed listening to the Jolly Phonics jingles and joining in with the actions.
Saying these letter rhymes helps us to form our letters correctly.
Can your child find any objects around the house or outside that have these sounds?
Run, run as fast as you can…
In literacy, we have had a brilliant week rehearsing and retelling the story of The Gingerbread Man. Please ask your child to retell it to you complete with actions. Can they use the story map to help them?
In Maths, the children have enjoyed matching numerals to quantities of buttons to decorate the gingerbread men. We have also concentrated on the number two and forming this correctly.
We created ginger dough to role play making and baking our own gingerbread men.
School Photo Day- Wednesday 14th October
Thank you to one of our parents who has spotted that school photo day falls on a PE day!…
Please send your child to school in their school uniform not their PE Kit on Wednesday 14 October.
This will ensure we capture them looking super-smart in their first school photo 🙂
