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 🙂
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.
Week Commencing 05.10.20
We are all set up and ready to enjoy learning related to ‘The Gingerbread Man’. This week, we will also be looking at our phonic sounds s,a,t, p and the number 2.
Outside fun!
We have really been enjoying our outside provision. We change activities outside weekly but there are some things that children love to repeat daily. Observing how the season is visibly changing in our outside area is very enjoyable because we have many beautiful trees and shrubs. With the changing season comes a little more mud. Thankyou to the parents and carers who have just smiled at the mud patches on their child! We do have a ‘welly wash’ in action to reduce the walking of mud back inside the classroom. Have a look at what some of us have been up to. (Please note the very tired bee that sparked lots of amazing conversations).
The Little Red Hen
This week in reception we have been reading the story – The Little Red Hen.
We created and used actions to help retell the story.
We also thought of our own story by changing some of the characters.
