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Week 3

Our first full week in Reception without our grown-ups is complete!

We have been getting to know one another and our environment and learning the rules and routines at school. Despite a few tears, we are all settling in well!

Next week we will be starting our topic - Space! Our first story will be 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy,

Perhaps this weekend you could look at pictures of The Moon. Or even better, see if you can spot The Moon in the sky (as long as it's not past your bedtime!)

Week 4

Literacy

This week , we focused on developing our listening skills by learning how to listen carefully and understanding why listening was important. We also practiced articulating our ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences. During the week, we read the story Whatever Next! by Jill Murphy, in which Baby Bear embarked on an adventure to the moon. We strengthened our communication and language skills by discussing the main events of the story, as well as the setting and the characters.

Maths

This week, we learned how to count objects, actions, and sounds. We practiced counting out loud and matching numbers to groups of objects up to 10. We enjoyed fun activities that helped us understand that we count to find out “how many” things there are.

In phonics, we have been revisiting and reviewing all the sounds we have learnt so far as well as beginning to read and write simple words.

We have been busy in phonics learning more sounds;

s a t

We used these sounds to make words:

at, sat,

Reminders:

Our Meet the teacher is on 30th September.
Please make ensure your children have a spare clothes at school.

Reception Sun & Moon

Week 7

This week, we read “The Leaf Thief” by Alice Hemming. It was a lovely story about a squirrel who was counting the leaves outside his home when he realised one was missing. Who was the Leaf Thief? Could it have been Bird? We created beautiful pictures using real leaves, had lots of fun sticking them onto a big piece of paper, and used our sounds to write simple words to label our work.

This week, we learned how to sort objects by colour, size, and texture. We used colourful leaves that we collected from our secret garden and sorted them by size and colour. Our key maths words were: sort, match, same, different, groups, and size.

We were busy in phonics learning our first set of sounds;

s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u

You can practise reading the following words:

at, it, an, in, and, dad, sit, mat, pig, sat, pat, pit, man, map, sip, nip, nap, pet, end, up, got, get, mum, duck,

Tricky words we learnt are:

is, I, to, a, the

The caption for this week was:

pet duck is in the mud