Reception

Reception

 

Welcome back, I hope you have had a lovely Easter break.  I can't believe we are heading into the last term of the year.  We have lots more exciting learning planned.  Our learning in Summer 1 will be focused on 'The Great Outdoors' and linked to the texts 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'.

 

Please scroll down to see some of our amazing learning.

Your teacher is Mrs Smith 

 

Reminders:

Sun Safety

We are all enjoying this lovely weather in EYFS.  We are lucky to have lots of shaded areas to learn in and do encourage breaks from the direct sun. The children also have assess to their water bottles at all times when learning outside.

 

Please help us by providing a sun hat, water bottle and apply sun cream before school.

 

Thank you for your continued support.

 

 

Uniform

Please can I remind all parents that trainers are not school uniform and must not be worn to school.

 

PE

PE is on Monday and Friday 

Information from school uniform policy:

 

PE kits can be left on pupil's pegs for the 1/2 term and will be sent home for washing before the holidays.

 

Home Learning

 

• Reading books are changed on Tuesday
• Homework is sent home in the yellow learning log on Fridays and is to be returned on the following Wednesday
• Sound and word envelopes have been sent home and are updated weekly to reflect learning in class.  Please practise these sounds and words as often as possible.

 

 

Outdoor Learning

Please leave a named water bottle, wellies and waterproof coat in school at all times and bring sun cream and a sun hat when the weather is hot.

 

Important dates:

April 23rd - St George's Day

May 2nd - Trip to Heaton Park

May 6th - Bank Holiday

May 23rd - Cheshire Ice Cream Farm

May 24th - British Values Day/ Celebrating Our Differences

School closes on 24th May until June 10th

 

 

 

 

Class events:

Welly Walk

We really enjoyed our walk around Fog Lane Park.  We found lots of interesting things in the environment.

           

 

Our Hedgehog Homework

Thank you to all the children and their families who worked so hard on the wonderful friends for Needles, our class hedgehog.  Needles loved meeting all his new spiky friends.

They were all amazing and very creative!

 

    Let's Blast Off!

Here is some of our space learning...

We talked about what we already know and what we want to find out about.

 

We have created a story map for 'Aliens Love Underpants'.

  

We have been describing aliens and even making our own.

 

Alien maths

We rolled the dice to see how many eyes each alien had.  We then had to find out how many eyes they had altogether.  We recorded our findings in various ways including tally marks, pictures and calculations.  Great number work!

 

Dinosaurs

 

 

We measured the foot print of a T-Rex!

 

 

We made up a dance for 'Dinosaurs and all that rubbish'.  We were very good at showing how cross the dinosaurs were that the world was ruined.

 

  

 

We designed our own new dinosaur discoveries and used lots of different textures.  We enjoyed exploring textures around us and writing about our dinosaurs.

  

 

Chinese New Year

We have really loved finding out all about China and Chinese New Year.  This year is the year of the pig.  We were either born in the year of the snake (2013) or the year of the horse (2014).  Do you know the zodiac animal for the year of your birth?

 

Healthy Body, Healthy Me

We really enjoyed using the book 'Handa's Surprise' to explore fruits and different countries.

  

   

As we approached Easter, we all really liked exploring the text "Little Red Hen'.  We even made up our own class story 'The Busy Blackbird".

   

 

 

The Great Outdoors

 

Here is a little glimpse of some of our wonderful learning from this half term.

 

   

 

Our topic for Summer 1 is 'The Great Outdoors'

Through the story of 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' we will explore adventures and look at different habitats.  We will use our problem solving and co-operation skills to build dens and outdoor shelters.  We will explore the wildlife in our local environment and look closely at the changes we are seeing as we go through spring.  As part of this we will also look at the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and take care of some of our own caterpillars, as we watch them turn into beautiful butterflies.

 

   

         

 

 

In Maths, we will continue to practise counting forwards and backwards from different numbers and in different steps (2s, 5s and 10s).  We will practise these skills practically, such as making prices using 2ps, 5ps and 10ps.  We will further consolidate our understanding of the processes of addition and subtraction through problem solving and exploring ways in which we can record our findings.  We will continue to explore sharing, doubling and halving looking at number and shape.  We will revisit our learning on shape, space and measure applying this to everyday problems and our environment.

 

In literacy, we will be continuing our work on phase 4 phonics.  This is focused on using the sounds learnt in phases 2 and 3, segmenting and blending for reading and spelling.  We will continue to learn how to use these skills to write and read simple words, captions and focus on forming simple sentences with more independence.  We will continue to share lots of stories and talking about story structure.   We will use this developing understanding to write our own short narratives.  We will also look at some other forms of writing such as fact files and instructions. 

 

We will continue to practise our good listening and talking skills working with talk partners and in group discussions.

 

Here is a sneaky peek at our topics...

 

 

Our curriculum is unique. The 'Early Years Foundation Stage' Curriculum enables children to develop the skills needed to become happy, successful and life long learners. Click the link to find out more about the Early Years Curriculum- Early Years Development Matters Document see below

 

The children access the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum through a mixture of adult directed and child initiated activites. Our activites are completed in both our inside and outside classroom so please ensure your child is is equipped for the weather each day! 

 

We plan in line with the chidlren's observed interests and wecome you to let us know if there is something at home that your child has expressed a particular interest in.

 

Please feel free to approach us with any ideas, expertise and/or resources you would like to share!

 

How can you help at home?

 

Reading books are changed once weekly. Your child will be given a reading book to take home for the week. These books are designed to develop different reading skills and will be given to your child with regards to the next steps in their reading development. You can read it together, talk about what is happening/what might happen next and you can take it out again to see if your child can remember what happens and sequence the events.

 

Reading

 

• Practise letter sounds and key words as often as possible. 
• Read a range of books - go to the library and let your child choose books that interest them.
• Talk about the stories that you/ your child read/s.
• Look out for the sounds and words that your child has been learning in books or in the environment.

 

Writing

 

• Let your child observe you writing for a range of purposes e,g shopping lists, postcards, letters, cards etc
• Give your child opportunities to write - let them write the shopping list!
• Encourage your child to form the letters correctly.

 

Number

 

• Talk about time - what time they get up, go to school etc.
• Give them the experience of money when out shopping.
• Look for numbers and shapes in the environment.