This Term's Topics
Once Upon a Time
Welcome back and Happy New Year, Reception!
During this year we will continue to become independent learners allowing us to access learning through a range of areas such as the role play, construction and baking. Children will have access to the outdoors and many opportunities to develop life-long skills through play, carpet and snack time. Our topic this half term is Once Upon a Time. We will cover traditional stories such as the Gingerbread Man and The Three Little Pigs.
We will be building on our number knowledge through learning about numbers 0-10 and 1 more and 1 less. This will be through a range of games and activities. We will also look at mass and capacity.
We will build on our writing skills by looking at expanding our writing, using our phonics knowledge to help our spellings and through reading a range of stories. In phonics we will start phase 3. The children will read with an adult at least once every week.
Our PE lessons will be every Wednesday morning. Children will bring their PE kits to school in September and leave them on their pegs. We will change in school for the lesson. This half term we will be work on agility, balance and coordination with lessons focusing on gymnastics as well as dance.
We will access the outdoors as much as possible with our reception and nursery yard being open every afternoon as well as forest schools with Mrs Frost. We ask that you send your child to school with appropriate clothing depending on the weather (coat if cold or rainy, hat / sun cream if sunny etc)
Class 2 Staff:
Teacher - Mr Johnston
Teacher - Mrs Frost (Wednesday)
STA - Miss Hope (Full time)
Snack:
All Reception children will have a daily snack, at our snack table. We ask for £4 per half term. Payments can be made via 'School Money.'
Class 2 Home Learning
Reading:
Every Friday, all children will have the opportunity to choose a library book from our school library to bring home for the week.
Children have Reading Records where you can record reading you do with your child. Please keep Reading Records in your child’s book bag.
Reading books will be sent home when your child is ready. Once your child has a reading book, these will be changed every week so please keep them in your child’s book bag, along with Reading Records so we can change your child’s book.
Our phonics this half term will be focusing on phase 3 sounds and tricky words. We will be having a push on reading and working on our segmenting and blending skills. If you would like to work on these with your child at home, the centre pages of their Reading Record has a phonics section.
If you have any questions, please speak to a member of the early years team.
Class 2 Weblinks
Oxford Owl Phonics Bloom Phonics PlayMusic Makers