Reception

Welcome to Reception

On this page you will find lots of information about our learning, dates for diaries, useful websites and resources.

Below is a summary of the learning which has taken place in the classroom this week.

This week the children have been learning about their five main senses. The children have been taking part in activities to do with their senses. They have been using their sense of smell to guess what is in the smelling pot. They have been trying to complete some activities with their eyes closed, so they could see what it would be like not to have their sense of sight. The children have been trying to guess what is in a covered bowl by using their sense of touch and describing what they can feel. We have been playing some listening games to explore our sense of hearing. We have also made different flavoured buns and the children have been using their sense of taste to work out the flavour.

The children enjoyed a music workshop by Rock Steady.

Learnology

There are five learning heroes; Reggie Relationship, Rosie Ready, Richard Resilient, Ronnie Resourceful and Rachel Reflective. They all have their own special learning powers, which the children will be learning all about.

Our Learning Hero for this half term is Reggie Relationships. His learning powers include being a good listener and thinking about what is being said, being a good team player, being an independent learner and understanding other people’s feelings.

Our Learning Hero for this week is Felix. Well done.

Circle Time

The children have been talking about what they did at the weekend.

Phonics

The children have been revisiting the previous learned sounds – s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r and h.

The children have been learning the letter names and sounds for b (bird), f (fish) and ff (coffee). They have been thinking of words that begin with the initial b and f sounds. They have then been matching objects and pictures to the initial sound and grapheme (the written representation of the sound).

The children have been blending and reading cvc words (e.g. sat) containing new and previous learnt sounds. The children have been writing cvc words.

Reading and writing the common exception words (tricky words – these are words that the children can not sound out as they do not have the phonic or spelling knowledge yet. ) I, the, to, go, no and into.

Handwriting

The children have been learning how to form the pre cursive script for the letter b and f.

Shared Reading

The children have been introduced to the Oxford Tree Reading characters Biff, Chip and Kipper. They have been listening to stories to get to know more about these characters.

Sharing the Big Book – The New Trainers (a story about Chip)

Reading the comic –

Listening to non-fiction books about their senses.

Mathematics

Completing our daily attendance chart, calendar and weather diary.

Counting to 30 and back from 10.

This week the children have continued learning about number three. They have been taking away from 3, using the vocabulary take away, minus, subtract and equals. We have revisited our learning about 2D (flat) shapes with a focus on the triangle. The children have been describing a triangle by its properties.

Playing games.

Music, songs and rhymes

Singing the ‘Hello Reception, how are you?’ song.

The children have been learning some of the Nativity songs.

Provision

The children have access to a wide range of provision (indoors and outdoors) throughout the day where they can develop their own learning and interests, problem solve and work together.

Dates for diaries

Stay and Play dates – 9am to 10:00 am

Monday 25th November

Thursday 12th December

Friday 17th January

Tuesday 28th January

Thursday 13th February

Monday 3rd March

Friday 21st March

Thursday 1st May

Tuesday 13th May

Monday 9th June