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What are Reception up to?

What are Reception up to?

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Understanding the World This term our topic is 'animals'. We will be learning lots of different facts about animals, where they live and what they like to eat. We will also be looking at different plants and planting our own seed and watching it grow.

Phonics and Literacy

Please continue to read the books for pleasure with your child and fill out their reading diaries. Books will be changed every Wednesday.

We have been practising writing short consonant, vowel, consonant (CVC) words and have begun to put these into sentences EG ‘the cat on the log’, ‘the pig in the mud’, ‘I go on a bus’. We have also been learning lots of red words such as ‘the’ ‘I’ ‘was’, these are words that we cannot sound out and we just have to remember how to spell them.

Please continue to practise reading and writing words and simple sentences at home.

We have also been learning how to tell our own stories using our imagination.

Maths

The children have been working very hard on learning numbers up to 10. This includes counting objects up to 10, recognising numbers, putting them in the correct order and representing them in different ways. We have focussed on how the numbers are composed using addition and subtraction and representing this using the ‘part-part-whole’ method. They are even starting to recall some key number facts up to 10 (eg 5+5=10, 10 - 8 = 2, 3+7=10).

Please continue to support your child with their number work up to 10 including recognising and correctly forming the digit. We have introduced number lines and objects to help us and encourage the children to explain the reasoning behind their answers. This half term we will be continuing our work on numbers to 10 and recalling key number facts. We will also be focussing on repeating patterns by creating, continuing and describing a pattern.

We will also be covering 2D and 3D shapes; recognising them and describing their properties.

PE will continue to be every week on a Monday. Please ensure your child has their named PE kit in school. Keep encouraging your child to dress themselves as this will really help them become more independent.

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This term our topic is ‘Our community’, throughout the half-term we will we be learning about where we live, what local places we have in our community and all the people who help us such fire fighters, doctors, police officers, hairdressers etc. Please prepare your child by having some conversations around our community and about the people who can help us.

Phonics

Please read the books for pleasure with your child and fill out their reading diaries. You can also message on Seesaw to let us know how they got on.

We have started to write words using our phonic knowledge so your child may be able to read some words in the story books.

We have a local library in Kings Heath if you are looking for a wider selection. Book changing day is still every Wednesday.

Maths

Please continue to use the number formation rhymes at home to support your child to form and recognise numbers to 5. Repetition is key to remembering! We will be beginning to introduce numbers beyond 5, you could also discuss and explore these at home.

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This term our topic is Celebrations. We are learning about the different celebrations that take place across the year such as birthdays, Halloween, Bonfire Night, Christmas etc.

Reading

Each week we have a class story theme where we read the story and complete activities linked to the story throughout the week.

Please continue to enjoy reading the story books we send home with your child; these books will be changed every Wednesday. We have a local library in Kings Heath if you are looking for a wider selection of books to enjoy.

Phonics

In Phonics, we will be learning a new sound each day. Focussing on recognising, forming and sounding out the phoneme. We have also began reading and writing 3 sounds together to make a CVC word e.g. dog, log, sit. Please continue to revise the sound with you child at home using their Read Write Inc green sound booklet.

Maths

In Maths this term we are learning numbers up to 5. Each week we will introduce a new number, focussing on counting, forming and representing the number. Please continue to use the number formation rhymes at home to support your child to write and recognise numbers. We will begin to use language of one more (add) and one less (subtract. We will also support your child to recognise 2D shapes around the house and local environment, (square, rectangle, triangle, square).

PE will continue to be every week on a Monday. Please ensure your child has their named PE kit in school. Keep encouraging your child to dress themselves as this will really help them become more independent.

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English:

Over the next half term, your child will begin to learn a new letter sound each day, using the Read Write Inc scheme. Within this pack there will be a sound chart for you to use at home with your child. You could play some letter recognition games or initial sound games (for example, can you find the letter a in the supermarket? Or I spy something beginning with …?). Please ask us if we can help with anything.

Maths:

We will begin to teach the children numbers 0-10 this half term. The number rhymes have been included in this pack. Please practise these at home and involve numbers in your daily life (for example, counting fish fingers on your plate or shoes by the door).

PSHE:

We will be settling the children into their new classes and focusing on making friendships. We will be discussing what makes a good friend and how we can follow our school rule of 'be kind'.

Computing:

Once the children are settled, we will be start to explore different forms of technology. We will begin to practise basic mouse control skills on the computer and play some maths and English games on the computer.