This week in the classroom
Friday 11th July
Reception class have had a great week of learning, play and exploration.
In phonics sessions, we continue to focus on all phase 3 sounds and phase 4 words and words with 'est' ending, with greater emphasis on blending to read them. We have also been recapping and remembering all th Reception tricky words. Children continue to apply their phonics knowledge in group reading sessions and write daily in their phonics books. You can use the information and videos here to help practise sounds at home, before the children move to Year 1.
In English, we have continued to focus on the text 'Someone Swallowed Stanley', which adds to our theme of Journeys with a water element. Children have been ordeering the story and making zig zag books. You can hear the story here. Children have also read with Mr Rogers in small groups, and chosen new books to take home. Please send books and book bags every day, we try and read with the children as much as we can. Also, we will need all books returning before the Summer break, so please check around the house for any that belong to school!
In Maths, children have been focused on counting and understanding number; they have practised different ways to make 5 and 10, using beads, counters, die frames, tens frames and number plates. We continue to practise counting to larger numbers also, and finding 1 more and 1 less than a given number.
Children have enjoyed a number of other activities this week including under the sea collage and making their own kites, like the one in our class story. Children flew their kites on the field!
It's been a lovely week.
Friday 4th July
Reception class have had a super week of learning, play and exploration.
In phonics sessions, we continue to focus on all phase 3 sounds and phase 4 words and words with 'est' ending, with greater emphasis on blending to read them. We have also been recapping and remembering all th Reception tricky words. Children continue to apply their phonics knowledge in group reading sessions and write daily in their phonics books. You can use the information and videos here to help practise sounds at home, before the children move to Year 1.
In English, we have continued to focus on the text 'Someone Swallowed Stanley', which adds to our theme of Journeys with a water element. Children have been constructing sentences describing sea creatures from the story. You can hear the story here. Children have also read with Mr Rogers in small groups, and chosen new books to take home. Please send books and book bags every day, we try and read with the children as much as we can. Also, we will need all books returning before the Summer break, so please check around the house for any that belong to school!
In Maths, children have been focused on understanding number; they have practised different ways to make 5 and 10, using beads, counters, die frames, tens frames and number plates. We continue to practise counting to larger numbers also, and finding 1 more and 1 less than a given number.
Children have enjoyed a number of other activities this week. They have developed their crafting skills through painting, jelly fish collages, modelling with dough, printing under the sea pictures and more. Some children built amazing towers blocks, crate vehicles and outdoor dens. Children explored which cars travelled fastest down different ramps, and we also talked about any questions or worries the children may have about changing classes and moving to Year 1.
It's been a lovely week.