Week beginning 11th March

  Week beginning 11th March

Don't the weeks just fly by! We have been practicing our 'hop hop hop' song for the Church service this week which the children have loved! When we had our class photo taken the photographers said "that was the best Reception class we have had for a long time" - what a lovely comment to hear! 

Next week the children will be greeted by Mrs Simpson as I will be with Class 4 before we leave for PGL. They will be having Mrs Simpson for the mornings, apart from Thursday where they will have Mrs Barnes all day (this is a nice transition for them to go up into Class 2 in September) and a mixture of Mrs Neal and Mrs Barnes for the afternoons. Mrs Aindow will be with the children all week as normal. I have told the children this information and they are very excited! 

This week we have been:

• reading longer words - sharp, harsh, shark, march, sheep, sheet, cheep, queen, teeth, chain, chart, tooth, short, torch, garden, singer, thinker, powder, corner, farmer, shorter, shower, power and torch. 
• We are still recapping our taught sounds and the children are doing well at remembering these, we are practicing using them when we are reading new words. 
• exploring ways of making 5 - 1+4 4+1 3+2 2+3 5+0 0+5
• counting beyond 10, making sure we are saying those tricky teen numbers properly!
• we have had some lovely mantle sessions of finding injured dinosaurs on our island and helping them recover. 

Phonics: 

We have now learnt all of the phase 2 and 3 sounds that the children will cover in Reception. We will now be beginning to use all of the taught sounds when reading words. Please keep practicing the sounds with your child at home to consolidate their learning.  

Please see the link below to hear how to say the sounds and the letter formations. 

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Please can you also practice the tricky words that the children have been taught so far, these are an important skills for them to have so they can access more books and use them in their writing. 

I	was
the	you
put	they
pull	my
full	by
push	all
and	are
her	sure
go	pure
no	he
to	we
into	me
she	be
of

Reception: how to help at home:

• writing numbers
• practice tricky words 
• counting objects and adding objects together
• reading their phonics and badger book

Nursery:

• in listening time this week we have been doing what is in the box looking at the sound k where Mrs Aindow has been describing the object to see if they can guess what it is. as well as exploring the new rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, using the words from the rhyme and clapping out the syllables, quiet and loud sounds from the rhyme. As well as recapping some of the sounds they have covered - s a t p i n m d g o c using the rhyme Bertha the Bus
• writing numbers 
• trying very hard with their letter formation, super work!

Here is a link to some of the nursery rhymes that they have been singing during listening time, please feel free to practice these at home https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Nursery: how you can help at home: 

• writing their name, on lines would be great
• touch counting objects
• writing numbers 
• playing games to build concentration 
• drawing different things - like people, the sun, rainbows etc. 

Reminders:

• PE kit is needed every Tuesday
• Please try and arrive to school for 8:45 each morning the children are practicing their writing which is really beneficial 
• water bottles 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will put up a blog on the last week to catch up before the end of the term. 

Miss Lewis