We have had another fun and eventful week in Reception full of learning opportunities! The weather has definitely started to turn in our favour and it has been magnificent to spend more time outside.
We started off our week by celebrating national recycling day where we learned about many different ways to look after our environment. The children had a great time learning about recycling and looking for the recycling symbol on packaging. We then practised sorting rubbish into the correct bins where we had to put recyclables in our brown bins, rubbish into black bins and garden or food waste into our green bins.
This week in English we started with a new topic and this time we are learning to recite a spring poem. We started by looking at the changes in the weather and what we might wear to school now. The children compared what they wore to school a month ago with what they are wearing now. We had a class discussion about what they might see, hear, feel and smell in spring. Next week the children will continue learning to recite our poem and will then have the opportunity to change it to make it their own.
In maths the children have been introduced to doubles, recognising the two equal parts which make a number. The children have enjoyed playing with dice and dominoes to see if they can spot doubles and have moved on to now being able to recognise doubles and the parts that make up the double.
How you can help at home:
As always the most important thing the children can do at home is to practice reading their phonics books. It is crucial they feel confident in recognising the targeted sounds in their book and for them to be able to blend unfamiliar words. In class we are using the tactic of reading each sentence three times to develop fluency and expression. During the first read of the sentence, the children sound out the words as necessary. During the second read, they work on building fluency and reducing sounding out. During the third read they try using the appropriate expression to reflect the meaning of the sentence. This may need modelling from you.
Play a game by rolling 2 dice, can they recognise when you have rolled a double?
