This week in Reception

This week has been another fun filled, immersive week of learning. The children came back to school eager to share their news of the half term holiday and ready for this half term’s new learning. It was lovely to see their beaming faces and  we are sure they have all grown at least an inch!

 

Our  new book is called “Commotion in the Ocean”  and for the next three weeks we will be focusing on identifying rhyming words in poems as well as writing our own poems. This week the children have enjoyed playing lots of matching games, interactive whiteboard games and rhyming bingo!

 

 

In maths, we learned to use new equipment to help us with our mastery of number. The children have done amazingly well experimenting and exploring using the rekenrek effectively. All the adults have been incredibly impressed by how sensible the class has been while using these very loud apparatus. 😉

How you can help at home:
The children were absolutely delighted to learn new phonic sounds this week as we spent last half term reviewing previously taught sounds. They have done incredibly well to be able to identify the new sounds in words around the classroom already. Please continue to practice their phonics sounds at home as this will further support their learning.
The sounds we have learnt this week are: ay in day / ou in out and ie- in cried.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
The Reception team