Literacy

This term, Reception will be reading ‘The Colour Monster’ by Anna Llenas.

The colour monster is feeling very mixed up. He’s yellow, blue, red, black and green all at once. In the book his friend will help him to find out about his different feelings. 

The children will be listening to the story and making puppets to re-tell the story.

Maths

In Maths we will learn to recognise numbers to 5. We will practise saying numbers in order and learn to count five objects. You can help your child at home by practising counting everything you see! You can look for numbers in the environment such as on buses or doors. 

Phonics

In phonics we will be learning the sounds of the letters of the alphabet. We follow the Little Wandle phonics program which starts by introducing these six phonemes:

S   A   T   P   I   N

You can watch how to pronounce the phonemes on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZtjFIvA_fs

Topic

We will be drawing, painting and making pictures of The Colour Monster. We will be using different materials and talking about textures. We’ll be dancing to all kinds of music and using instruments to make happy and sad music. We will also be learning some new songs and nursery rhymes.

P.E

P.E will be every Wednesday. Please dress your child in a PE kit on this day.

PSHE

We will be talking about feelings such as happy, sad, angry and scared.

English

Reception will be reading ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson.

The witch has a cat and a very tall hat. But what happens when too many animals get on her broomstick and the broom snaps in half?

The children will be listening to the story, acting the story and using ‘Talk for Writing’ to re-tell and write the story.

Maths

We will continue to introduce numbers 1-5. The children will learn to recognise numerals and count sets of objects. They will find out about the composition of numbers up to five. They will also be solving number problems such as adding and taking away.

Phonics

In Reception we follow the Little Wandle phonics program. We teach the children the sounds of the letters of the alphabet. When the children know the sounds they are able to blend them together to read CVC words such as:

cat

dog 

sock

You can help your child at home by reading with them everyday. Please fill in the home reading record in the book bag so your child can win stickers and prizes.

Class Dojo

Class DoJo is our online journal for your child. You can look on your phone to see photos of the activities your child has been doing at school. You can also see the class stories to find out how to help your child at home.

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Topic

We’ll be talking about different festivals such as Hallowe’en, Bonfire Night, Divali and Christmas. We will be finding out that some people celebrate these festivals but other people don’t. We’ll find out that it’s fine to celebrate different things.

We hope the children will enjoy telling us about their special celebrations.

PSHE

Our class puppets will teach us about feelings such as worried or angry. We will learn how to calm down if we feel angry.

Literacy

During the next three weeks Reception will be reading stories about dragons. We will read ‘There is no dragon in this story’ by Lou Carter and Deborah Allwright. The dragon wants to be in the story but he bumps into other fairytale characters who tell him that they don’t need a dragon in their story!

We will also read ‘Zog’ by Julia Donaldson. Zog isn’t good at anything, so how will he rescue the princess?

Our English overview

Maths

In Maths we will learn to recognise numbers to 10. We will practise saying numbers in order and learn to count ten objects. You can help your child at home by practising counting ten things. You can look for numbers on buses, doors or signs and help your child to name them.

Our Maths Overview

Personal, Social & Emotional Development

In PSED we will be learning about all kinds of families. 

We will also talk about things we are good at.

PE

We will be using the apparatus and movement play resources to help the children develop.

PE will be every Wednesday. Please dress your child in a PE kit on this day.

Phonics Phase 3

In phonics we will be moving onto Phase 3 of Letters and Sounds. 

 j v x y z ai ee igh oa oo

More information can be found at www.gov.uk/government/publications/letters-and-sounds

Topics

We will be finding out about being healthy. We will do lots of exercise to make our hearts healthy. We will have a healthy picnic and taste some healthy fruit and vegetables. We will learn how to brush our teeth and all the children will be bringing a toothbrush home. We will also learn about other ways to stay safe.