Reception
What do we learn in Reception?
Reception: Autumn A - The Colour Monster
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’ll be learning the sounds of the letters of the alphabet. We follow the Letters and Sounds program which starts by introducing these six phonemes:
S A T P I N
Government guidance on Letters and Sounds
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.
Reception: Autumn B - Room on the Broom
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 also solve number problems such as adding and taking away.
Due to the COVID19 pandemic last year, we’ve created a whole-school maths plan so children can recap and learn the missed topics along side their current year group’s learning.
Phonics
In phonics we will be learning the sounds of the letters of the alphabet. We follow the Letters and Sounds program which continues by introducing these phonemes:
CK E U B F FF L SS
Please watch the daily phonics lesson on Tapestry to help your child to remember the sounds we have been learning.
Tapestry
Tapestry is our online learning journal for your child. You can look on your phone to see photos of the activities your child has been doing at school. Your child can also watch phonics lessons, stories and maths sessions.
It’s really important to have a Tapestry account as the lessons will help you if your family has to self isolate.
Please speak to us if you need help to subscribe to your account. Thank You!
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.
Reception: Spring A - Once Upon A Time
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?
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.
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.