Reception
Weekly Update Friday 15th March 2024
Summary of this week:
Science week has involved lots of fun activities including planting broad beans and cress, investigating what happens to fruit if we leave it, exploring and creating shadows, measuring time and looking for signs of spring. We have talked a lot about what it means to be a scientist, using all our senses to observe carefully and find things out. Hopefully we are inspiring future scientists! |
Our learning next week:
Maths: In Maths we will be continuing to explore the composition of numbers to seven.
Literacy: Our text this week is Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne and this will inspire our writing.
Phonics: We will practice reading and writing words using the phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs and learning to chunk to read and write longer words.
Vocabulary: Africa, country, passionfruit, guava, ostrich, antelope, number stories |
Homework:
Maths: Put up to seven objects in a line. Put a pencil between two of the objects and count the items either side. Those are the two numbers that together make the whole number.
Literacy: Talk about different countries that the children may have visited or where you may have family or friends living. Explore how they are different and the same.
Vocabulary: Have a go at a science experiment at home and try writing about what happened! |
Notices & Reminders:
Friday 23rd is World Number Day and we would love to celebrate it with the children. We thought it might be fun to wear a top in the colour of the children’s favourite Numberblock character and then do some maths with the children and their ‘numbers’. Hopefully this will be easy and not cause you any headaches – essentially nearly every colour has an associated Numberblock. If you’re not familiar with the colours of the Numberblock characters – ask your children! We’ll also out up a picture of the Numberblocks in our windows.
We will be welcoming volunteers to support us with our weekly swimming lessons next term and also our school trip to The Rural Life Museum. If you might be available to help on a Friday morning or on May 1st, please do consider applying for a DBS via the school website or weekly parent newsflash.
We would like to do some planting and gardening in our outdoor classroom in the week before Easter, to look after during the Summer Term. If anyone would like to donate soil for our tyres or a reasonably hardy perennial plant, we would appreciate it very much. Thank you!
We are looking forward to seeing many of you at our maths workshops next week. They will take place at 9am in the hall on the following mornings: Tuesday 20th – Red Class; Wednesday 21st – Yellow Class; Thursday 22nd – Orange Class. |
With best wishes, The Reception Team
Presentation Slides
2023 Induction Evening Presentation slides
Infant Reading Parent Workshop Presentation
Early Years Curriculum Parents Information Evening Slides
Curriculum Maps
Curriculum maps will be updated on a half-termly basis in 2023-24.
Autumn 1 2023-24 | Spring 1 2023-24 | Summer 1 2022-23 |
Autumn 2 2023-24 | Spring 2 2023-24 | Summer 2 2022-23 |
Curriculum Information
Please find below slides from the Parents Curriculum Presentation:
Early Years Curriculum Evening 2021 PRIME
Early Years Curriculum Evening 2021 SPECIFIC
Reception Home Learning
To contact the Reception Team, please use this email address: yearr@eastwick.thpt.org.uk.
Resources
Click here for online games and resources:
Maths
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/gingerbread-man-game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/ladybird-spots
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/shape-monsters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0&safe=active
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY&safe=active
Moving from Reception to Year 1