Reception Newsletter 28.9.15

Term: Autumn 1         

                  

The children have really enjoyed using our large outdoor area. As the weather is getting colder could the children please bring in a pair of wellies to stay in school and ensure they have warm, waterproof coats so they can go outside even if it raining.

            This week we will be focusing on the story of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Being encouraged to demonstrate friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Beginning to accept the needs of others, take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others.

Communication and language

• Supporting the children to use the past, present and future tense correctly.
• Encouraging children to question why things happen and give explanations.
• Listening to and joining in with the story of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. Discussing the characters and events in the story.

Physical Development

• Holding a pencil between thumb and two fingers moving away from a fist grip.
• Mr Portway our PE specialist teacher will be starting PE groups. The children will start to get changed for PE so will need a PE kit.

Literacy

• The children have been issued  with a reading book and reading record. Please encourage your child to talk about the pictures and make up their own stories. Every time you listen to your child read, please make a comment in their reading record- this may even be a bedtime story. It does not have to always be their school reading book.
• We will continue learn the initial phonics sounds in small groups this week. We will send the sounds home so you can see what the children have been learning in school. We will also be using Fred talk to support early reading skills ( saying the sounds in a word separately and asking the children to say the word back e.g. P-e-g is peg and c-a-t is cat.)

Mathematics

• In the playdough area we will be assessing the children's ability to recognise numbers and count objects accurately using candles, playdough and number cards.
• We will be continuing to introduce ten town our number formation scheme.
• During the second half of the week we will be teaching our maths in smaller groups to assess the children's understanding of number and ability to match numeral to quantity.

Understanding of the World

• Making porridge in small groups. The children will be encouraged to think about how the materials change during the process.

• We will be supporting the children to select and use simple maths games on the computers.
• We will be modelling how to use the 2 simple paint programme to draw pictures from our story of the week.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Introducing pastels; experimenting with ways of smudging the colours and creating their own pictures.

Messages

• Please make sure your child has a spare change of clothes in school just in case they have any little accidents. The spare change of clothes does not have to be school uniform.

• If you wish to contact a member of the EYFS staff please email them at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Thank you for your support.