Reception Newsletter 22.09.14

Reception Newsletter

 

Term: Autumn 1                       

Date: 22.09.14

 

This week is the children’s first full week in Reception. Doors open from 8.30 in the morning and the school day ends at 3.05pm.

This term we are focussing on work around ourselves, our families and our friends. We will be basing our learning around the book, ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’.

 

Your child will be taking part in the following activities and routines:

 Personal, Social and Emotional

• Being encouraged to demonstrate friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Responding to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object.
• Beginning to accept the needs of others, take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others.

Communication and Language

• Listening to the story, ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’ and recalling events.
• Being detectives to ask questions and solve clues – Who broke into the 3 Bears house?

Physical Development

• Making bears out of play dough, developing fine manipulative skills.
• Hall session: The children will begin to go out in small groups to work with our Sports Coach, Mr Clark. Please bring in PE kits as soon as possible.

Literacy

• We will be continuing our daily phonics sessions, learning set 1 letters – t, i, n, p, g. We will be sending home a daily practise sheet for you to complete with your child.
• 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 be their school reading book. Please ensure your child has their reading book in school on their reading day.

Mathematics

• Continuing Ten Town – our number formation scheme. Learning to form numbers
• Reading the story of The 3 Bears – children to sort compare bears and teddy bears into groups using size.
• Estimating the number of bears in a group and then check by counting them.

Understanding of the World

• Using the paint programme on the computer to paint pictures of bears.
• Making porridge – discussing the changes that occur when we use heat.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Home Corner – The 3 bears, using different sized cups, spoons, bowls etc….
• Role play – A Police Station, to solve the crime – Who ate all the porridge and broke baby bear’s chair?
• Making masks to support their role play

Messages

• The children may bring in something related to our stories for Show and Tell on Friday.
• 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.
• We regularly update our EYFS blog. Please like our Broadford Primary Facebook page every time you see an EYFS blog. Feel free to make a comment on the children’s experiences.
• A reminder that the school will be closed on Friday 26th September for a staff INSET day.

Thank you for your support.