Weekly Reception Newsletter 15.12.14

Term: Autumn 2
Date: 15.12.14

 

We will be concluding our ‘Colour and Pattern’ topic this week. We will be carrying out discussions with the children this week to determine the themes for the role play and small world, as we endeavour to teach skills through the children’s interests. Furthermore our topic for next term will be ‘Superheroes’.

 

The children will be completing various Christmas art activities this week and towards the end of the week we will begin to send home the cards, decorations and calendars.

Your child will be taking part in the following activities. (Activities are subject to change, depending on the children’s interests):

 Personal, Social and Emotional

• Children are aware of the boundaries and behavioural expectations.
• To develop an understanding that their own actions can affect others.
• Can usually adapt behaviour to different events, social situations and changes in routine.

Communication and Language

• Sharing Christmas stories.
• Beginning to understand 'why' and 'how' questions.
• Uses a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played).

Physical Development

• Developing fine motor skills through tracing activities, using tweezers and manipulating dough.
• The children will be continuing to go out in small groups with Mr Portway.
• Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp.
• Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
• Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.

Literacy

• We will be continuing with our daily Read, Write Inc. groups.
• Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint.
• Links sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
• Begins to break the flow of speech into words.
• Hears and says the initial sounds in words.
• Please ensure your child’s reading book is in school on their reading day.

Mathematics

• Recognises some numerals of personal significance.
• Uses language of ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ to compare two sets of objects.
• Find one more or less from a group of up to 5 objects, then 10.

Understanding of the World

• Talks about why things happen and how things work.
• Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Explores what happens when they mix colours.
• Explores colour and how colours can be changed

Learning Challenge

Each half term we will setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.

The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class.
Poem/Song to learn: 5 Little Monkey’s jumping on a bed

Five little monkeys jumping on the bed.
One fell off and bumped his head.
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"
(repeat counting down to 0)

Composer/Piece of music: Vivaldi’s- Four Seasons

Person: Mr Maker

Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
1.     Learn it off by heart 2.     Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme 3.     Find out about monkeys 4.     Write the calculations down e.g. there were 5 monkeys and then one fell off so how many now? 5-1=4	Listen to the piece of music Create some movements to the music Draw an illustration to represent their feelings Able to name the piece of music when they hear it	1. Draw a portrait of the person. 2. Find out facts about the person 3. Watch the person in action 4. Make something that the person has made

 Messages

Thank you to all of you for your support with the Nativity costumes. It was great to see so many of you in the audience.

We will be holding a Christmas party for the children on Thursday. You do not have to do anything different. We will provide the food and music. They need to come in their uniform and they will wear a Christmas hat that they have made in school.

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year and we look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday 5th January 2015.

Thank you for your constant support.