Reception Newsletter 4.1.15

Term:  Spring 1                        Date 4.1.15

Happy New Year and welcome back! We hope you all enjoyed the festive celebrations and are looking forward to the term ahead. This term our topic is going to be ‘Superheroes’.
Each week we will be looking at a different theme. This week we are focusing on the story 'Superworm' by Julia Donaldson. 

Personal, Social and Emotional

•  Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say.
•  Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.
• Through our adult led activities this week we will be supporting the children to share their ideas and thoughts in small groups. They will need to listen to other children's ideas and respond with their own comments. This will also be encouraged in the children's play.

 Communication and Language

• Children  use complex sentences to link their thoughts.. e.g. He is sad because he fell over. 
• Children will be encouraged to extend their vocabulary when observing the worms and creatures. They will be encouraged to explore the meaning of new words. 

Literacy

The children have been assessed again for RWI and they are making good progress. We will be focusing on ensuring all children can orally blend e.g. when they hear c-a-t know that is it cat. The children also need to be able to decode 'alien' or 'nonsense' words such as z-o-p this is to ensure they can use their phonic knowledge to decode any word they come across in their reading.  We will send out reading words every Friday to support this. 

• Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together.
• Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence. 
• Linking with our story of the week the children will have the opportunity to;
• Write potions for the Wizard in the story.
• Think of describing words linked to the character in the story.
• Help make Wanted Posters to find the missing Superworm character. 

 Physical Development:

• Children will be developing their balancing skills using climbing equipment in the hall.
• Children will be learning to jump safely from equipment and land with two feet. 

 Mathematics

• Beginning to use the vocabulary involved in subtraction. 
• Beginning to find one less/ more than numbers to 10. 

Understanding of the World

• Show care and concern for living things and the environment. The children will be helping to build a Wormery and observing worms and insects this week. They will be looking closely at similarities and differences and will be encouraged to comment and answer questions.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect.
• Selects tools and techniques needed to shape, assemble and join materials they are using. 

  Messages.

There are no after school clubs this week. 

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Thank you for your continued support.