Reception Learning - Week 4

   

RECEPTION LEARNING - WEEK 4 AUTUMN 2

Key Information

• The Reception Team would welcome any donations of Christmas decorations to help us decorate our classrooms for the children.
• Christmas Jumper Day will be held on Friday 10th December - Children can come to school in their Christmas Jumper or Festive wear.
• The Reception Christmas Concert will be on Thursday 9th December. Please fill in the slip from the letter sent home to claim your 2 tickets.
• Lapland Day ( a fun day full of Christmas crafts) will be on Tuesday 14th December.

Maths 

This week, the children have been talking about night and day and ordering key events in their daily routine. They have been everyday language related to time to describe when events happen.  The children have been ordering their daily morning and evening route using action cards.    We made a whole class visual timetable to order the events of our school day. We have also explored time durations: exploring how long the school day is, how long lunch time is? how many sleeps til Christmas?

How to support your child this week at home.

 Make a countdown calendar with your child... count the number of days or sleeps until a special event. 

Sing songs at home to sequence the days of the weeks.  Which days do we come to school and which days do we stay at home. 

Days of the week song

Label two areas in a room daytime and night time. Call out an activity and ask your child to run to the day time or night area. For example, we put on our pyjamas (night time), stars appear (night time), eat breakfast (day time), birds sing (day time) foxes come out (night time).

Encourage your child to suggest some of their own day and night activities.

Key Vocabulary: day, night, boring, afternoon, before, after, today, tomorrow.

                               Munsha “My mummy helps me brush my teeth before I go to sleep” 

                                                              

                                         

Anaelle: I put my Pyjamas on the brush my teeth then go to bed"

Literacy

In literacy this week we have been exploring the Great Fire of London. We have explored this topic through the use of our sense. Thinking about the sounds, smells and how it would have back on that historic day.  The children have worked really hard to sound out the sentences using their 'Fred Fingers'.

Find out more here: The Great Fire of London

To support out children's language development  we learn songs linked to our topic. This week we learnt London's Burning. Learning songs and Nursery Rhymes can introuduce children to new vocabularly, rhyme, phonemes, word patterns, and sequence. Through repetition, children gain familiarity with these elements of language and begin to apply the words and phrases to daily conversation.

Key Vocabulary: Great Fire of London, Samuel Pepys, Pudding Lane, Pop, Bang, fFames, Red, Fire, Hot.

Art

This week's art was linked to the Great Fire of London . The children took part in lots of creative tasks using a range of materials and refining a variety of artistic effects.  We used forks this week to create flames and add texture to our fire pictures.  We used scissors to cut flame shapes out of crepe and tissue paper. We made our our Tudor Styles Houses using white and black paper and then drew on the windows. 

Key Vocabulary: scrunch, texture, scratch, drag, red, orange, yellow.

Reading Area

Reading is so important. Children make sense of the world around them through stories. Creative storytelling involves children making up their own stories based on their interests, experiences and imagination. Our classroom reading areas, offer a range of fiction and non fiction books, story puppets and props to help the children's creative storytelling which helps them develop a love of stories and reading.  

As adults, we know how important reading is, but developing a love of reading in children from an early age will prove so useful in their later life; in fact, enjoying books and reading stories from a very early age is crucial in the development of a child. Not only does it help with their ability to understand words, but it encourages them to begin to and develop their imagination – to see things and imagine things all by themselves – and to develop their speech, it improves concentration and introduces children to new concepts and the world around them.

At Broadford we encourage a love of reading through our 105 Books to read before you leave Broadford challenge.  In Reception children are encouraged to read the 15 books with their parent and carers.  For every five books they read from the list they receive a certificate.  If you would like to find out more about the 105 Books challenge or would like to get a copy of the reading tracker, speak to your child's class teacher.