Reception Learning - Week 2

                                            

RECEPTION LEARNING - SPRING 2 WEEK 2

Key Dates & Information

Parents Meetings 28th & 29th March 2022

Last day of term - 1st April 2022
End of term (Easter break) - 4th to 18th April 2022
Bank holiday- 2nd May 2022- School closed
Polling day- 5th May 2022- School closed

Our Learning. 

We have thoroughly enjoyed this week in reception celebrating World Book Day. There have been lots of exciting events and activities happening across the week. 

Look out for World Book Day Blog!

 

Maths 

This week we have been exploring and deepening the children's understanding of numbers 9 and 10.  The children have been representing 9 and 10 in different ways. The children have had opportunities to arrange 9 or 10 items into smaller groups to help them to conceptually subitise these larger numbers and explore their composition. (Eg: I know it's 9 because I see 3, 3, and 3)

The children are familiar with using a five frame, this week they were introduced to a ten frame and know that when a ten frame is full there is 10. They have used ten frames to help them with this week's activity.  

Great work Reception!

       Aisosa: “5+5 makes 10"

Hayden: "8+2 is 10"

Zyana "five and five is ten"

Jimmy: "I did it, I made nine"

 

Key Vocabulary: Number, Count, Nine, Ten, subitise, group, arrange

How to support your child this week at home.

Make your own ten frame at home by taping it out on the carpet or floor.

Get your child to count out their toys. How many dolls? How many cars?

Use the ten frame to model addition and subtraction. 

Literacy

Supertato and the Evil Pea have continued to be the talk of the town! The children have really enjoyed this topic, and so this  week we listened to some other stories from the Supertato range of books.

To listen to the Supertato Veggies Assemble story with your child, click here.

Our focus in Literacy this week was to write a sentence about Supertato. The children are really working hard to use their 'Fred fingers' to help them spell out words.  To support your child at home with sentence writing and spelling, click here to see how to use Fred fingers.

Fatima- “Supertato the rescue”

Vrisha- “Supertato has super speed”

Jace: "Supertato is really really fast"

Zara: "The Evil pea is funny"

Loose Parts

Loose parts are open-ended materials such as boxes, crates, sheets, pipes, logs, buckets and blocks that children can adapt, move, design and transform in many different ways. They can be moved, combines, redesigned, lined up, taken apart and put back together in multiple ways. The more flexibility a material or space has, the more opportunities these variables have for children's creative experimentation.

Tommy- “look it’s a megladon”

Bernice- “arrrrrrrrr”

"When children interact with loose parts, they enter a world of 'what if' that promotes the type of thinking that leads to problem solving and theoretical reasoning. Loose parts enhance children's ability to think imaginatively and see solutions, and they bring a sense of adventure and excitement to children's play."

Dale and Beloglovsky, 2015