Reception Learning - Summer 1 - Week 1

                                          

RECEPTION LEARNING - SUMMER 1 WEEK 1

Key Dates & Information

Bank holiday- Monday 2nd May 2022- School closed
Polling day- Thursday 5th May 2022- School closed

Eid Day Celebrations -Friday 6th May 2022- Wear bright colours to school

Maths 

In maths, the children have been exploring number bonds to twenty. They have been using the Numicon resources and the part-whole model to explore the different ways to to make ten and challenging themselves to find ways to make twenty. 

Key Vocabulary: Number bond, add, altogether, equal, more than, less than.

Livai- “7 is my part, 3 is my other part, 10 is my whole” 

Callie-  “2 is my part, 8 is my other part, 12 is my whole” 

Esmee: "Ten and zero makes ten and also seven and three makes ten"

Joshua: "Eight and two makes ten"

Araoluwa: "six and four makes ten"

Finley: I think seven and three makes ten! Hmmm... let me check..... yes it does"

Literacy

This week, we have started the summer term with a new topic book;  Jasper's Beanstalk.  This is a story about a cat called Jasper, who finds and plants a bean. He waters it, rakes and sows it, but it just doesn't seem to want to grow...   after sometime the bean begins to grow and grow and grow into a giant beanstalk. 

This story helps children to understand sequences, we see Jaspers follow a sequence of steps when planting his bean. The children will be planting their own beans next week as part of this topic and so as part of their literacy task the children were asked to sequence and write about the steps they will take when they come to plant their bean. 

Key Vocabulary: bean, plant, soil, roots, nutrients, rake, dig, light, beanstalk.

Zofia: "It grew big... to a big beanstalk"

Emma: "First, he found a bean"

Ameera- ” You put the bean in the soil first” 

Mavis- ” You have to put water on the bean to grow”

Today in school, we celebrated St George's day. The children watch a video and found out more about St George's Day and why we celebrate it. To mark the special day, they made some England Flags.