Noticeboard
- Please alert your child’s class teacher if your child finishes one side of their bookmark so that they can receive their first certificate in assembly. You can find information on our reading incentive by clicking here.
- Please make sure your child has a coat in school every day. We will go outside even when it is cold and raining.
- Children need to bring their book bag into school every day. If they do not have it on a Monday, they will not be able to have a new reading book. Please make sure the reading books come into school each day with your child.
- Please do not allow your child to play with the resources that are on the Reception patio in the morning. These have been carefully positioned and are there to support your child’s learning during the school day.
Celebrations
Of course, the highlight of our week was going to Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm. The children enjoyed looking at the African animals we learnt about in Term 4. They loved meeting two of them too! Alongside this, the children have show amazing stickability tortoise behaviours when they have been using shapes to make pictures and tangrams. They have needed to use problem solving to rotate shapes – you can see some amazing examples below.
Star of the Week
Daisy – Eira and Oliver
Buttercup – Flynn
Tapestry – Observation request
This week, we are focusing on Understanding of the World. We would like you to go on a minibeast hunt and write a list or draw pictures of the animals you see.
You can also send us any moments that you feel are significant in your child’s learning or want to share with your child’s class teachers.
Click the links below to find out how to add observations from different devices.
This week’s learning
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
This term we will be thinking about changing me. We will be naming body parts this week, inside and outside the body.
Communication and Language
Book of the week: Mini Beasties by Michael Rosen
We will be looking at the poetry and rhyming words in this book.
We always encourage the children to engage in story times and non-fiction books in these ways:
Listen to and talk about stories to build familiarity and understanding.
Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what is being said.
Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences.
Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives.
Describe some events in detail.
Word of the Week: minibeast
Physical Development
We are going to be practising sports day games outside.
Dance this week focusing on a digging for worms story movement.
Literacy
This week in Phonics, we will be following the Phase 4 Mastery lessons.
We will practising reading and writing adjacent consonants: spr, str, scr, thr, shr, nch
We will revisit the common exception words: when, out, what
We will practise blending phonemes to read, and segmenting words to spell them using the phonemes and graphemes we have learned so far.
Writing: We will be using our learning in phonics to write dictated sentences.
Maths
This week, we will be learning about shapes. The children will compose and decompose shapes 2D. They will also be looking at 3D shapes to find 2D shapes within them (faces).
Understanding the World
The class is going to have ladybirds to look after and observe this term and we will be collating a class book of our observations.
We will be also going on a summer welly walk to look for signs of the changing season.
Religion and Worldviews
We continue to explore our Big question for terms 5+6: How should we live our lives?
This week, we will learn about who is the important guide for Christians – Jesus.
Expressive Arts and Design
We will be on lesson 4 of our calypso music topic, learning how to identify different un-tuned percussion instruments by their sounds as well as being able to name a selection of un-tuned percussion instruments and be able to play them in an appropriate way.