Welcome to Reception Green!
Welcome back! I hope you have all had a refreshing half term break. I can’t believe it’s our last seven weeks together. Where has the time gone? We have had a great year in Reception Green. We have learnt lots of new things and had many exciting times! I would like to say thank you for all your support throughout this year.
OUR TOPIC
Our final topic in Reception is ‘Holidays’. We will be starting our topic off by discussing our own experiences of holidays and looking at pictures and memorabilia from holidays we have been on. We can’t wait for our role-play area to turn into the ‘seaside’. There will be a fish and chip shop and a punch and Judy show! We will also be building sandcastles in the sand and we will be making ice –creams at the play-dough ice cream parlour. What is your favourite ice-cream flavour? Outdoors there will be a beach bar and we will be exploring ice cube boats in the water. We will then move onto look at the seaside in the past. We will look at the clothes people wore when then went to the seaside in the past , how they got there and we will also discuss the activities people used to do at the seaside a long time ago. From this, we will then compare our locality to a contrasting place such as Spain. We will have a Spanish restaurant and we will be looking at the Spanish culture including music and dancing. We will also be learning some of the Spanish language!
MATHEMATICS
In our maths lessons we will be focusing on recognising numerals to 20 and matching these to their values, counting up to 20 objects, ordering numbers, writing number lines, continuing to develop using vocabulary involved in addition and subtraction and practically working out addition and subtraction calculations and even using a number line to help us work out these calculations.
LITERACY
We will be continuing to have our discrete phonics session every day. We will have two guided reading sessions each week, were we read a book in a small group and learn lots of important new reading skills. This half term we are continuing to develop our independent writing skills so we are ready for year 1. We will be focusing on applying our phonics knowledge to help us spell and using full stops, capital letters, finger spaces and WOW words in our sentences. We will be writing our own seaside stories and writing postcards from our holidays. During our handwriting sessions we will be continuing to develop our cursive letter formation.
OUTDOOR PROVISION
We all have daily access to outdoor play. It is essential that you have a coat and waterproof shoes in school at all times. You might want to put some waterproof shoes in a plastic bag with your child’s name on and they can hang them on their peg (please make sure your child’s name is also on the shoes). This means we can enjoy playing outside whatever the weather!
PE DAYS
ReceptionGreen have PE in the hall on Wednesdays. Please ensure your child’s indoor PE kit is always in school. I can’t stress enough how important it is that all your child’s items of clothing, including school uniform and PE kit, have their name in.
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Homework will be given out on a Friday to be returned the following Wednesday.
Please can you ensure that your child brings their reading book and diary to school each day. Their reading books will be changed (if needed) at least once a week. Your child’s school reading book is important, however, this isn’t the only book that they can read (or have a go at reading). Please encourage your child to read other books at home or in the library. If you wish to do so you can record the other books they are reading into their school reading dairy too.
We have library every THURSDAY. On library day your child we have the opportunity to select a new library book to take home. Please ensure your child has their library book in school on a Thursday so they don’t miss out on changing their book.
If you have any questions or concerns do not hesitate to ask me. Please check the notice board outside for any important messages.
Thank you for yoursupport.
Miss Sutcliffe.