A sunny week in Reception, where our lovely garden is showing signs of Spring!
Phonics - we have looked at longer words this week with two syllables and introduced words that we can 'chunk' when reading. This means reading the first syllable of the word, then the next, then blending together. Some examples include - lemon, picnic, carpet, pocket. Read as lem/on, pic/nic, car/pet, pock/et.
We have also introduced and read compound words. Compound words are two root words that make up each compound words. some examples include bedroom, carpark, farmyard, rooftop.
Maths -
This week, the children have used practical contexts to sort objects according to different criteria. They have been encouraged to notice different attributes in groups of objects – such as colour, size or function – and to describe what they notice. Beginning with adult-led sorting activities and games of ‘How am I sorting?’, the children have gone on to develop their own criteria for sorting. Sorting and classifying are important early years’ skills that encourage children to identify similarities and differences. These skills also support problem solving and the development of data analysis.
Alongside this, we have continued to practise recalling the composition of numbers as doubles. Then, towards the end of the week, the children have applied their sorting skills to numbers to investigate ways to sort the Numberblocks. The children have also used their previous experience of investigating doubles to begin to practically explore even and odd numbers. Within the context of building Numberblocks characters, they have investigated when a number can be composed of 2 equal parts.
Activities for home -
Provide your child with baskets containing a variety of items to sort (e.g. buttons, shape tiles, comparison toys, adults’ and children’s socks or gloves, etc). Can you sort these items for me? Tell me why you are sorting them like that. What’s the same here? What’s different? Could you sort them in a different way?
Play a game of ‘Spot the funny one’. Create a set of objects with a matching criterion (e.g. colour, size, function) and include 1 item that doesn’t match the other objects in the set. Which object is ‘the funny one’? Why?
Topic -
We have started our dinosaur art project this week, in preparation for our assembly at the end of the month. We enjoyed reading a dinosaur non-fiction book to learn a range of dinosaur facts, before adding dinosaurs to our timeline. We have then used water colours for the first step of our project to paint the background of our dinosaur picture, which is what we'll be showing in our assembly.
ELGs
Expressive Arts & Design (EAD)
Creating with Materials:
Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.
Make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories.
Being Imaginative and Expressive:
Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher.
Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs.
Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate – try to move in time with music.
World Book Day -
The children looked amazing! Class photos will be sent out on Tapestry soon.
We loved reading The Black Book of Colours which is a tactile children's story that allows children to explore colours through taste, touch, hearing and smell. The book includes braille, which helps readers to imagine the world as experienced by someone who is blind. We looked at the braille alphabet and the children had a go at making their names using stickers, following the letter arrangements.
Assembly lines have been sent home in bookbags - please practice these at home with big (not shouting!) voices! Our year group assembly is March 23rd at 2:30.