Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely Easter break! The children have settled back in beautifully, showing excellent learning behaviours as we head into our final term in Reception.

 

Phonics - 

Grapheme recap - oo (hook), ai, or, ur, ow.

Tricky words - recap of all tricky words.

Independent writing - book, rain, fork, fur, cow.

 

Maths -

This week, the children have reviewed the composition of the numbers 6 to 9 using the ‘5 and a bit’ structure, and then begin to explore how 10 can be composed. The children have also developed a sense of the ‘ten-ness of 10’ by making their own collections of 10 objects. 

When exploring how 10 can be composed of 2 parts, the focus is on developing the children’s ability to subitise the parts in structured arrangements. A key representation to support this will be the double dice frame, which is allowing them to build on their experiences from previous weeks. The children have been encouraged to recognise a larger part of 10 when it is presented in the ‘5 and a bit’ structure, and then subitise the smaller part. They have also been encouraged to see how finger patterns can be used to represent 2 parts of 10, using the ‘fingers up and fingers down’ approach that was used when exploring the composition of 5. 

Activities for home -

Play a barrier game. Say I’ve got 10 counters altogether. I’m going to hide some of them under this cloth. How many can you see here? How many are hidden under the cloth? Are there still 10 counters altogether? 

Make different arrangements with 10 small objects (e.g. gems, blocks, pine cones, shells, etc.). What do you notice about your arrangement? What groups can you see? 

 

Topic -

We've started our topic of 'what grows around us?' this week by exploring and drawing the seed cycle. Using the story A Seed in Need, we explored the four stages of a seed and what they need to grow. We also looked at real seeds and enjoyed thinking about what plants they will turn into. 

Thank you for your seed donations, we are busy using them to enhance our provision and planting them in the garden.