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Reception
It is our final half term in Reception! We are finishing our Space topic with a visit to the Supermarket on Mars. Then it is time to find out about William Shakespeare and his play 'The Tempest'. We will finish our first year of school by thinking about Stratford - close to home - and Spain - far from home!|
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Week 1 Supermarket on Mars w/b June 6 |
Revise all phonics learned so far Phase 3 and 4 phonics assessments |
Revisit phase 3 tricky words for spelling |
Planning and recording our trip to the Supermarket on Mars |
Money Counting in 10s Problem solving |
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Weeks 2 and 3 The Tempest June 12/19
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: phase 3 and 4 revision: oa/ow combined with consonant |
plus revisit tricky words all / are
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Learning the story of The Tempest Making magic spells for Prospero’s book Talking about what we have liked about Reception, for our reports
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Use Beebot to explore a desert island; think about directional language, estimation of distance PLUS ICT
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phase 3 and 4 revision: ar/er combined with consonant clusters |
revisit tricky words said / so / have |
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phase 3 and 4 revision |
tricky word focus: like, little, some. come. |
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Weeks 4 and 5: Stratford and the river June 26/July 3
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Read and write CCVC and CVCC words
Revise Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs |
Tricky word focus: were there |
What do we know about Stratford/ Where did we go on our trip? |
Number bonds to 10/20 – what if the ferry only took 10 /20 children etc.
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Tricky word focus: what when |
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Week 6: Spain and holidays
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Revise all phonics learned so far
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Review the year; write a guide for the new children visiting |
Subtraction related to eating food! |
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Week 7: Transition to a new class! |
Prepare for and discuss transition visits to see our new teachers |
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In our Maths activities during the weeks of 15th and 22nd May:
We have been:
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Partitioning sets into equal parts
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Talking about sharing and dividing
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Using the terms half and double
Home activity: Fair plates
During the week, use meal times to talk about sharing. Can your child take 12 carrot sticks or grapes and put them on four plates so that each plate has the same number? If you cut a pizza into 8 slices, how many slices will each person get? What if somebody else joins you – can your child redistribute the food so that everybody gets the same? Encourage lots of discussion about sharing and dividing. Extend this activity by making the challenges more formal. Cut an apple into 12 slices and ask your child to divide them between six plates; then four; then three; then two. Ask them to explain their thinking as they redistribute the slices. Eat two slices. Repeat the challenge! Can your child explain what has changed? How can they solve the problem of ‘left over’ slices?
Reception are blasting off into Space in the Summer Term!
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Space Weeks 1, 2 and 3:
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Phase 3 phonics assessments
Begin to revise phase 3 sounds: ur, er, air, ar |
Revise reading: all Phase 3 tricky words |
Cold task: write/scribe what we know about space Find websites about space Read non-fiction books about space Make a list of what you need in space Write Space Facts about one planet for display board |
Counting backwards from 20; saying one more or one less to 20; doing practical subtraction problems to 20 Ext: use knowledge of counting in 2s and 5s to say 2 less/5 less |
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Spelling: begin spelling books (CVC words plus phase 2 tricky words) |
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Alien landing! Weeks 4 and 5 |
Read and write CVCC words like tent/camp/chest Read and write CCVC words like stop/crab/sweet
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Phase 4 Revision: read said and so; spell he, she, we, me, be read have, like, some, come; spell was, you Read do, when, out, what; spell my, her |
Make a plasticine alien and label/describe it |
2D and 3D shapes used to make alien Ext: Measuring and comparing aliens – using standard and non-standard measures: weight, height, width |
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In our Maths Lessons week beginning 13th March. . .
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Comparing the capacity of two containers
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beginning to understand the vocabulary of capacity
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exploring the vocabulary of height and length
Home activity: How many cups?
You will need: a jug, several similar cups, water
Outside, in the bath, or near the kitchen sink, let your child fill a jug with water and estimate how many cups they could fill from the jug. Ask your child to set out the estimated number of cups and fill them carefully with water from the jug. How many cups have you filled? Now challenge your child to only half fill the jug. How many cups will the jug fill now? Reverse the activity: how many cups of water to half fill the jug? How many to fill it? What if the cups are only half full? Encourage lots of conversation about capacity.
In our maths lessons during the week beginning 7th March:
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Sorting 3D shapes
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Recognising and naming a cube and cuboid
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Beginning to recognise a cone, a pyramid and a cylinder
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Using mathematical language to describe 3D shapes
Home activity: Shape hunt
You need: paper and pen
Help your child write the names of the different 3D shapes in a list on the paper. Now go around the house and see if you can find items which match the shapes. Look at boxes and tins in the cupboard, blocks and pens, books and small appliances. Each time your child identifies a shape, they can put a tick next to the name. Which shape is most common in your house?
Here is a taster of our plans for the rest of the half term. Please support your child with by reading books they bring home, sharing stories and going through the Jolly Phonics flipbook to consolidate the phonemes and tricky words we are learning. Encourage having a go writing at any opportunity; and doing lots of counting and practical subtraction. Keep checking the website for maths and phonics activities and don’t forget to look at your child’s on-line Learning Journey with them, to encourage them to recall and explain what we are doing at school together.
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Traditional Tales The 3 little pigs Weeks 1, And 2 |
Tricky words: are, her, was, you revising all graphemes and phonemes including digraphs reading CCVC and CVCC words revising y as ‘ee’ short vowels ck |
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Handy: Playing and exploring (engagement) Hearty: Active learning (motivation) Howie: Creating and thinking critically (problem solving)
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Traditional Tales Jack and the Beanstalk Weeks 3, 4 and 5 |
Tricky words: they, said, so come, some, like, have there, were, little, one double letters revising all graphemes and phonemes including digraphs reading and spelling CCVC and CVCC words
revising long vowels – split digraphs-silent e
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Non fiction focus:
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Easter Week 6 |
Tricky words: do, when, what, out
ay, oy
ea – as ‘ee’ |
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In our phonics, we are continuing to go over the 'long vowel' digraphs such as oa/ee/ai. Here is a fun game where you read a word and decide if it is real (into the treasure chest) or nonsense (into the bin). Select Phase 3 and any digraph your child might need to practice.
Maths Activities for the weeks beginning February 13th and 27th:
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Ordering, naming and writing teen numbers
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Beginning to think of a teen number as 10 and a few more
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Continuing to estimate
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Home activity: What’s in the drawer?
You will need: a clipboard with paper and a pencil
Invite your child to choose a drawer (ie cutlery/sock drawer) with between 12 and 20 objects in it. Challenge your child to estimate how many forks? How many knives? Write the estimates down on the clipboard, and then talk about the objects. Are there more spoons or forks? Do the estimates reflect this? Now count each set of objects. Were the estimates correct? Ask your child to close their eyes and remove some objects – can they estimate now?
Try to encourage informal estimation throughout the day – how many carrots on my plate, how many cars on the road mat, how many teddies on my bed, how many books on the shelf?
Maths weeks beginning January 30tand February 6th
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Removing a small number of objects from a larger number
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Beginning to use the language of subtraction
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Relating subtraction to taking away
Home activity: 10 Favourite Things
You need: bowls filled with 10 small items such as buttons, beads, toy cars, Lego men etc; 1 dice
Work together to ensure there are 10 items in each bowl. Now take turns to roll the dice. You must give that number of items to the other person. Can your child predict how many items they will have when they have taken away the required amount? Encourage your child to say the sums using correct language ie ’10 minus 7 equals 3; 6 subtract 2 equals 4; 8 take away 4 makes 4’. Play until one person has all 20 objects.
Extension: Encourage your child to write down each number sentence. Encourage problem solving skills by asking your child, how many do you need to get to 20 now? What if I roll a 6, how many will you have then? This game is also more challenging when played with several players in a circle; always ‘give away’ to the right, and ‘receive’ from the left! You can also work with 20 objects each and use 2 dice.
Maths Activities for Spring 1 Weeks 1 and 2: January 4 – 14 2017
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counting to 20 and beyond
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recognizing numerals to 10 and beyond
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writing numerals to 10
Home activity: Phone number
You need: paper, a pencil, a mobile phone
Write down the digits of your phone number using large numerals. Make sure your child can say each of the numbers. Now cut them out; can your child order the numerals from smallest to largest? Talk about which numerals are missing in the sequence. Now challenge your child to write down your phone number as you dictate it.
In our phonics, we have learned sh, th, and ch. Practise reading words with these sounds by playing this fun game:
Here is a taster of our plans for the rest of the half term. Please support your child with their learning by practising lots of reading of simple CVC words; going through the Jolly Phonics flipbook to consolidate the phonemes and tricky words we are learning; having a go writing at any opportunity; and doing lots of counting and practical subtraction. Keep checking the website for maths and phonics activities and don’t forget to look at your child’s on-line Learning Journey with them, to encourage them to recall and explain what we are doing at school together.
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New Year Chinese New year Weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4 |
Learning phonemes: ch, sh, th qu,o/oy, ou, ue , er, ar igh, ur, ow Spelling CVC words with magnetic letters Reading digraphs (best friend sounds) in words Reading tricky words I, no, go, to the |
Writing our holiday news Think of questions to ask Chinese children by email Talk 4 writing information book about Chinese life and culture Chinese New year story
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Ordinal numbers Days, months, dates Ordering numbers in a sequence missing numbers through 20
Begin thinking about subtraction, using chopsticks |
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Traditional Tales Weeks 5 and 6 |
Learning phonemes: split digraphs, ar, ay Tricky words: she me we be revise tricky words and begin to spell them continue to spell CVC words with magnetic letters and correct handwriting Reading sentences and captions |
Read different versions of Hansel and Gretel Make a ‘healthy house’ and label ‘ingredients’ Hot seat different characters Write a character description using Talk4Writing |
Estimating and comparing amounts and number – more/less/same as Subtraction – take away the bread crumbs trail Bus stop game Correct setting out of subtraction problems |
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The 3 Little Pigs Week 7 |
Revise digraphs: ee/y, ai, oa Learn tricky words was, all, are Continue to read sentences and captions
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Role play finger puppets, masks and small world Talk4writing story map Tell me a story – are the children using language features from stories? |
Estimating and comparing amounts and number – more/less/same as Writing teen numbers, saying one more than, one less than
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Maths activity for the weeks beginning 4 and 11 December
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comparing heavy and light objects
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beginning to measure weight on scales using non-standard units
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talking about different 3D shapes such as cubes, cuboids, cylinders, spheres and pyramids
Heavy and light
You need: packets and tins of food; a set of scales
Look at the packets and tins. Ask your child to pick them up in turn and decide which is the heaviest and which the lightest. Check by weighing on a set of scales. Think about why a box of Rice Krispies might be lighter than a jar of jam. Can you order the items of food by weight, lightest to heaviest? This takes good problem solving skills! While you are weighing the objects, also have a look at their shapes. Which shape is most common? Talk about the different faces of the 3D objects; slip the label off a tin and cut it flat - what shape is that? Have fun exploring shapes!
We are busy learning the songs for our Christmas Production. Here they are! You can enjoy singing them at home, too!
Are you Ready Nod and Neddy?
Christmas Dinner
We are the toys
Glory to God
There's a Star
Here is a taster of our plans for the rest of the half term. Please support your child with their learning by practising lots of oral segmenting and blending (sound talk); going through the Jolly Phonics flipbook to consolidate the phonemes and tricky words we are learning; and doing lots of counting to 20 and practical addition. Keep checking the website for maths and phonics activities and don’t forget to look at your child’s on-line Learning Journey with them, to encourage them to recall and explain what we are doing at school together.
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Diwali Weeks 3 and 4 |
Learning phonemes: f/b/ai/j oa/ie/ee/or tricky words: to the spelling CVC words with magnetic letters |
Continue guided reading Create story map of Rama and Sita |
Addition: practical combining of two groups and counting on using a number line Setting out sums with + and = |
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Christmas Weeks 5 and 6 |
Learning phonemes: a/w/ng/v oo/y/x revise tricky words and begin to spell them continue to spell CVC words with magnetic letters and correct handwriting |
Create class advent calendar, drawing and labelling ‘How I celebrate Christmas’ Create story map of Nativity story |
Positional language 2D shape Weight Measuring time
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Stick Man Week 7 |
Review all phonemes learned so far |
Create story map of ‘Stick Man’ |
Review numbers to 20, ‘counting down to Christmas’. |
This week we are learning firework poems and creating our own poetry too! Click below to share our favourite firework poems.
Firework poems
Maths Activity for Weeks beginning 31 October/7 November
Addition
We have been
- counting forwards and backwards to 20
- practising forming our numerals
- counting two groups to find the total
- using a number line to 'count on'
- learning the vocabulary of adding such as 'plus' 'add' 'equals', as well as the symbols + and =
Activity: Raisin Snake
You need: paper, pencil, coin, raisins
Encourage your child to draw a long snake and then draw 10 (or 20!) segments and help your child write a number in each, from 1 - 10 (or 20). Now explain you will play an adding game. Flip the coin - if it lands on the Queen's head, add 1 raisin to the snake; if it lands on the other side, add 2 raisins. Arrange the raisins so you can see the number on the segment. Challenge your child to count the raisins, and then use the number line to predict how many raisins there will be ie there are 7 raisins, you are going to add two - how many will there be? Use the language of addition to say the sum: 7 plus 2 equals 9. To further challenge your child, try writing out the sums, too. We would love to see them at school!
Talk 4 Writing
Every few weeks we learn a new story in Reception. So far this term we have learned to tell these stories: 'The Enormous Crocodile', 'The Meanies' and 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. Right now we are telling a version of 'Dear Zoo' called 'One More Pet'. Here is the text. Why not try telling the story together?
One More Pet
Maths Activity for weeks beginning 10/17 October 2017
More or Less?
We have been:
- thinking about more and less
- matching amounts to numerals
- looking at a number line to see how the numbers get bigger as we go along the line
Activity: Autumn Walk
Go for a walk, or explore your garden, and pick up a few handfuls of autumn objects such as leaves, twigs, conkers, nuts etc. Separate them into piles and challenge your child to say which pile has the most objects? Which pile has the least? Compare two piles and ask, which is more, which is less. Count them to make sure, and make a label to show the numbers. As a further challenge, can you work together to move the objects so that each pile has the same amount of objects?
Welcome to Reception!
Here is what we are learning this half term:
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The Meanies Weeks 3, 4 and 5 |
Rhyming words: recognise rhymes, generate nonsense rhymes, create a rhyming string
Sound talk: blending a word from its segmented sounds: c-a-t = cat ( to support reading)
Sound talk: segmenting a word into its sounds: cat = c-a-t (to support writing) |
Talk4Writing : Imitate The Meanies Create a story map as a class Create individual story maps
Rhymes of the week: Nursery rhymes
Start guided reading |
The language of measure: height, length, width; measuring with non-standard units ; 2D shapes |
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Our Pets: Weeks 6, 7 and 8
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Letters and Sounds Phase 2: s/a/t/p i./n/m/d g/o/c/k
Singing Sounds programme
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Talk 4 Writing: Imitate Dear Zoo; create class story map; innovate as a class and draw class innovated story map; make individual story maps to imitate Dear Zoo; make individual story maps of innovated story Rhymes of the week: from Rumble in the Jungle Make up a story: 2 or 3 stories scribed/read/performed to class each day |
Explore the concepts of ‘more’ and ‘less/fewer’, sorting sets of animals; extend to ‘what is one more/one less?’ |
We are looking forward to seeing lots of parents at the Phonics Evening on Wednesday 28th September at 6pm!
We are always happy to chat with you about our activities in school. Please have a word at the end of school and let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We also love to hear about what your child is doing at home!
We are looking forward to a fantastic year together!