Stay and Play

Another wonderful week full of learning in Reception.

We kickstarted the week with our Phonics lessons. This week's phonemes are: 'i' and 'n'. That means we have now learnt six phonemes so we can start building more words e.g. sat, sit, pin, pat, nip, nap, tip, tap. The children are doing really well to hear the phonemes at the beginning of words - can they play a game of I Spy using any of these phonemes?

Moving into maths, we have now started to learn all about numbers! We have started at the beginning with zero, learning that this means we have nothing. From here, we have moved to number 1. We found number 1 in/on lots of different things such as our number blocks, circles, clocks, rekenreks and tens frame. Can the children find any of these numbers at home?

It has been a really special week as the children have brought in their 'Show and Tell'. I must say, I have been so impressed with the children's questioning skills. They have amazed me with their ability to think of questions using who, what, where, why and when. Well done, boys and girls! Maybe we should do one every term?

Finally, we want to say a HUGE thank you to all of you. We had an amazing turnout for our Stay and Play today and the children looked so proud as they showed you around their learning environments. We hope you had a lovely time too.

Our parent meeting sign up sheets are at the office, please call up to book an appointment and let the ladies at the office know if you would rather it be face to face or a telephone call. The dates are as follows:

RA - Tuesday 15th and Thursday 17th October (evenings only)

RTW - Wednesday 16th October (some morning appointments as well as evenings)

As always, if you have any questions or concerns then please do not hesitate to let a member of our team know.

Autumn is here!

Our new book last week was 'Super Duper You' written by Sophy Henn'. This story has helped the children think about who they are and that they are super-duper just the way they are.

In phonics the children have now learned s, a, t and p. They are starting to tune into sounds when we are segmenting them (breaking the words up) and some children have begun to blend (put the sounds back together to say the word). It would be wonderful if you could continue to encourage your child to try and blend at home e.g “it's time for your b-a-th”

Repeating patterns have been great fun and the children have listened and watched so carefully and are enjoying making their own repeating patterns!

We had a lovely adventure on Friday as the children went for their first visit to 'Forest Garden'. They listened carefully to the rules and learnt some new songs. We read a special autumn story called 'The Leaf Thief'. The children had time to explore the garden and showed us all the beautiful autumn coloured leaves they were finding. They also made some brilliant nature faces.

We are looking forward to welcoming you all to your child's first stay and play on Friday. This is a fun afternoon to come and spend time with your child at school. See you there!

Time flies...

This week has been the start of our formal phonics teaching and learning. The first phonemes we have learned have been s and a. We've had lots of fun playing games and recognising and forming the graphemes. We would also like to say a big thankyou for your support at our phonics meeting on Wednesday evening and Muddy Mayhem.

Sadly our Colour Monster learning has come to an end. We've loved listening to the children discussing the feelings of the monsters in our story and representing those emotions.

In maths we have explored 2D and 3D shape, the children showed excellent shape awareness in their creations.

We also welcomed the return of the sunshine this week and a dry afternoon for our Muddy Mayhem event. The children threw themselves into the fun, what a lovely way to end the week!

Our First Week at School

Our first full week at school is now complete!

We are so proud of all the children and they should be extremely proud of themselves. They have taken every new thing in their stride and they have been working super hard to follow our new rules in school.

Over the course of the week we have been introducing new routines to the children such as going out for lunch time, having a focused carpet time, and exploring the unit in a meaningful way. They have shown use how nicely they can play together, how well they can sit at lunch time and we have been super impressed with their thirst for learning.

Well done everybody! What an exciting year we are going to have together.

*Just a reminder that we have our Phonics evening next Wednesday at 3:30. We look forward to seeing you then. If you have any questions or concerns about this then please do not hesitate to contact a member of our team.

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