Reception Blog
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Week 3
Our first full week in Reception without our grown-ups is complete!
We have been getting to know one another, and our environment and learning the rules and routines at school. Despite a few tears, we are all settling in well!
Next week we will be starting our topic - Space! Our first story will be 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy,
Perhaps this weekend you could look at pictures of The Moon. Or even better, see if you can spot The Moon in the sky (as long as it's not past your bedtime!)
Sun and Moon
Week 4
We came into Mora eager and ready to learn. We have been embedding our new rules, routines and behaviours and have been extremely successful at it.
This week we were reading a book called ‘Whatever Next’. We learned to listen and respond to longer stories. We sequenced the story and shared our ideas of what we would like to take to the moon.
In Maths, we learnt about subitising. Subitising is when we recognise a small number of objects without needing to count.
We have been busy in phonics learning our first set of sounds;
s a t
Reminders
All children need a spare bag of (old) clothes on their peg.
All children need a book bag so they can take a storybook home to share with their family. Please bring storybooks back to school the following day so the children can take a new one home.
Please make sure all uniforms and clothing are labelled.
Reception Sun & Moon
Week 5
Literacy
This week we read "The Way Back Home" by Oliver Jeffers.
An alien spaceship has crash-landed in our classroom! The alien inside needed our help! We were super curious about the crash landed so we drew observational pictures of the space ship. We investigated the spaceship, collected evidence for the police and labelled the bags using our sounds.
Maths
This week we were engaged in activities that drew attention to the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how many’ objects there were altogether.
We were busy in phonics learning our first set of sounds;
s a t p i n
Reminders
All children need a spare bag of (old) clothes on their peg.
All children need a book bag so they can take a storybook home to share with their family. Please bring storybooks back to school the following day so the children can take a new one home.
Please make sure all uniforms and clothing are labelled.
The way back home...
Week 6
Literacy
This week, we were reading the book called ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ by Claire Freedman. The story was about adventurous aliens coming to earth to steal under pants as they do not have any of their own in space. We were exploring different types of underpants and used key vocabulary such as pattern, colour, stripes, spots, zigzag to describe pants.
Maths
This week, we explored how numbers can be composed of 1s and, from this, began to investigate the composition of 3 and 4. We used different resources to compose and decompose numbers.
We were busy in phonics learning our first set of sounds;
s a t p i n m d g
You can practise reading the following words:
at, it, an, in, and, dad, sit, mat, pig, sat, pat, pit, man, map, sip, nip, nap
Tricky words we learnt are:
is, I
Reminders
All children need a spare bag of (old) clothes on their peg.
All children need a book bag so they can take a storybook home to share with their family. Please bring storybooks back to school the following day so the children can take a new one home.
Please make sure all uniforms and clothing are labelled.
Aliens love underpants
