This week we will be continuing with our work on Autumn. We will be focusing on the fiction text ‘Don’t hog the hedge’. The children will recap all all they know about Autumn so far and will look at how some animals get ready to hibernate during the Autumn in time for winter. The story is a lovely text that not only helps the children learn a little more about the season of Autumn and how animals prepare but it also has a message about sharing and being kind towards others. This is especially important at the moment as the children now feel a little more settled and some are struggling to share the resources and play kindly with each other. We will be doing a bit of work on kindness towards each other and how we need to share the resources so that everyone has a chance.
This week we will be assessing the children on the sounds that we have covered since the beginning of the term. We will be looking to see if the children can say the sounds correctly, if they can hear the sounds to blend simple words and if they can put some of the sounds together to read simple words. We will then group the children according to their knowledge and weather they are ready to move on and learn more sounds or need to recap over the sounds already taught. Please continue to go over the sounds every night and add the new sounds sent home on Friday to your pack.
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This week, the children will engage with activities that draw attention to the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how many’ objects there are. They have used subitising to identify the number in a set; they will now develop their counting skills to enable them to identify how many there are in a set that cannot be subitised. This connects subitising and counting to cardinality whereby the last number in the count tells us ‘how many’ things there are altogether. Using a ‘circling’ gesture to indicate all of the objects in a set will support children to develop an understanding of cardinality. They will also practise developing 1:1 correspondence, by counting numbers at the same time as moving or tagging the objects. The children will also explore how all sorts of things can be counted, including sounds. Singing counting rhymes will give them opportunities to hear, join in with and develop their knowledge of the counting sequence.
Can we remind parents that P.E is on a Monday. Your child should come into school dressed in their P.E kit of a red Coundon Primary T-Shirt, a red Coundon Primary hoodie and black bottoms. They should wear suitable shoes for P.E such as trainers. It would really help if your child can do up their trainers by themselves. Please steer clear of laces if your child is unable to tie them up by themselves.
Have a wonderful week,
The Reception Team