Welcome back from the half term break. We hope you had a lovely break and the children had the opportunity to rest. We have a busy half term ahead and will be moving the children’s learning forward. All of the rules should now be embedded and the children will be expected to show increased independence. Please encourage this at home so we are working together and have the same expectations. We will be reminding the children of our school values of Respect, Responsibility, Resilience and Kindness and will be expecting this in everything they do.
This week we are beginning our topic on People who help us. The children will be learning about different jobs in our community and what their role entails. We will be talking about how these people help us and how they are important to society. The children will act out roles and be involved in a range of activities to help support their learning. Talk to your child about the people that help them and discuss who they should speak to if they need help with different problems.
The children will move into their new phonics group this week following on from their assessments before the half term break. The children will either be learning new sounds or consolidating the sounds already taught with a focus on reading CCVC or CVCC words. With your sound cards at home practise reading these words e.g. stop, chimp etc. Your child will bring their new reading book or activity home on Friday. Remember if your child has log in details for Oxford owl then they can click on Fred Frog and reread any of their past books. Below are some more videos to help practise blending.
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/j9z7dU96/SUVSQAgw
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/7sJ8oKrj/VAyjykyR
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/3nkAiMVk/4IHjodaz
This week, the children will continue to engage with activities that draw attention to the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how many’ objects there are. The children will also revisit the concept of cardinality – the idea that the last number in the count tells us how many things there are altogether. They will continue to be provided with opportunities to hear, join in with and develop their knowledge of the counting sequence and to become secure enough with their counting skills to be able to count out a set of objects from a larger set, remembering the ‘stopping number’ and knowing that this means they have selected the correct number. A key focus this week will be to consolidate the ‘stable order principle’ – rehearsing the order of the first 10 numbers and understanding that the position that each number holds in our number sequence does not change. While working with numbers to 10, the children will develop their understanding of the ordinal aspect by consolidating their understanding that each number has a value of ‘1 more’ than the previous number
Have a lovely week
The Reception Team