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Welcome

Welcome to R3's class page!

In R3, Miss Rackham is your class teacher. Mrs Hooper and Mrs Truman are the Professional Partners in Learning (PPL).  

Below you will find important information regarding your child's learning in Reception, messages and notices about  reading, PE and any other events taking place.

We update our class blogs each Friday on this page...Watch this space!

Kindest regards, 

Miss Rackham 

Reception Blog ~ Friday 26^th April 2024

Welcome back, we hope you have had a restful break.

This week we have continued to be scientists and have made explored the concept of planting and growing! We have had a wonderful time exploring plant life cycles and watching our cress grow over this week!

We have also been exploring books about planting, growing and seeds too!

Read, Write, Inc.

This week in phonics we have been in phonics sets and have been working hard on learning sounds, letter formation, writing words and captions independently,  

Here is a link to demonstrate how we say the sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXcabDUg7Q

Lots of us are now blending sounds into words. You can find out more information about this here:           

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyFikwNQTg

‘Jolly Phonics’ has some great songs that children can learn at home to support their phonics development:                 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvAYUvQUrGo

Maths

This week in Maths we have been exploring numbers between 10 and 20! We have explored the composition of these numbers and had a go at basic number bonds to 20 too! We have been using different resources to explore these numbers and have further developed out number recognition, counting skills, understanding numerical order and number formation too!

Literacy / Creative Curriculum

For literacy this week we have written the initial parts of a growing diary and logged what we did and what changes we have already noticed happening to our little seeds!

Please remember children in Reception will have their books changed every Tuesday.  Please continue to write in your child’s reading record each time they read at home. If you read with your child five times, please write in their record each time. This will earn them ticks on their reading card, which will eventually lead to certificates and prizes. All information on this is in the front of your child’s reading record book. Please ensure you child has their book bag EVERYDAY and please ensure no water bottles or snacks are put into the bags as we don’t want our precious books getting wet and ruined.  

Pupil Voice:

Elizabet – “I put the water on my seeds!”

Nellie-Beau – “My plant is going to grow up to be the biggest one!”

Ella – “number 15 is 10 and then 5 more! So it’s a one and a five!”

Homework

Homework this week will be in your homework files this week – please ensure that they are completed and returned by Wednesday 😊

PE

The children are thoroughly enjoying taking part in our PE lessons on Mondays. We are learning lots of new skills and different ways in which to move our bodies. Please remember we are only removing shoes and socks for the time being and ALL EARRINGS must be removed.

Messages:

• With the weather changing continually, please ensure that your child has appropriate clothing for all types of weather as well as a water bottle every day as the weather becomes warmer throughout spring.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Reception Team