Welcome to R2's Class Page

Here you will find information about the class and can find out what we have been doing in the classroom. Please check back weekly for updates.

Polite Reminders

We are going to be having P.E every Monday.

At the moment, we will only be removing jumpers/cardigans, and socks and shoes. Your child needs a P.E kit so that it is in school ready for when we start getting changed. On P.E day, please remove your child's earrings and tie their hair back. 

When children begin to bring home reading books, these will be changed every Tuesday.  Please 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 will be 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.  

Once again, we thank you for your continued support.

Reception Blog ~ Friday 19th April 2024 

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

This week we have been scientists and have made predictions regarding the concept of floating and sinking! We have had a wonderful time exploring buoyancy and making our own experiments with crafted boats!  

We have also been exploring books about boats, bodies of water and pirates!  

Read, Write, Inc. 

This week in phonics we have been in our new 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 3D shapes! We have been learning the mathematical names for the shapes, finding them in our classroom and discussing their properties! We are getting very good at naming the 2D shape faces that we can see on the 3D shapes. You can continue to revise 3D shape by naming the shapes, watching videos online and finding them in your home!  

 
Literacy / Creative Curriculum 

For literacy this week we have written our predictions for our floating and sinking experiments! We have made attempts to record our findings and have compared our predictions to the outcomes of our experiments! We were very shocked to see some items floating when we all predicted that they would sink! You could even continue this experiment at home too!  

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.    

Homework  

Homework this week will be to extend our understanding of the concept of floating and sinking! We would love for you to work with your adults to make more predictions, engage in more experiments and record your new findings!  

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.  

Have a lovely weekend. 

The Reception Team