We are currently enjoying our ‘Healthy Me’ topic. The children have been discovering different ways of keeping healthy such as eating healthy food, exercising, getting a good nights sleep, visiting the dentist, limiting time on technology and even made our own fruit kebabs. This week we are continuing to look at a balanced diet and making good food choices. Use this time as an opportunity to explore healthy food with your child and encourage them to tell you what they have learned.
This week we will not be having Read Write Inc. sessions as some of the staff are needed to support Year 6 SAT’s. We will be having whole class phonics recapping on the sounds already taught ready for our next assessment the following week. Please support this at home by continuing to practise the sounds and reading words using ‘special friends, Fred talk, read the word’. Your child will be bringing home a reading book that is slightly different to their normal book. This book will have the sounds in that your child should already know and will be a good opportunity for you to see how your child is progressing in their reading – are they using their strategies to read the word? Are they recognising words that are not new to them and reading them speedily? Remember to ask your child to read the book more than once until they are reading it speedily and fluently. There will be no online work set.
This week in Maths we will be focusing on grouping and sharing. We will be looking at putting amounts into different sized groups and will be sharing amounts out equally between groups. This is the early stages of multiplication and division and is essential before we move on to children reciting times tables or division facts as they need to understand what the terms mean. You could support this work at home by encouraging your child to share items into groups of . . . . . . . and group items into groups of . . . . . . . your child could then finish the sentence stem such as 8 can be shared between . . . . . . groups of 2.
The sun has finally come out and is hopefully here to stay. Please make sure your child has a sun hat, a water bottle containing only water please, not squash and apply sun cream before they come to school. We recommend using an all day sun cream as the children struggle with applying their own cream and often make quite a mess of themselves and the surrounding area. We also ask that your child brings a waterproof coat to school everyday. The British weather is ever changing so it is better that your child has the right clothing with them if it gets colder or rains. Remember the children in Reception spend a large portion of the day outside and we go out in all weathers.
On Thursday the children will be taking part in a sponsored wheeled event. You should have received an email all about it. Please send your child in to school on Thursday with a bike, scooter or pram to join in with our event. Th children will pedal, push or scoot around the playground 10 times to encourage them to be active and to show them that exercising can be fun. Sponsor sheets can be obtained from your child’s class teacher or from the school office or you can print off a copy that was sent with the email. Speak to a member of the team if you are struggling to provide a wheeled item and we will do our best to help.
Enjoy the lovely sunshine
The Reception Team