Reception

Spring 1

OUR LEARNING THIS HALF-TERM

This half term we are exploring the story of 'The Enormous Turnip' in our Talk for Writing lessons and in our Learning Play.

We will also be celebrating seasonal changes as winter gives way to spring, and significant events around the world including Epiphany, Chinese New Year and Shrove Tuesday.

In phonics, we are learning to segment and blend, form letters and manipulate phonemes in our sound swap games.
In maths, we are learning about subitising, 1-1 counting and properties of shapes. including triangles, squares and rectangles.
In Talk for Writing, our unit is the 'Enormous Turnip'. The children will have a number of opportunities to explore characters, the story layout and retell the story by the end of term.

HOMEWORK

Every Friday, your child will come home with a handwriting sheet which should be returned to school by the following Wednesday.

Please support your child to ensure that their home learning task is the best that it can be. You can do this by:

encouraging your child to “say the sounds” as they write them
put their pencil on the dot and follow the direction to form the letter correctly

In addition to their weekly homework, your child will need to read aloud to you everyday. Book change day will be on a Wednesday.

TRIPS

We hope to have a trip in our local area later this year.

FAMILY LEARNING

Family Learning Week is w/c 16^th March – save the whole week in your diaries. There will be a class learning session one morning and then whole school sessions in the afternoons.

We had a Family Learning session on Wednesday 14th January at 2:20pm. Thank you for coming along to learn about how to support your child with their reading at home. If you were unable to attend, please speak to the class teacher so you can receive their new reading folder, reading diary and their first reading book.

Family Learning Info