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THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:

SPRING TERM 1 TOPIC: Transport

LITERACY:

Book Focus: The Naughty Bus by Jan and Jerry Oke

The children really enjoyed reading about the mischievous adventures of the naughty bus. This week they will develop their ideas about this story through role play and discuss alternate adventures for the naughty bus. Where else could the naughty bus go?

This term we are also developing the children’s ability to break the flow of speech into words and write these as short phrases or sentences by encouraging children to listen for the initial and dominant sounds in words as they spell and write.

GROUP PHONICS: Group Phonics will continue this week with each group focusing on reviewing the sounds learnt and decoding new words as well learning how to spell and write these words.

KEY WORD LISTS:

• Your child will have received their animal word lists. These are the key words that occur most frequently in books your child will read in Reception and beyond.
• The word lists are designed to encourage your child to learn to read these words in a fun and engaging way so they can instantly recognise them in the books they read.
• Please check bookbags for animal word list folders which contain a useful information sheet for parents.
• Please only send in lists if your child is ready to be tested.
• Please note that there isn’t any rush for your child to race through the lists. It is more important that they have secure recognition of these words before moving onto the next list.

MATHS:

This term we focus on securing number skills within 0-10. This week we will focus on:

• Counting of actions or objects which cannot be moved.
• Counting an irregular arrangement of up to 10 objects with accuracy
• Selecting the correct numeral to represent 1 to 10 objects.
• Using language related to addition and subtraction

TOPIC:

This week we will explore different forms of transport such as land, air and water transport

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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#f0fe54″ ]HOMEWORK

Journey to school

Draw a simple map of your journey to school? Which places do you pass, which types of transport do you see?

READING BOOKS

Please continue to send in reading books, diaries and word lists on group days [/dropshadowbox]

 

 

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Happy 2019 and welcome back to school! We hope you have had a restful winter break and are looking forward to the new term as much as us. 

Please be reminded that school starts on Monday 7th January at 8.50am.

We look forward to seeing you then

Kind regards, 

The Reception Team

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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#fbf310″ ] THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:

SPRING TERM 1

TOPIC: Transport

LITERACY:

Book Focus: The Naughty Bus by Jan and Jerry Oke

The children will enjoy this delightful story about a little toy London bus which will stir their imagination as they explore their own ideas for where the bus could travel to next.

Phonics: This term the children will work in smaller groups to learn Phonics at the pace at which they are making progress. There will be 3 groups taught by different members of the Reception Team. Each of the groups will bring home different Phonics homework which matches their learning during group Phonics lessons.

MATHS: This term we focus on securing number skills within 0-10. This week we will focus on:

• Numeral recognition and formation using number formation rhymes
• Skills for counting reliably with 10
• Number facts for numbers within 10

TOPIC – Knowledge and Understanding of the World :  This week we introduce our ‘Transport‘ topic and find out what the children already know about this topic and discuss different types of transport and the different ways children travel to and from school.  [/dropshadowbox]

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Well done to all the children who received certificates for completion of all homework last term.

New homework will be sent out on Friday.

READING BOOKS

Please continue to send in reading books and diaries on group days

WORD LISTS

The children will receive their first key word lists, Kangaroo words, this week. Please help your child to read these words and help them to learn the routine of placing their word list wallet in the green homework box when they are ready to be checked.

Word lists will mostly be checked on group days but if your child is ready to have their words check on any other day please leave them in the green box. Please note that during busy periods we may not be able to check all words on the same day.

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more information to follow soon

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