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Dear Parents

Thank you for coming to see our musical performance last week. We are incredibly proud of all our Reception children and it was a joy to see how they have grown in confidence over the last three months.

As we approach the end of the Autumn term, we would like to wish you and your families a very joyous festive season. The children will celebrate with a class Christmas party on Wednesday afternoon. Please send in requested party treats by Wednesday morning. The children may wear their own clothes (party clothes) to school on Wednesday. 

The last day of school for children is Thursday 20th December. The children must wear their regular school uniform on this day.

Kind Regards

Reception Team

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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#d51414″ ]This week’s learning

AUTUMN TERM TOPIC: Light and Dark

Theme: Christmas

LITERACY:

Book Focus: The Stick Man by Julia Donaldson

Phonics: The children’s Phonics learning has now been assessed and next term they will work in smaller groups during Phonics lessons. This is to ensure that they learn phonic skills at the pace at which they are making progress. We will provide further information about this next term.

Please help your child by listening to them as they practise reading sounds and words using their phonic knowledge. Help them to point under each sound as they say each sound, then sweep their finger across the word as they blend to decode the word.

High frequency word lists: Next term we will begin sending home our ‘Animal’ word lists.

MATHS: This week we will revise concepts about number, shape and measure through our Christmas related activities. [/dropshadowbox]

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Writing CVC words

Use the sheet provided and write the words that match each of  the pictures, forming each letter correctly.

Please note that the children will not receive holiday homework so please send in all green homework books by Wednesday.

Reading  books:

This week, all reading books will be changed on any day between Monday – Wednesday so please ensure your child’s books are in their book bag everyday [/dropshadowbox]

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Wednesday, 19th December: Class Christmas party. Children may wear their own clothes to school

Thursday, 20th December: Last day of term

Monday, 7th January 2019: Children return to school [/dropshadowbox]

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We look forward to seeing you at our Christmas Musical Performance to watch your child perform the songs they have been learning.

This will take place on Tuesday 11th December at 9.30am in the main school hall. So please make your way to the main hall after you drop your child off at 8.50am

Kind Regards

Reception Team

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See songs to practise in previous blog post [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#dd2a3f” ]AUTUMN 2 TOPIC: Light and Dark

This week’s learning

LITERACY

Book Focus: Stickman by Julia Donaldson.

The children will be delighted to read this heart-warming, Christmas themed story about a stick family who await their father’s return.

Phonics: Assisted blending to decode cvc words. Please continue to practise daily decoding.

MATHS:

• To match a numeral to a random arrangement of a quantity

• To find count back from a given number

• To find one less than a given quantity

Understanding the world: The children will learn how Christmas is celebrated in different parts of the world

Expressive Arts and design: The children have been practising well for their musical performance to you on Tuesday. Also, this week they will be creating and making a range of Christmas related crafts in the creative areas of the classroom. [/dropshadowbox]

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Celebrations We have been learning about different kinds of celebrations. Can you talk to your adult at home and find out which celebrations are important in your family and what you do when you celebrate eg: birthdays, Christmas, etc. You could draw a picture or find pictures of different celebrations. Please use your phonic knowledge to write a label for your pictures

READING BOOKS

Please read with your child and write a comment in the yellow reading diary. Please keep both reading books and yellow diary in your child’s bookbag after each reading.

Please note that if reading books have been lost, they will need to be replaced [/dropshadowbox]

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Tuesday 11th December 2018: Reception Christmas performance to parents 9.30am in the main school hall.

Friday, 14th December 2018: Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas lunch for children. Children may wear a Christmas jumper over their usual school uniform (school dress or school shirt and school trousers)

Wednesday, 19th December 2018: Class Christmas party in the afternoon. Children may wear their own clothes to school

Thursday, 20th December 2018: Last day of term for children

Monday, 7th January 2019: Children return to school [/dropshadowbox]