Reception Weekly Review

 Learning Through Play  

This week we have had a fantastic week both inside and outside during Learning through Play. The children have loved taking part in the train role play set up and using the bikes. Indoors the children have been drawing lots of trees and rivers and building different settlements.

 Physical Development  - PE - Preparation for Sports Day.

This terms PE sessions with Morris have been lots of fun! The children have been preparing for sports day by practicing a range of different activities. We are all looking forward to next Friday where can put our practice to use. We invite you all to join us on Friday the 10th at Tooting Athletics track. 

 Phonics 

Phase 4 learning continues in Phonics and we have been focussing on CCVCC words such as crisp, blend, crunch and strong. We have been practicing listening carefully to ensure we hear all the sounds in our words this week.

Our tricky words this week have been ‘were’, ‘here’, ‘says’ and ‘little’. A big thanks to everybody who has been practicing tricky words at home. This really supports your child with their reading and writing.

Maths

In Maths this week, we had a look at debugging patterns. We looked at a range of different patterns, noticed mistakes and fixed them. The children also had turns at creating patterns and labelling them. 

In maths mastery we continued to look at counting to find out how many of something we have. We also counted something we couldn’t see e.g., claps, drumming. We practiced starting at different numbers and counted beyond 20. 

 Topic 

This week we looked at the book ‘ The Tree and the River’ by Aaron Becker which is another book nominated for the Yoto Greenaway Awards for its wonderful illustrations. Our book this week didn’t have any words so we all needed to look at the pictures carefully to understand the story. We looked at the use of colour and light to change the mood of the page and how it made us feel. Every child chose a colour and described how it made them feel.

 Understanding The World - More Planting

This week we planted tulip bulbs that Stella's Mum had brought in for the garden. We had turns digging holes, planting the bulbs and then covering them with soil. We watered the garden and are all looking forward to seeing what colour tulips appear!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Very best wishes

Georgie, Jessie, Tara and Maftuha

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Showing assembly

This half term:

Jessie's class will be in the middle hall.
Georgie's class will be in the lower hall.

Reception children will get certificates each week but we will not start sharing our work until after the first half-term break. 

Fund
A huge thank you to the parents who have donated to the school Reception fund.  Please remember to contribute if you can. 

Keep an eye on our important dates:
We will try to add on the relevant dates below but please check the main calendar and Parent Mail for all important dates.

See our 'Reception Information' page for all you need to know about the year.

Remember to follow us on Twitter to see what we are up to during the week. You can find us @RavenstoneEY

Things we need

Fund

In Reception, we often buy items to supplement the children's learning.  From ingredients for playdough to art supplies, small items for you termly themes to large exciting things like the ducklings.  To help pay for all this, we are for a £1 a week voluntary contribution.  If you would like to help, just give anything you can to us in the mornings.  Thank you.

Art

Do you have any of the following?

• Plastic bottle tops
• Boxes – large and small
• toilet rolls
• egg cartons
• cardboard boxes
• plastic bottles
• yoghurt pots
• bubble wrap
• newspapers and magazines
• shells
• CD
• recyclable straws
• Buttons

If you have any of these, we would love to have them.  Thanks