Reception

What’s happening this half term?

Our theme this half term is colour and food. We will be having themed weeks based on Goldilocks, We’re Going On A Hunt and Oliver’s Vegetables, After the October half term, the children will be doing themed work around festivals and light.

Maths

We will be subitising (recognising up to five objects on sight), counting objects, as well as recognising and ordering numbers to ten, The children will be adding and subtracting amounts and finding one more and one fewer than any number up to ten. We will be working on recognising 2D and 3D shapes as well as creating and continuing patterns.

English

We will be having themed weeks based on Goldilocks, We’re Going On A Hunt and Oliver’s Vegetables, Room on a Broom, autumn, Diwali and the Christmas Story. We will be learning all the letter sounds this term and working on learning to read simple words that we can sound out. Our focus for writing is that the children learn to write all the letters of the alphabet using the correct letter formation. We also work on writing simple words, labels and captions.

Useful Information

Reading books are changed every Monday.

Home-School books will be given out every Friday and need to be handed back in the following Tuesday.

Snack money is £2 per week

Reception Class Virtual Library

Have a look at our Class Library! Here you will find the texts that the children will listen to and work from in school – there are links to click so you can read/listen to these stories at home!

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1416383862925164546