Reception (Nidd & Swale)

WEEKLY UPDATE

Good afternoon, 

This week the children have been amazing writers and have consolidated their knowledge of capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. 

This is what we will be looking at next week in English and Maths. 

English - We will exploring the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, discussing key vocabulary and writing sentences about the giant. 

Maths - We will be looking at addition and exploring strategies we can use to help us to add two numbers together, such as counting on from the bigger number. 

PE sessions will happen on a Monday every week. The children can come in PE kits on this day. If your child wears earrings, please make sure they remove these or cover them with plasters on PE days. 

The children will also continue to do daily phonics lessons and we will be introducing our Phase 3 digraphs: oo and ar.  We will also consolidate the digraphs we learnt last week: ai, ee, igh and oa. Team Swale and Nidd are so excited to get started learning our new phonemes. 

Your child will be bringing home today a new guided reading book as well as a new picture book from our class library. Their guided reading book will reflect our recent phonics assessments. We encourage you to read this book at least 3 times a week at home and please record this in your child's reading record. The children who have read 3 times at home are placed into a raffle to win a prize. Please see below the parent overview for our Spring 1 topic.

Please keep sharing your photographs on Tapestry. We enjoy having the time after our snuggle story in the afternoon to share these as a class. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Reception Team