Reception (Nidd & Swale)

WEEKLY UPDATE

Good afternoon, 

This week we are continuing our learning journey linked to traditional tales. Our focus story is Little Red Riding Hood and we have used this online story to help us to make story maps to identify the Characters, Setting, Problem and Solution. We will use our map to retell this story. 

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/listen-watch/short-stories/little-red-riding-hood 

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

English - We will be using our knowledge of the Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood to explore words to describe him. We will write simple sentences applying our new phonics knowledge, e.g. He has sharp teeth. 

Maths - We will be continuing to explore doubling and halving using the Numberblocks to help us. The episode from the Numberblocks 'Double Trouble' on BBC iplayer will be a great pre-activity to watch over the weekend to get your child started.  

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 digraph: er and two new trigraphs ear and air.  We will also consolidate the digraphs we learnt over this past term week. 

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 encourage our children to talk about the photographs and they love to read the messages you send.

We hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Reception Team