Dear Families,

The first week of our new topic of the Spring. We loved exploring our new role play area of a Garden centre, where we planted our own flower and cress seeds. We investigated the weather and conducted our own weather report. We also made weather dials and wind streamers! We enjoyed singing our own Mothers Day song in Music and creating Mothers Day paintings with Ms Hanssen to celebrate our special Mummies! We made Red Nose Day biscuits and designed our own noses. In Maths, we have been exploring sharing and halving. We practised finding half of a number by sharing into 2 groups. We learnt that only even numbers can be halved! Please remember to return book bags with both books and reading journals into school every Wednesday so they can be checked or changed. If the books are not returned, we will not be able to swap them or hand anymore out. Please ensure your child is practising their reading with you everyday! Next Tuesday, we are excited to visit a local park to investigate Spring nature and weather! Please return your completed permission slips on Monday. 

Wishing our Mummies a lovely Mother's Day on Sunday! 

Best wishes from the Reception Team

Click on the picture below to listen to the story with your child, then ask them the suggested questions.

We have learnt the words below this week. Can you ask your child the suggested questions to encourage them to use the words in a sentence?

Practise the sounds we have learnt this week with your child by clicking on the pictures below. The more opportunities they have to see, hear and say the sounds, the more likely they are to stick. The videos will teach you too! Then practise learning to blend with Fred talk.

Try out one or both of these activities with your child this weekend. Please send us any photos you take or bring your child's learning into school - we'd love to see them!