Dear Families,

Welcome back Reception, we hope you had a lovely half term break with your families. This week we have been looking at a different contrasting country - Burkina Faso in Africa. We read the story of The Water Princess and learnt how the character Georgie, walked each day to collect water for her family. We looked at Georgie’s daily routine and compared with ours, described Georgie and learnt about her country and village. We also explored our new role play area on Safari in Africa, made African inspired jewellery and used watercolours to create the African sunset. In maths, we are learning about the teen numbers 11 - 15 and explored the place value of these numbers.  Thank you to those families who joined us for our Reading Family Friday event! A great start to the half term!

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!