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As the colder months of the year approach, could you please add a pair of black jogging trousers to your child’s PE kit if you haven’t already done so.
Kind Regards
Reception Team
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This week’s learning
LITERACY
Book Focus: Aliens love underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
The children will love this charming and funny story about alien creatures from another planet who are fascinated by human underpants! This delightful story will stimulate their imagination and create a stimulus for our learning this week.
Phonics: /r/, /h/, /b/, /f/ff / /l/ll/
MATHS
To develop understanding of 4 and 5.
Also to have opportunities to apply their learning and make links between each of the numbers 1-5.
CAL: To ask questions using words such as who, what, when, how and why things happen and to begin to give own explanations.
EAD: The children will begin to learn a few festive songs for their Christmas performance next month
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HOMEWORK
Day and night
We have been learning about day and night and what happens at these times of the day. We know that many animals can be active at night. Can you draw or find pictures of 3 different animals that are active at night and use your phonics knowledge to label your pictures [/dropshadowbox]
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Dear Parents, carers
Thank you for attending our parent evenings. If you missed your scheduled appointment please try and arrange another appointment as soon as you can.
Please note that school starts at 8.50 everyday and the children now engage in early morning work as soon as they arrive at school in the morning. If they arrive late, they miss out on vital opprotunities to practise their learning, so please do your best to ensure they are in class by 8.50am everyday.
Kind Regards,
Reception Team
AUTUMN 2 TOPIC: Light and DarkThis week’s learning
LITERACY
Book Focus: Whatever Next by Jill Murphy as well as a selection of non-fiction books about Space
The children will explore non-fiction books about Space, learning about the key features of a non-fiction book such as the title, heading, contents page, index page.
Phonics: /o/, /c/, /k/ /e/ /u/
Please keep sound sheet at home and continue to practise saying and writing these sounds every day. As your child continues to learn more letter sounds they may forget the earlier sounds taught so it is important to practise daily recognition and writing (using each of the sound cues eg /a/ – round the apple , down the leaf)
MATHS: To develop understanding of 1-3. The children will be introduced to Number blocks, a popular programme available on the BBC Cbeebies. Learning in Maths will be based around the characters representing the numbers in this popular educational series.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World: The children will learn about the different planets in our solar system.
Communication and Language: To listen and respond to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
HOMEWORK Remembrance Day
Who would you like to thank on Remembrance Day? Find or draw a picture about some of the different people who help us in our communities. Ask your adult to help you write a sentence about how they help us (eg. police/firefighters/nurses/doctors/paramedics, etc)
READING BOOKS
Please read with your child and write a comment in the yellow reading diary. Please keep both reading books and yellow diary in your child’s bookbag after each reading.
Please note that if reading books have been lost, these will need to be replaced
IMPORTANT DATES