Category: Reception Blog

This week was Nativity week! We enjoyed dressing up and performing ‘Our First Nativity’. In the classroom we covered words ending with -s and tricky words we, me and be. In Maths we have been subitising, recognising numerals, matching quantities to numerals and playing games using giant dice. In other areas we have been thinking about different types of puppets

This week the children were taught the new sounds sh, th, ng and nk and tricky words she, he, and of. In maths we focussed on counting by subitising to 5, singing songs like ‘Once I Caught a Fish Alive’ and playing the equal and not equal game. We read Room on the Broom and spoke about the characters and

This week we covered the new phonemes z, qu, ch and tricky words go, to, no and into. We are applying our phonics in different areas and writing more words on whiteboards. In Maths we looked at the composition of numbers to 5 using the terminology part and whole and we looked at patterns. We also spoke to a special

This week we have learnt the phonemes v, w, x, and y and tricky words and, has, his and her. In Maths we looked at part and whole of numbers. We also looked at capacity using boxes and toys. Books included Car Car Truck Jeep and Mrs Armitage, Queen of the Road. The children enjoyed communicating with cups and string

This week we carried on with our phonics learning and learnt the phonemes ff, ss, ll and j. We have also learnt some new tricky words this week and they are put, pull, full, as. We continued our learning in ‘Marvellous Machines’ where we looked at different poems about machines, talked about the features of poems which then helped us