Happy New Year and welcome back to the Spring Term. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and the children feel refreshed and excited about the new term ahead.
Our topic for this half term is Journeys, where we will read the beautiful story of ‘The Queen’s Hat’ and learn lots about London. We will enjoy learning about transport and a number of very famous buildings in London.
Each day, we will have our Phonics session, where we will be learning Phase 3 graphemes (where a group of letters combine to make one sound). We will also have our weekly group reading sessions, where we will continue to send home the same book for you to enjoy and share with your child.
In Maths, we will begin the term by focusing on counting and finding out how many objects there are. There will be lots of fun, practical activities and singing lots of counting rhymes.
Here is our Newsletter for the afternoon sessions … Our topic is called ‘Journeys’
Our books this half term….
Phonics For nursery age children -
We follow ‘Little Wandle Foundtions’ and the CUSP curriculum.
Reading in Robin Class - We really love stories and reading for fun in Robin Class, be that sharing a much loved book at home, choosing one to snuggle down with in the reading corner or voting for our story time book.
Click the link below to see a list of the top 100 Reception age good quality texts.
How many have you read before? Could you visit our local library to find some of them?
This reading list has come from Books for primary schools - Peters and includes many interesting titles.
Nursery 100 Books
Here are some of the books we will be enjoying this year.
Maths - White rose maths
Maths in the Reception Class
As a school we follow the ‘White Rose Hub’ Maths curriculum outline to ensure that the children are both learning and consolidating their maths knowledge in discrete lessons, group work and during child initiated play.
Phonics in Reception
As a Reception class we have recently began our journey with a phonics scheme called ‘Little Wandle.’
Each day the children share a whole class phonics session where we are introduced to a new phoneme (sound) starting with single graphemes (letter shapes) moving on to digraphs (2 letter sounds- ch, sh, ee) and trigraphs (3 letter sounds - igh, ear)
Each day we practice blending the sounds for reading and segmenting the sounds in a word for spelling. We also practice our ‘tricky words’ daily. (words that cannot be sounded out - the, no)
The children read in guided reading groups revisiting the same book. These books are matched to the children’s current learning in the phonics sessions and this allows them to apply their new learning.
Children who need any extra practice are supported through daily ‘catch up sessions.’
