Welcome to the Reception class page

Please find all the information for the term ahead.

Term 1

WELCOME TO RECEPTION!

This term, we will be welcoming the children, making them feel settled, happy and safe. We we be getting to know each other, our likes/dislikes, our families and making new friends. We will be learning new routines and learning new rules and boundaries.

The children will be working together as a class, building relationships and showing kind and considerate behaviour towards their classmates. We will spend lots of time learning the classroom rules and making sure everyone feels happy and safe. You can help your children at home by using the same language as us:

• Kind hands
• kind words
• walking feet
• inside voices
• listening first time, every time
• ready for leaning
• respect each other and our toys
• choose it, use it, put it back

We will use our class dojos and house points to reward the children when they are demonstrating positive behaviour. We also encourage the children to use the phrase, "Stop it, I don't like it" if a peer is demonstrating behaviour they aren't happy with and come and find an adult if this doesn't work.

Topics this term:

All About Me:

We will look at:

• Ourselves - what do we look like
• Our families
• Our favourite things
• Our likes/dislikes

Superheroes/People who help us:

We will look at:

• Superheroes
• Super powers
• Police
• Paramedics/ambulance/hospital/doctors/nurses
• Firefighters
• teachers
• Dentists

Celebrations this term:

• Halloween

Talk for Writing (TfW) and literacy

This term we will be:

• Learning and re-telling the story 'Supertato'
• The children will: re-tell verbally, with actions, using story maps, small world and role play.
• Talk about characters (main character - Supertato, other characters - Evil pea, Broccoli, Carrot) and settings (supermarket) and think of ways to describe them.
• Learn new vocabulary from the story such as defeated, evil, strength.
• Read other stories that compliment this story, for example other stories in the Supertato stories, super hero stories, stories that show people who exhibit 'super powers' in real life.
• Read information texts about real life superheroes/people who help us.
• Learning a new rhyme/poem each week

Maths

We will be learning to:

• Count accurately to 10 and back
• Using number rhymes to explore number and using fingers for representing number
• subitise numbers to 3 (recognising an amount without counting - for example, spots on a dice, shapes of numicon, shapes of numberblocks)
• Use 1:1 correspondence when counting objects and actions
• understanding the oneness of 1 and the twoness of two etc.
• Using fives and tens frames to count (see attachment below)

Phonics

We will be learning to:

• Tune into sounds all around us
• Explore making different sounds
• Hear all the sounds in words
• Oral segment and blend using robot talk, for example cat becomes c_a_t (your child does not need to be able to recognise letters or words to do this, they just need to be able to hear the sounds)
• Begin to learn new sounds

Mindfulness/yoga

We will begin to do some mindfulness and yoga as it helps to focus your child's minds and helps them with their physical development.