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Reception news – 25.9.26

Phonics

This week we have learnt the phonemes i, n, m and d. Our hard to read and spell words are ‘I’ and ‘the.’ We modelled using them in sentences. The children are doing so well practising forming the new letters and spelling our new hard to read and spell words.

Click here to see the rhymes we say to help us how to form the graphemes we have learnt so far.

Busy Bee Writing books

Over the year the children will do lots of different writing tasks in their Busy Bee books. This week we have started with the children drawing their family and practicing writing their names. We are super proud of their work.

Maths

This week we have been doing lots of subitising. When subitising, children can say how many there are in a small group of objects by ‘just seeing’ and knowing straight away without needing to count. They have had fun doing lots of practical maths activities.

We have also introduced the children to the Numberblocks. These are fun characters that we will use during some of our maths lessons.

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Understanding the World – RE

In our Understanding the World lesson we talked about our families this week. We read the book A Family is a Family is a Family and the children talked about who was in their family. We were really impressed with how confidently everybody spoke in front of the whole class.

PE

In PE our focus this week was jumping. We practised jumping with two feet at the same time and bending our knees and using our arms to help us. The children did a brilliant job jumping onto different floor markers.

Reading, Phonics and Maths in Reception

On Wednesday 7th October we are inviting parents and carers to come and find out more about how we teach reading, phonics and maths in Reception. You can either come into school 2.30-3.10pm or you can join us online 6-6.40pm. A letter should have made it home this week. We would like to see as many parents/carers attend as possible as it is a really useful meeting. A link for the online meeting will be sent nearer the time.

Photograph celebrating Farsley Farfield. This is a protected, reduced-resolution and watermarked image. AI training, biometric analysis and synthetic modification are prohibited.

Library

We will now visit our school library on Thursday. Please can all library books be returned to school on Thursday. Thank you.

PTA Sweet Pot challenge

Thank you to everyone who has already donated. We are doing so well. Please remember to keep bringing in some money as the competition closes next week. You can donate online or send some money in. We could win £50 to spend in our classroom!

Farsley Scarecrow Hunt

We have been busy creating some scarecrows for the upcoming Farsley Scarecrow Hunt. It is being held this weekend – 26th and 27th September. There will be lots to see. I wonder if you can guess what we are doing…

Everything else…

Have a great weekend. Good luck scarecrow hunting!

The Reception team

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