Reception 2023 - 2024

Another super busy week in Reception. We have continued with our ‘Bug’s Life’ topic with a focus on worms. The children enjoyed creating a wormery, watching them over the week and learning all about them. They also loved being minibeasts in PE! On Tuesday, the children enjoyed watching the travelling Image Theatre’s production of ‘The Selfish Giant’, thank you to Friends of Hillside for funding this.

In English, the children have started to create fact files about each of the minibeasts, this week writing sentences about the features of a worm, how they move and what they like. We have focused on segmenting and blending sounds to write words (using the correct letter formation), remembering finger spaces between words, capital letters and full stops. In phonics, the children have learnt a new trigraphs: ‘air’ (that’s not fair), which they have for homework alongside recapping ‘ay’, ‘ee’ and ‘igh’.

In maths, we are continuing to look at numbers to 20, counting objects and ordering them. We have also been measuring and ordering worms by length.

Looking forward to next week:

Tuesday- PE kits

Thursday 2nd May - Trip to Queen Charlotte’s Wood – maps and info were sent home yesterday. Please let us know by Monday latest if your child needs help with transport to/from QCW.

Don’t forget to email any photos of the things your child gets up to at home for Show & Tell. Also let me know if you are available to be a secret reader this term.

Enjoy the weekend… Hopefully the sun continues to shine.

Miss Jagota

26.4.24