Reception Weekly Blog (24.1.25)

Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 4:37pm

What a wet and windy week!

We arrived on Monday ready to introduce our new experts. In Pinewoods classroom we had Dani teaching us all about her love of swimming and how we can stay safe in water as we progress through each stage. Over in Sand Dunes classroom the focus moved to Sophie, who was an expert in her field; the children have learnt so much about Moana and the fictional island of Motunui. The children love exploring different interests each week and we cannot wait to learn about more fascinating things next week.

We will be focusing on ‘Lunar New Year’ in Reception next week, as we learn more about this special celebration and immerse ourselves in this tradition, Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars.

We were delighted to meet our next Secret Storytellers on Friday, a fantastic choice of books too. We can’t wait to meet our next ‘Secret Storytellers’ on Friday. If this is something you/ your family members would be interested in please email us at [email protected]  

In Maths the children were introduced to number 7, we learned about 7 colours of a rainbow and 7 days of the week. They worked hard spotting 7 in different ways, as well as using differnt numbers to make 7. The children are now experts, after making their very own 7 poster complete with 7 counters in a Tens Frame. 

In our reading and writing sessions, we continue to focus on reading speed sounds at speed, in the spring term we start to see children ‘Fred in their head’, where the child whispers the sounds before blending them together to say a word.  

We are continuing to use ‘Fred talk, read the word’ when reading new green words: https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ATUJHnSq/AhYMLGsi

have a go at this new virtual classroom video, Zain is reading words using ‘Fred Talk’.

Please keep practising your Red Words, take a look at the following video where Rosie helps the children spot the tricky part of the word, using the phrase tricky letter!

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/Z8hWxzPp/yrHXdTMv

Please continue to send us your good news (no matter how big, or small) we love to share it as a class and it is so pleasing to see your children stand at the front and talk about their news [email protected]

Take care this weekend,

The Reception Team