We have had a very exciting and busy week in Reception thinking about all the sights and sounds at Carnivals. We were impressed with the wonderful hat designs and musical instruments that the children created- they are applying their skills with lots of imagination! We have also been dancing to Carnival inspired music and creating our own parades. We were pleased to see the way that the children are applying their phonic knowledge to writing CVC words. In Maths we have been ordering numbers from smallest to largest and finding out what our friends favourite instrument is using a tally. What a busy week!
Next Week: we will continue our Festivals theme by thinking about Weddings.
Key Things to know…
Book Focus: When Willy went to the Wedding
Group Time Focus: this week we will be applying our phonic knowledge in hearing initial sounds, making CVC words and captions.
Maths: Ordering objects from smallest to biggest.
Phonics Focus: sounds u and r.
Rainbow Challenges (independent, open-ended provision)
Red Challenge – To make a tiered wedding cake using play dough.
Blue Challenge – To make a number line using numbered presents.
Yellow Challenge – To independently write the ingredients to make a cake.
Green Challenge – To make a wedding scene using small world and small construction equipment.
Purple Challenge – to build a wedding venue using the large construction area.
Gentle Reminder
The disco for Reception Children will be on Tuesday 26th November in the afternoon. This is a great opportunity for children to engage in other areas of the Early Years Curriculum to help develop e.g. Personal Social & Emotional , Physical, Expressive Arts- To move rhythmically in response to music! Adults will take children to the disco and refreshments will be provided by FOCUS.
Children are to remain in school uniform and NOT bring change of clothes.
We will inform you about the Nativity roles that the children will have, no costumes will be required but we may ask you to dress your child in a particular colour.
Tapestry Challenge
To find things around your house or in the environment things featuring the digraph ck and the phoneme e.