Welcome To Reception
Cygnets Class – Mrs Davies and MrsDunford
Ducklings Class – Mrs La Coste
Welcome to EYFS. The teachers currently in reception are Mrs Davies and Mrs Dunford (Cygnet class) and Mrs La Coste (Duckling class) who are supported by Ms Reed.
Minibeasts!
This term our focus will be around minibeasts. We will be finding out about lots of creatures and where to find them!
In Phonics we will revisethe stage 1 song and concentrate on digraphs and trigraphs (where 2/3 letters are together representing one sound e.g. ch, igh, air). We will also be building our confidence to recognise tricky words on sight and have a go at using these when writing our own simple sentences. We will continue to practise our segmenting and blending to read words and as we gain confidence with this, begin reading more fluently.
Below you will find our topic overview giving you an idea of the things we will be covering as well as some ideas as to how you could support learning at home.
OUR KEY TEXTS
Reading is at the centre of all of our learning. Below are the key books that we will be sharing with the children.
Home Learning
Things you could do at home with your child
- Keep building fine motor skills- cutting, painting, and playdough
-Practice counting everything
-Practice number bonds of 10
-Have a go at adding and taking away with numbers up to 10.
-Read- every day if you can
-Practice reading tricky words
-Look for meaningful places to have a go at writing e.g. writing shopping lists of healthy foods or designing their own healthy lunch box.
Reading
Reading is one of the very best ways to support your child's learning across all areas! Just a little every day increases their vocabulary, enhances their understanding of the world and develops their comprehension. Children will continue to bring home a reading book matched to their phonic level, these books should not challenge them but instead cover sounds they know and enable them to build confidence and fluency to segment and blend. These books will also contain some of the 'tricky words' we have learnt (you can find a list of these below).
How can you help with reading?
- Choose a convenient time; for many children 5-10 minutes may be long enough.
-Use pictures and characters to engage their attention.
-Give plenty of praise!
-Stop if they are bored or become uninterested.
- Use your child's reading record to note down some comments - we love hearing how they are getting on!
You might consider-
-What they enjoyed/did not enjoy about the book and why.
-Any comparisons they made to other stories or their own lives.
-Comments about the events of the story.
-Ideas for what could happen next.
-Comments about what they notice from the pictures.
Hand Writing and Letter Formation
In the Spring term we will begin to look at correct formation for each letter. We encourage children to use the correct formation starting from the right place however, for most children at this stage they will be working on the letters in their names (using lower case). Correct formation helps children as they build fluency and will eventually support them in joining (intoduced in ks1).
Song of Sounds formation ditties can be found here.
Below please find the link for how to pronounce each sound. 
Phonics meeting
Number Sense
Early number sense video