Reception
Topic Newsletters - 24/25
This week we are
We have been busy.......
This Half Term
Our focus book is:
We are reading Billy's Bucket. We are looking at all the exciting things that Billy has in his bucket and learning about all of the different sea creatures. We are going to be thinking of our own magical buckets and where we would go, what will we find.....
We are also reading Somebody has swallowed Stanley.
We are thinking about how to keep our plant clean and the affects of pollution to our world. We will be looking at the importance of reuse, reduce and recycle and what it means. We will be going on a litter pick around the school and creating posters to remind people of where litter goes.
Our topic this half term is: On the Beach
We are learning about the plants and animals that live at the seaside. It also explores staying safe in the sun and how to look after our bodies.
We are exploring the different animals that live in the sea, sand and rockpools. We will be exploring each week a different area about the beach.
- Who lives on the sea shore
- Feeling Crabby!
- We are looking at Rhyming
- Who lives in a rock pool (Reading sharing a shell)
- Save our seas! (Reading somebody swallowed Stanley)
- Fantastic facts
What we are doing in class -
Drawing club- each week we have a different focus for the children to write a sentence independently.
Creating our own Bucket's when reading Billy's Bucket.
Rhyming and creating our own rhymes.
Creating a super crab and writing about their journey.
Creating environmental posters
some of our recent work......
Tricky Words this summer;
we are learning to spell and read these:
out
today
said
so
have
like
some
come
love
do
were
Here
little
says
Phonics
In Phonics we have now learnt all of the sounds that we will cover in Reception. We are now moving onto using sounds in our writing and segmenting and blending longer words and 'chunking up'.
Below you will find a copy of our sound mat that we use in our Phonics lessons and during free-flow play.
Next Half term
Next Half term our final topic will be 'On the Beach'.