WELCOME TO RECEPTION!
All of the Reception team Miss Woodford, Mr Cox, Miss Millotte, Mrs Thrower, Miss Lewis, Mrs Hole, Mrs Smith, Miss Hall and Mrs Gibbs are really looking forward to the upcoming year.
What have we been learning?
We have lots of fun topics to explore during the year based on the children's interests. These experiences will provide us with excellent opportunities such as trips, cooking and visitors coming in to talk to us. Some of our topics in the past have included pirates and fairy tales and exploring under the sea which included a trip to the Sealife Centre.
We will begin learning our sounds, learn how to write (including lots of fine and gross motor activities) and will start to learn lots of various maths skills including measuring, identifying patterns and exploring numbers to 10.
In Reception we learn through play and we are looking forward to creating lots of fun and exciting experiences for the children. If you feel this is something you could support us with we always welcome volunteers into our base.
Useful Information
Vocabulary Exposure
EARLY LEARNING GOALS
In Reception, children work towards the Early Learning Goals (ELG). Children should achieve these goals by the end of Reception so that they are ready for the KS1 curriculum to begin in Year One. Below is a list of the 17 areas of development that children will be required to achieve the Early Learning goals
in.
The 17 Early Learning Goals (ELGs) are:
Communication and Language
Understanding ELG
Speaking ELG
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Self-Regulation ELG
Managing Self ELG
Building Relationships ELG
Physical Development
Gross Motor Skills ELG
Fine Motor Skills ELG
Literacy
Comprehension ELG
Word Reading ELG
Writing ELG
Mathematics
Number ELG
Numerical Patterns ELG
Understanding the World
Past and Present ELG
People, Culture and Communities ELG
The Natural World ELG
Expressive Arts and Design
Creating with Materials ELG
Being Imaginative and Expressive ELG
READING -
Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
Children should be able to....
-Recognise the following graphemes (letters that represent a sound) -
Set 1: s a t p
Set 2: i n m d
Set 3: g o c k
Set 4: ck e u r
Set 5: h b f, ff l, ll ss
Set 6: j v w x (ks)
Set 7: y z, zz qu (kw)
ch sh th ng ai ee igh oa oo ar or ur ow oi ear air ure er
-Recognise the following words by sight -
Tricky words - I, to, no, go, the, into, he, she, me, we, be was, my, you, they, her, all, are, said, so, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, do, when, out, what
-High Frequency Words - a, an, as, at, if, in, is, it, of, off, on, can, dad, had, back, and, get, big, him, his, not, got, up mum, but, will, that, this, then, them, with, see, now, down, look, too, went, it’s, from, children, just, help
WRITING -
Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
NUMBER -
Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
To Support reading at home you should….
Ensure you read with your child every day.
Ensure reading is part of your daily routine including bedtime stories.
Sign up to Teach Your Monsters to Read on the following link https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
To support writing at home you should….
Encourage children to use writing as part of their day. i.e writing shopping lists, letters etc.
Practise correct letter formation when the children are writing and ensure they use the correct sounds when segmenting for writing. The phonetic alphabet can be found here…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ksblMiliA8
To support mathematics at home you should….
Ensure you continue to provide opportunity to use number and shape in everyday life e.g counting out food, sharing our dinners, discussing shapes you see and their properties.
Use Numbots as a way to develop number fluency.
Below are a few websites that may be of use to help your child continue their learning when at home:
Phonics
Tricky words (songs)
Tricky words are words that cannot be 'sounded out'
Maths
Get Squiggling Fine/gross motor https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=get+squiggling