Reception Weekly Learning Update

Reception Weekly Learning Update 24th November 2017 Being imaginative Writing

We started our week off by wondering where a As part of our Meg and Mog topic we have witch’s hat, broom stick and other related items been writing sentences using positional had come from. The children came up with language. The children have been describing wonderful ideas such as; “a witch came to where Mog is and recording it as a simple school” “a teacher left them behind” and “they sentence; fell down the chimney”. The following day we received a letter from Meg and Mog explaining Mog is in the bed. that her spell had gone wrong and that her Mog is next to the pot. items had been transported to school instead of her home! Number Phonics The children have now been introduced to all This week we have been problem solving! Mog of their initial sounds, wow! was making spells, using ingredients and we had In phonics we will now be moving on to to work out many were left. The children were digraphs (two letters that make 1 sound) e.g posed with questions and practical scenarios ee, ch, sh, ow etc. such as; Some of the children will be consolidating Meg has 5 worms. She used 3 in her spell. How their learning of initial sounds and practise many does she have left? blending for reading and segmenting for We solved this practically, then used our spelling using these sounds. All of the fingers and finally the children were shown how children will be introduced to the digraphs at to write this as a number sentence; 5-3=2 some point.

Wriggly Nativity Class website

Practises are ongoing and the children are Each week I update our class page with working so hard to learn the songs! You should photographs and information on what we have have been allocated tickets to come and watch done in the week. Please keep looking and our performance – if you can’t make the enjoy getting a glimpse into the busy days performance and would like to swap your ticket your child has at school. To access our class for the other show then please bring them to page please select ‘children’ from the menu, the school office (or in a named envelope in your then ‘classes’ and then ‘Class I7’. Please don’t child’s bookbag) and we will endeavour to swap get mixed up with the archive (this is the them for you – space permitting. previous year’s class 7!) If you require any help accessing the website please come and ask me!