Reception - Learning

Hello everyone,

I thought it had been a while since I shared what we had been learning and where our learning is going to. As we approach the end of the year we are letting children know that their time in reception will be coming to an end and they will begin a new exciting adventure in year 1. To help prepare for this we are encouraging children to be more independent not only with their learning but also in their organisation. If you wanted to help with this, you could set your child the challenge of putting their things where they need to be in the morning before going to their Teddy Job.

For our learning this week we have completed a Big Write! The children created their own Mr. Men last week (with some great names) and then wrote about them yesterday! Everyone did really well with this and the whole class was praised for 'Having a go' at something. The resilience shown was superb too. We have been writing much more in phonics too and we at this point in the year we are expecting children to write a simple sentence on their own - of course using all the tools they wish to!

In maths we have been learning about doubling & halving as well as continuing to consolidate previous learning of subtraction and addition. Again, as it is the last few weeks of reception we are asking children to complete simple number sentences up to 10 as well as solving simple problems. i.e. if I have 6 cupcakes and 3 people, how can we share them out? Any opportunities to develop this at home will definitely help children become more confident with the skills. Please do use objects though (even if it is fingers) as this will help to give children something concrete to see what they are doing.

We're also preparing for our final class assembly, which is next Friday at 9.20am - please come along if you can. The children are ridiculously excited! We will send home assembly lines next week for you to practise!

Reception team