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Recepon Newsleer

January 2015

Dear Parents/Carers,

The Recepon team would like to share with you our main aspects of learning for this half

term, so that you can connue to support your child at home. We hope with your help, the

children will be able to achieve the objecves we plan for them.

Mathemacs

We are learning that anything can be count-

ed including objects, steps or claps. We are

learning about esmaon by guessing how

many objects there are rst before counng

them all to check. We are learning how to

represent numbers using our ngers. We

will be making marks on paper to represent

numbers and drawing pictures.

Communicaon and Language and Literacy

We are learning to link leer names with

their sounds. We hope most children will

begin to write leers independently and

start to use their phonic knowledge of leer

sounds in their wring. We are encouraging

them to think about what they want to

write rst before having a try. We are

learning about non-con texts and using

them to nd out informaon.

Personal, Social and Emoonal

Development

We will be revising rules this half term.

You could support your child by talking

about appropriate behaviour and why we

have rules. Some of the rules we will be

working on are:

remember to take turns and share

use an indoor voice in the classroom

walk dont run when inside the school.

Physical Development

We are pracsing our skills when using small

sports equipment. This will include hoops,

balls, beanbags, skipping ropes and quoits.

We will be learning how to show increasing

control such as throwing, rolling and bounc-

ing.

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Expressive Arts and Design

We will be exploring sounds that dierent

instruments make. We will be changing

sounds by making them loud, quiet, fast,

low. We will be supporng children to use

their imaginaon in art work, dance, small

world and role play linked

to our topics.

Cooking

Your child will be cooking throughout the

year in various curriculum areas. If you have

not already done so, we would like to ask

you to make a voluntary contribuon of 1

towards the cost of

purchasing resources. Please

give the donaon to your

childs class teacher.

Understanding the World

This half term we will be exploring new

programmes linked to our class topics. We

will use programmes to nd out and learn

that informaon can be retrieved from

computers. Later in the half term we will be

nding out about Chinese New Year and

how it is celebrated around the world.

It would also be helpful if you ..

make me to share a book with your

child every day;

help your child to learn her/his key

words by playing games such as, pairs,

snap, looking for the words in books,

displaying them around your home

We hope some of these ideas will be helpful to you. If you have any quesons, queries or

concerns we are always willing to talk them through with you. If we are unable to answer

your queson immediately, we are always willing to make an appointment for a more suita-

ble me.

Thank you for your support on behalf of the Recepon Team

Mrs S. Burrows

Early Years Team Leader

Watch out for fundraising events later this term. These will be held in order to raise money

for trips later this year.