Week 11 in Class R

Class: Reception Year: 2023 - 2024

Hello everyone!

It has been another busy week in Reception this week with lots of indoor and outdoor learning. We have been learning about families and how all families look different.

In Phonics we learnt th, sh, ng, nk. 

In Literacy this week, we have been looking at different families. The class wrote the sentence “It is my family.” and practised their letter formation. We also discussed age and different ages in our families. We compared ages of the people in our families. We have focussed on the words younger and older. We also looked at photos of how we change over time. The children discussed what babies need and how this changes as we grow into children, teenagers and then adults. As we have also been thinking about Baby Jesus in our Christmas story, our home corner now has a baby that the children are looking after.

This week, we have started practising for our Nativity Christmas play. We have told the children what their part in the play is and we have also sent home the children’s line(s). Please help your child practise their lines at home. This will help them to be more confident on the stage. 

In maths, we have focused on whole and parts. We started the week by speaking about objects that have parts and what a whole is. We looked at jigsaw puzzles and how they need all their parts to make a whole picture.  On Wednesday we played a game ‘Guess the whole’. We showed pictures of parts of an object and the class had to guess what the whole object was from the small part we were shown. We then extended this by finding looking at what parts make whole numbers e.g. 2 is made of 1 part and another part, 3 can be made of 1 and 2. 

In PE, we played some ball games. We worked together in partners and teams to throw, pass and catch a ball. We practised finding a space and moving around each other safely. We also practised changing direction and walking backwards.

On Friday, we unfortunately didn't have our planned visitor -the Dental Nurse. However, we still talked about how it is important to look after our teeth.  We talked about what it is like to visit a dentist, how the dentist checks our teeth and how to brush them. We practised brushing for two minutes so that the children knew how long the amount of time is. 

We hope to see lots of you at the Christmas Fair tonight and look forward to seeing you next week.