Christ Church Primary School
Reception News
Issue 15
Teaching and Learning
We started our new topic ‘Commotion in
the Ocean’ this week and during this half
term we will be finding out about the different creatures that live in the sea.
We have
begun to explore how some
animals live on the land and
others live in water and have
sorted these into two groups.
The children have looked at underwater
pictures and video clips and have used
interesting language and adjectives for
size, shape and colour to describe what
they could see. Later in this half term we
will be holding a special
assembly where you can come
and share with the children
the learning that has taken
place.
Letters and sounds
Phase 2 group: This week the children
have revisited all of the phase 2
phonemes and have focused reading and
spelling their 3 letter words by blending
sounds together and segmenting to spell.
Phase 3 group: The children have learnt
the new phonemes ai and ee. The
children are learning to segment the
sounds in these words orally in order to
help them write them independently and
to say and blend them together when
Friday 6th January
Ideas for learning at home
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Share reading books as often as possible and remember to sign the diary
to earn rainbow badges!
Practise reading sounds on keyrings
and write them with correct letter
formation.
Talk about addition in real life e.g.
There are 3 fish and 2 more swim
along. How many are there
altogether? Encourage children to
count out objects and combine
groups to solve the answer.
Say a number, ask what is 1 more
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Play a counting game and develop
mouse control at http://
www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html
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Find out about the oceans weirdest
animals by visiting national geographic kids website http://
ngkids.co.uk/animals/strange-seacreatures
Numeracy
We have recapped addition this week and
we have focused on reading an addition
and combining two groups to find the
answer. To support your child in their
learning here are some additions to have
a go at whilst at home. You could use
shoes, cutlery or anything
to solve!
3+4=
5+3=
6+2=
10+2=