Hello!

This week the children have been learning the traditional tale of The Three Little Pigs for our final Talk4Writing unit of the year. They have been learning actions to help retell the story, they have created story maps and we have had some wonderful oral retellings of the story.

Next week the children will be using their phonic knowledge to write parts of the story. They will also make the story their own by changing elements of the original.

In maths this week we have been comparing amounts using the vocabulary more, fewer and equal. The children have compared numbers using the two rows of beads on the rekenreks. We have also been identifying number patterns in the numbers 10-13 and using numicon to represent these numbers.

Next week we will be learning how to identify tens and ones within numbers. We will look at objects on ten frames and use numicon to create numbers using tens and ones. The Numbots website has some interactive numicon you might like to play with at home: https://mathsbot.com/manipulatives/numberFrames

The children had a great time taking part in a variety of different races for our Sports Day on Tuesday morning. They all looked very colourful dressed in the colours of their team. The children all tried really hard and showed super resilience, encouraging each other with lots of supportive cheering. Thank you for coming to support your children in this. And well done if you had a go in the adults’ races!

It is Transition Day on Thursday next week, where your child will move up to their Year 1 class for the day. They will need dropping off and picking up at the Year 1 classroom on this day. Over the next few weeks we will be doing lots of work about moving onto new things to help prepare the children with their transition into Year 1.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Reception Team