Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Ashdown
Please click on the link to view how to pronounce the Read Write Inc sounds.
Nativity Song Lyrics
This week in Ashdown class:
Week beginning 27th November
This week we have been learning about celebrations that happen in Autumn and Winter. The children have discussed different celebrations including Loy Krathong (celebrated in Thailand), Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas. Some children have created menus for their celebrations in the home corner. In our outdoor area we have enjoyed using our post office; gift wrapping presents, writing and sending letters!
This week the children will be coming home with a set of ‘red’ words. These are words which do not use the sounds as we teach them, e.g. the word ‘put’ is written with an ‘u’ (normally sounded as in umbrella) but in this word it makes an ‘oo’ sound (like in book or cook). There are not many words that use the ‘u’ as an ‘oo’ sound so it makes more sense to teach the word ‘put’. To help your child learn these red words, please cut the cards up into individual words and use them to play games which will help your child memorise them. Games ideas can be found on the letter emailed to you this week.
In maths we have been exploring squares and rectangles, discussing their properties using the vocabulary straight, sides, corners / vertices. The children have also been describing their daily routines using the vocabulary first, then, after, before, day, night, morning, afternoon, today and tomorrow. Thank you very much to those children that have been logging on to Numbots https://numbots.com/ Every week each class will have a ‘Botstar’ for their efforts on Numbots. Please see us if you need log in details or have any questions.
Thank you for sending in Nativity costumes this week. Please can you make sure we have them by Friday 1st December at the very latest as we need them for our dress rehearsals next week. Thank you so much for your Christmas decoration donations too, we are very much looking forward to decorating our home corners with the children.
When writing, we are continuing to focus on using a tripod pencil grip, more information on this can be found using the link below. Please can your child continue to practise writing the sounds that we have learned in class. The Read Write Inc sound cards show the rhyme associated with each sound to help with letter formation. For example, we say, ‘down the stem, draw the leaves’ when writing the ‘f’ sound.
https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/teaching-tripod-pencil-grip.html
Numbots
To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/#/intro If you need your child's log-in please ask your class teacher.
A typical day in Reception
Adventure time is part of our Continued Provision. Adults provide Enhanced Provisions by facilitating learning based around the children’s fascinations and interests, as well as our current class based learning. In this time, we will also focus on children’s fine and gross motor skills – as part of their physical development, expressive arts and design, communication and language, maths, literacy, understanding the world and their personal, social and emotional development.
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8.20/8.30am | Adventure Time (inside) | |
8.35am | Welcome Collective worship | |
8.50am | Adventure Time (inside and outside, all 3 classes have the opportunity to mix) | |
9.30am | Review Adventure Time learning Snack time | |
9.45am | Phonics | |
10.00am | Adventure Time (Inside and outside, all 3 classes have the opportunity to mix) | |
11.30am | Lunch | |
12.00pm 12.20pm | Outdoor Play TA story | |
12.30pm | Teacher directed This might be R.E., literacy, PHSE, topic-based lessons or music. | |
12.45pm | Adventure Time (Inside and outside, all 3 classes have the opportunity to mix) | |
2.15pm | Phonics Review – revising the day’s sound
Milk (– for those who have ordered through Cool Milk) | |
2:30pm
| Story Time | |
2.45pm | Magic Maths | |
3.00pm | Home Time |
Reception Class Teachers
Reception Teaching Team
