Reception Elm Class 2023 - 2024
Miss Allenden
Support Staff: Mr Biddle, Mrs Bell & Ms Williams
Miss Allenden | Mrs Bell | Miss L Wiliams |
Curriculum Information for Summer 1
Talk 4 Writing
In T4W this half term we will be learning a story about a character called Sam who is lonely and needs a companion. He writes to his local zoo and they try to help. They send him lots of animals as potential pets but none of them are quite right, so he sends them back! The zoo try lots of attempts and finally they find a perfect pet and companion for Sam.
We will learn our text by retelling it using actions, drawing a story map and using role play. We will innovate our story by changing the characters. Throughout the half term we will invent our own stories for our friends to hear.
Other texts that will make up our 'Reading Spine' this half term and be used to develop our story language are:
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This Zoo Is Not For You
Ross Collins
The Moonlight Zoo
Maudie Powell tuck
We’re Roaming in the Rainforest
Laurie Krebs
Wanted: The Perfect Pet
Fiona Roberton
Silly Doggy
Adam Stower
Maths
We have now launched Numbots. Children are encouraged to access this at home for at least 15minutes across the week. We also have this accessible to children within the provision using IPADs. NumBots is all about every child achieving the “triple win” of understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction, so that children move from counting to calculating. Certificates are given out weekly on Friday Celebration assemblies.
By the end of Reception children need to be able to:
- recognise numbers to 20
- order numbers
- know 1 more and 1 less than a number
- add and subtract numbers up to 20
- double and half numbers
- estimate numbers
- know 2D and 3D shapes
- be able to use positional langauge
- Talk about time and money
Topics
Linking to our Talk 4 Writing focus, we will have topics covering the following themes over Summer 1.
- Under the Sea
- Pirates
- The Environment
- Jungles and Rainforest
- The Zoo
Enrichment Opportunties:
- Animal Visit
- Walk to School
- Teddy Bears Picnic
- Pyjama Day
Important Information for Summer 1:
PE- Elm class will have their PE sessions on Monday
PE Uniform:
- Team colour t-shirt
- Plain black shorts
- Black pumps for indoor PE
- Trainers for outdoor PE
- Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather
- Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back
Reading Book Changes
Expectations
It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading.
All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.
As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week.
Each child has an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:
Donaldson- Monday
Seuss- Tuesday
Dahl- Wednesday
Rowling- Thursday
In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings.
Homework Information
This is sent via Dojo each Friday. We have provided a book for children to keep at home to complete their homework in. We ask parents to take a photo and upload the homework so we can see how well children are progressing their learning at home.
For Maths homework we are using Numbots. Your child has been provided with a login to access this. We ask that your child access Numbots for 15minutes across the week.
ClassDojo
Should parents need to contact the EYFS team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way.
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