Saplings

Reading at home

Children are expected to read to an adult at home for at least 10 minutes daily.

School Reading Books are sent home daily and will be changed when your child has read them twice, once for decoding and then the second time for comprehension.  Please indicate in the reading diary when you have read with your child so we know that they require a new book.

Please see https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ for more electronic books.

Spelling

Please help your child to practise the letters sounds we have taught in school. Your child will start with Basics 2 and then progress onto basics 3. Please help your child to learn their tricky words at home. They need to be able to read and write these tricky words. You can start with a few words at the beginning and then add a new word in each time. It is progressive so the children will learn basics 2 words first and then move onto basics 3. Some phonics website with free games to have a look at are: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ and https://www.ictgames.com/

Number facts

In Reception children are expected to know the following:

Subitising amounts up to 6

Number bonds to 5/10

Counting up to 20

Ordering numbers up to 20

Doubling numbers up from 1+1=2 up until 9+9=18

Halving and sharing amounts

Telling the time -the hour- o'clock

Weighing objects and measuring length or height

Here are some suggested websites to help you practise…

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

https://www.ictgames.com/

Topic

Animals

In this half term we are staying with our animal’s theme but thinking about farm animals and other wild animals. Including Animals that are kept in Safari Parks and Zoo’s.

You could talk about all these different animals, why do we have farm animals? What are they used for? Why do we keep animals from the wild in zoo’s and safari parks. What is happening to the places they normally live?

What do you know about these animals? Where do they come from, what do they look like?

You could read:

• The tiger who came to tea,
• Giraffes can’t Dance,
• Dear Zoo.
• Rumble in the Jungle
• In the jungle
• Oi! Frog

You could draw a picture of your favourite animal or maybe visit a zoo or a farm, write a list of the animals you saw. What do you know about these animals? What country do they come from originally?

Fact File: Giraffes - CBeebies - BBC