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 on a Monday. Please indicate in the reading diary when you have read with your child so we know that they require a new book. Please also help your child practise their word card daily so they can develop their sounding out and blending skills.

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

We will be starting the half term by looking at the life cycle of a frog. We will then move onto ‘Animals around the world’ and talking about which animals would be found in the United Kingdom and those that are found in other places in the world. We will be finding out facts about animals and then writing about how animals have adapted to live where they do.  

At home you could find out about different animals. Can you find out about their habitat and what they eat. Can you sort animals that you would find on a farm and in a zoo? Why do we keep animals from the wild in zoo’s and safari parks. What is happening to the places they normally live?

Texts you can share at home:

• The tiger who came to tea by Judith Kerr
• There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom by James Sellick
• Giraffes can’t Dance by Giles Andreae
• Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae
• Oi! Frog by Kes Gray
• The trouble with tadpoles by Sam Godwin

Here is a great website to find out some animal facts:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/steve-and-aneeshwar-go-wild-giraffe-fact-file