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

This half term our theme is ‘Minibeasts.’ We will be learning about lots of different types of minibeasts. We will be finding out lots of facts and exploring where they live. At home you could try and make a bug hotel, go on your own minibeast hunt or find out some facts about your favourite minibeast.  

Some of the books we will be looking at this half term will be:

• Mad about Minibeasts by Giles Andreae
• Superworm by Julia Donaldson
• Bug Hotel by Clover Robin
• The Very Greedy Bee by Steve Smallman

Here is a great website to watch some minibeast clips: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/mini-beast-adventure-with-jess