Squirrel Class - Year R
Welcome to Squirrel Class (Year R).
Teacher : Mrs Hickman
Teaching Assistant: Miss Menzie
Don't forget to check out Tapestry for learning updates.
Please remember to name everything (including shoes)
Useful Information
This term our main aim is ensuring all the children feel settled within the school and our routines.
PE day: Friday
Please remember to come into school in your PE kit on these days, as well as removing earrings and tying back long hair.
Maths: Over the coming term, we will be exploring the numbers up to 5, with a particular focus on number bonds and subitising. Subitising is the ablity to recognise how mangy objects are in a small group without needing to count them one by one. We will learn the phase, don't count, say the amount.
There are lots of simple ways you can support your child's maths learning at home through everyday activities. You could:
- point out number you see around you, such as house numbers, signs or numbers on buses.
- Look at small groups of objects and ask, 'how many can you see?' trying to encourage the children to subitise
- Explore number bonds to 5, such as 2 and 3 make 5
Reading books: The children will receive a sharing book within the first 3 weeks. These are not for them to read alone but for you to share with them to promote reading for pleasure. They may then receive a picture book to continue to build their pleasure for reading or a blending book which will match your child's ability.
I have attached a link with support on how to support your child with reading at home https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabBooksComingHome
Phonics (Little Wandle)
Autumn Term
During the Autumn term we will be learning phase 2 sounds and throughout the term will be moving onto blending.
You can practice your phonics and blending while playing games on this website https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
You do not need an account as there are a few free games, but if you wish to set up an account, it is free, and you will have access to more games to play. Please focus on phase 2.
You will receive a phonics pack in your child's bag from school.
Their pack contains focus phonic sounds that we have learnt that week, as well as some tricky word cards.
Please spend some time with your child to go over these sounds and how we write these.
They may use the following words when talking about their phonics learning:
- phoneme (the sound it makes)
- grapheme (the written letter/s)
There is also a booklet of all the phase 2 and 3 sounds that they will be learning with the corresponding writing rhyme. Please encourage the use of these rhymes when your child is practising the letter formation.
This does not have to be done with pen and paper. They could practice writing the graphemes with paint, in flour, mud, sand, or even ketchup! Feel free to get creative with this, so it suits what you have at home but so it can also be an enjoyable task for you to do together.
You may want to go on a sound hunt and find objects that start with our focus phonemes (e.g. s- sun, soup, slipper). This could be done around the home, garden, on a walk, or even during your food shop!
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We do go through and teach these sounds throughout the week, but the power of additional home practice is very beneficial, so we do encourage this additional exposure to their learning as much as possible.
If you would like to check or go through any of this together, please don't hesitate to ask. The staff in school are always happy to help.
Please share photos/ videos of your home learning on tapestry. We would love to see how they are doing with this.
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