Whiteley Reception

  Friday 28th February This week at school we were excited to walk to the postbox to post our letters.  We hope that they arrive soon!  On our walk, we practised using positional language to describe our journey and the features of our local environment e.g. "We walked past the bus stop", "We went over the stream". We made simple maps to show our walk and use Digimaps to show the route we took. We used google Earth to zoom into our school from space.  We discussed how our world looks from above and identified features.   Phonics This week in phonics we have learnt to read and write words with the phonemes j , v , w and x .  We have learnt the new tricky words me and be - these are words we learn to recognise by sight. Please use the games on your child's bug club account to practise these new sounds.  Please also check your child's reading log to find out which book has been allocated this week to practise these sounds at home.  This is real...

Friday 14th February  This week we have looked at the story 'Rosie's Walk' by Pat Hutchins.  We have learnt about positional language (over, across, through) and used these words to retell the story using story props. Click here to watch 'Rosie's Walk'. This image shows some of the other positional words we have been using this week. We have also been very busy writing letters to our families that we are going to pop into the postbox the week after half term.  Thank you if you have already sent in a stamped addressed envelope. Please ensure that your child's name is written clearly on your child's envelope. If you have not yet done so, please send in the named stamped addressed envelope  straightaway after half term as some children will be walking to the post box on Monday 24th February. Phonics This week in phonics, we have been learning the letters l, ll, s and ss  with a particular focus on letter formation and writing CVC words such as leg, sun and ...

  Friday 7th February This week we have continued to discuss the story of Stanley's stick. Using the sticks we bought to school, we talked about what they could be.  Then we have written a sentence about what we pretended our stick could be.  For example...                                                       The stick is a dinosaur. The stick is a fishing rod. The illustrator of Stanley's stick, Neal Layton, sent a video for the children to watch about how he creates his illustrations. It was very interesting.  Phonics This week in phonics, we have been learning the letters h, b, f and ff  with a particular focus on letter formation and writing CVC words such as hat, bin and fan. Maths This week in maths we have been focusing on the language of 'more than', 'fewer than' and 'have an equal number'. We have compared sets of objec...