Whiteley Reception

  Friday 23rd May This week in Reception has been so exciting! All of our eggs hatched into ducklings. The children have loved observing them, holding them and helping to look after them. We have been developing our Understanding the World (Science) learning, making careful observations and using our words to describe and write about what we can see.  We hope that your child has enjoyed the experience and told you all about it! Phonics This week in phonics, we have been revising all the phase 2 and phase 3 sounds we have learnt so far. This week's sounds are ai, ee, igh and oa. We have also been revising all of the phase 2 and phase 3 tricky words. Click here to listen to the Phase 2 tricky word song Click here to listen to the Phase 3 tricky word song Maths This week, we have revisited the concept of 'comparison'.  The children have thought carefully about where numbers to 10 are in relation to each other thinking carefully about which is more or less. We have used the l...

Friday 16th May   This week at school, we have had a very exciting time!  We received an incubator full of eggs for us to hatch! We found out about animals that hatch from eggs and made predictions about what we thought our eggs might contain. Phonics This week in phonics, we have ben revising all the phase 2 and phase 3 sounds we have learnt so far. This week's sounds are ch, sh, th and ng. We have also been revising all of the phase 2 and phase 3 tricky words. Click here to listen to the Phase 2 tricky word song Click here to listen to the Phase 3 tricky word song Maths This week, we have been revising our knowledge of composition.  We have looked at numbers 6-9 using the '5 and a bit' structure and then we have begun to explore how 10 is composed e.g. 10 can be composed of 2 parts. Here are some examples... 10 is made of 2 and 8, 8 and 2 make 10 10 is made of 9 and 1, 9 and 1 make 10 Reading challenge Well done to those children who have completed the first part of the...

    Friday 9th May It has been lovely to congratulate children on completing their first 10 reads for our home reading challenge.  Please continue to hand these in and we will give out the stickers for completing the first part. This week week we have been thinking about celebrations and why they are special. We have then learnt about the Jewish celebration of 'Shabbat' and have thought about the similarities and differences with other celebrations.  You might like to talk to your child about celebrations you take part in with your family.  Maybe look back at some photos. Do all people share those celebrations? Do all children celebrate in the same way? How do different children celebrate their birthdays?  Phonics This week in phonics we have revisited the phase 3 sounds  y, z, zz, qu We have practised writing words and sentences using these sounds. This week's book to read on  Bug Club  to practise these phonemes is ' Chick gets lost'. Pleas...

 Friday 2nd May   This week, we have continued to read stories written by the author Catherine Rayner. We have thought about how the different animals move (penguins, lions, giraffes, crocodiles, tigers and bears).  We thought about words that would be good for describing how the animals move and how they look.  We used these words to write sentences to describe the animals e.g. The penguin waddles and has soft feathers. Phonics This week in phonics we have begun to revisit the phase 3 sounds with a greater emphasis on writing words containing these sounds.  This week we have revisited j, v, w, and x.    We have practised all of the phase 3 tricky words so that we can work towards quicker sight recognition. Click here to listen to the phase 3 tricky word song. Maths This week, we have revisited the concept of subitising - instantly seeing how many objects are in a group without having to count them. We have used our subitising skills alongside a tens ...