Reception Class Newsletter Summer Term 1

Dear Parents Hope you enjoyed your break and the Easter
Bunny visited! I cant believe its our last term lets make it
a good one.

Our topics will include: Ways to help your child:

Personal, Social and

Emotional Development. Encourage your child to come into
Settling back into school. school on their own/hang up
Re-establishing rules and their coat/bag..
routines.

Responding in an appropriate
manner to visitors. Talk about acceptable/non-
acceptable behaviour.

Caring for plants and animals Talk about how we care

for/nurture living things.
Grow a plant/seed at home.

Developing greater concentration

and skills to work/play
independently.
Communication and language/
Literacy.
Listening with increased
attention to stories/poems/
visitors.
Responding to visitors with their
pets.
Using a variety of puppets,
propsto create/tell their own
stories.
Continued guided sessions in
literacy.
Continued development of
independent writing and use of
punctuation.
Writing simple words correctly
and sounding out and writing
c.v.c. words.
Using Set 2 sounds in reading and
writing.
Mathematics.
Numbers and counting activities.
Patterns drawn from different
cultures.
Recording numerals.
Work on doubles.
Counting back.
Money to 1.00.
Share stories/books with your
child talk about author/front
coverin context.
Encourage your child to use a
variety of cues when reading
picture/context/sounding out
unknown words
Encourage your child to write in real-
life situations and to use basic
punctuation. Write super sentences.
Have a go at writing familiar words and
sounding out and writing c.v.c. words
cat/cat/bed/cot Write words that
you can sound out use Fred Fingers
and write some tricky words too!
Practice counting in 2s/5s and 10s
forwards/backwards.
Look at patterns in the environment/at
home.
Record numerals at home correct
formation.
Look for doubles i.e. when playing
dominoes.
Count on and back at home.
Let your child use money.
 Talk about the different coins.
Ordinal numbers. Look for situations when ordinal
position occurs i.e. when queuing.

Understanding the World.

Talk about differences.
Sorting plants and animals.
Name the variety of plants and
Looking at the variety to be
animals.
found in living things.
What makes a good pet?
Pets, farm and zoo animals.
Visit a farm.
What is a farm?
Talk about groups that you/your
The farmers day.
child belong to.
Belonging to a
group/class/religious tradition.
Days of the week making a
Discuss what your child does in a
simple time line.
typical week reinforce
Months of the year.
days/names.
Continued work using the
Talk about specific months i.e.
keyboard type our name/use a
when their birthday is
word bank/form simple
Let your child explore the
sentences/captions on computer.
keyboard at home if you have a
computer.
Using a variety of materials to
design and make a farm.
Build and construct at home
refine ideas and models.

Expressive arts and design.

Collaging materials
gluing/arranging/sorting.
Tearing and cutting paper.
Using a variety of media, skills
and techniques to make animals.
Explore and experiment at home. Let your
child paint, draw, collagepictures/models
of animals.
Sing action rhymes/explore how sounds
can be made using everyday items.
Physical development. Go to the park and travel in a
Travelling in different directions. variety of ways.

Throwing and catching. Play outside and practice

Working with a partner. throwing and catching together.

Moving creatively to music/other Have a dance at home!

stimuli.

Dont Forget!
Our P.E. days are Tuesday/Thursday and Friday.

Reading Packs need to be in school every day. Books are changed

twice a week. Try to read little and often at home.

Home Activities Books are sent home on a Monday and collected in

on the following Monday.

Library day is Wednesday (we rely on a volunteer).

Lets keep working together to support your child.

Thank you.