Reception

Dear Parents/Carers,

We hope you have had a Happy Easter together. 

We have added some home learning projects for you and your child to complete together.  Here are some ideas to get creative and make learning fun. Hope you enjoy them. 

Or you may you like to follow Twinkl's daily sessions/timetable with lots of live videos to support your child with phonics and maths etc. You can share stories and follow the activities.  It's great!

Follow this link. 

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/home-learning-hub 

We are really looking forward to seeing you all soon. 

Love from

The Early Years Team 

CHALLENGE: 

Can you complete the following Scavenger Hunts? 

Have Fun! 

Home - School Learning

Dear Parents & Carers,

We have created an exciting pack of learning activities to support your child at home.

You can access these through

• Purple Mash –www.purplemash.com

Please check your ‘To Do’ list on Purple Mash.  (Login information is attached in packs or your child's reading records)

• Phonics link on Kings Meadow webpage

Click on curriculum folder/English/Phonics

• Class Learning Pack

This includes a variety of activity sheets to practise writing, spelling, maths, reading.  We hope you enjoy them.

• Websites

Always review the sites ahead of time so that you are able to help your children find the best resources available within the sites. Some offer a great number of games, songs, stories, videos etc. so it is important to know the site well in order to support and develop your child’s learning.

 https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-prek-k.html

Choose a story/topic and complete the activities.

www.busythings.co.uk

Excellent site built around the 7 areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation

Stage. You can access a free 7 day trial but you need to subscribe after this period to access the content – various subscription packages available.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

Great site with some free phonics games

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

Many games often recognised by children from their favourite programmes.

Links to particular cbeebies games from areas of learning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories

cbeebies stories and rhymes.

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/

Interactive books and reading activities to share with your child at home.

http://www.funwithspot.com/

New and improved! Try creating your own Spot story.

www.sebastianswan.org.uk

Books for reading together with links to understanding of the world (good for natural science).

http://www.ictgames.com/

Some excellent numeracy and literacy resources

http://www.ictgames.com/looCoverWriteCheck/LCWC_demo/index.html

Good for spelling high frequency and tricky words!

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

Lots of maths and literacy games

www.boowakwala.com

Many games and songs including those relating to festivals.

www.poissonrouge.com

Many delightful games. Spend some time exploring!

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=37

Games of varying quality to support different areas of learning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/

The Little animals’ activity centre - plenty of good quality activities to support learning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml

The Little animals’ activity centre – stories

www.abc.net.au/children/play

Ideas For Vocabulary Parade!

• Beautiful
• scared
• happy
• handsome
• funny 
• happy 
• frustrated 
• excited 
• strong
• brave

Get creative... we look forward to seeing your ideas! 

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGRV_enGB751GB751&q=vocabulary+parade+ideas+eyfs&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1wsbfuvHnAhUBuHEKHYRuCpUQsAR6BAgKEAE&biw=1920&bih=1052

Welcome to Reception 2019! 

We are really looking forward seeing you all on Thursday 5th September 2019.

We hope you had fun sprinkling your 'ready confetti' 

You will meet your new teachers... 

Miss. Yates - Class Teacher 

Mrs . Lightfoot - Teaching Assistant 

Mrs. Mawdsley - Teaching Assistant 

Termly Newsletters

We are going to have so much fun learning lots of new things.  We will be sending out termly

 Reception newsletters to keep you up to date with our creative topics and planning. 

Home School Diary:

To help you and your child settle into school life, your child will have a weekly home/school diary for the first six weeks.   We will write to you to share your child's achievements, progress and celebrations. 

Please reply and return back to us by Wednesday each week.  

Reading Books: 

We love to read! 

We listen to individual readers as much as possible.  Please complete your child's reading record, sign and date to let us know if he/she has read.  We will then change your child's reading book every

Monday and Thursday 

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PE Kits: 

We encourage our children to be as independent as possible - please practise getting dressed and undressed independently.  This will really help them during PE and dance sessions.   

Name Labels: 

Please label ALL items of clothing - thank you! 

If you have any worries or concerns - please come and speak to speak to the Reception Team.