Reception

 Welcome

to our

Year R Page

            Polar Bear Class                  Narwhal Class                   Seal Class              Mrs Rendall/Mrs Pleshette                                 Miss Gilbert                       Miss Street /Mr Shearsmith                 Mrs  Milne                                    Miss Rimmer/Mrs Howell                        Miss Lodge

 Next Half Term's Topic:

To The Rescue!

Fun with Phonics!

This half  term we are continuing to use our letters to read and write simple words, captions and sentences. 

The big red bus has had to stop.

We have learnt all of our alphabet sounds and have also learnt the following 'digraphs' (2 letters which make one sound)

qu ch sh th ng nk ck

Wonder Words

Keep on practising these at home. Watch out for those red tricky words! Remember you can't sound them out! 

Magical Maths

This half term in maths we are focusing on:

*addition        *number bonds        *2d and 3d shapes  

Ask your child's teacher for ideas to support this at home.

Tricky Word Games

Click on to this fabulous web page full of ideas for playing games with those 'tricky words' which don't follow the rules. We call them 'sight words' because you have to learn them by just looking at them...  https://sightwords.com/sight-words/games/

Here are the words we learn in year R...

I the no go to he she we me be you

all are her was they my

Getting Ready to Write

 The children are practising how to hold their pencil correctly.

This is how we practise holding our pencil here at Leesland...

Try this little trick at home to help with pencil grip. Place a pom pom in your child's hand and get them to grip it with their two fingers - whilst holding their pencil!

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to see some of the things we have been busy doing in Year R...

Busy Bee Time  

Learning together through play!

The children love choosing their own ways to learn, explore and challenge themselves - and so do we!

            Why don't you try these at home?

Useful website links you can use at home...