WEEKLY OVERVIEW - 15th November ' SHADOWS'

TOPIC - 'Let it shine'

This week we will be continuing with our topic 'Let it shine' by looking at how shadows are formed, discovering if shadows can move and how they move. We will be measuring shadows, drawing around our own shadows and then creating shadow puppets for our own class puppet show at end of the week.

PHONICS

We will continue to practice all phase 2 sounds we have learned so far and then we will be introducing the new sounds j,v,w,x we will be looking at the name of the letters as well as the sounds they make. We will be practising blending to read words, segmentation to spell words
and revising high-frequency words such as mum, dad, is, it, in, on, can and the trying to
read sentences using the letters we have introduced this week. The tricky words we will be going over this week will be is no, go, I, the.

NUMERACY

We will continue to use numicon to help support the children to understand the value of a teen numbers. Introducing place value by investigating that teen numbers always have 1 ten along with various units, using numicon as a visual tool to explain this. We will be practising our number formation, looking closely at the discrimination of our numbers (making sure we get our numbers the correct way round). Counting in 2's, 10's and forwards and backwards in 1's. We will be combining two groups of numbers to create a larger number. Recognising and ordering numbers 1 to 20. In Numeracy linked to our topic we will be touching on time sequencing the days of the week and months of the year and linking this learning to the seasons.

SEAL

We will be discussing how to be a good friend and how we should refuse to join in with unkind behaviour, and the tools we can use to deal with difficult situations.

Singing

We will be learning our Christmas songs ready for our Christmas concert and practising some of our old favourites (not the Boa Constrictor song)....

It sounds like we will be having another action packed week, we are glad you all had a good time at our open day we certainly enjoyed having you all in for the day!! See you Monday morning!!

The Reception Team