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Reception Class Newsletter Spring 1 2017

The newsletter provides an overview of the topics and activities that will be covered in the reception class this spring term, including personal and social development, communication and language, mathematics, understanding the world, expressive arts and design, and physical development. It also lists ways parents can help their children at home by talking about feelings, reading together, and exploring shapes, vegetables, and the natural world. The newsletter concludes with reminders about PE days, reading packs, library day, and working together to support the children.

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Reception Class Newsletter Spring 1 2017

The newsletter provides an overview of the topics and activities that will be covered in the reception class this spring term, including personal and social development, communication and language, mathematics, understanding the world, expressive arts and design, and physical development. It also lists ways parents can help their children at home by talking about feelings, reading together, and exploring shapes, vegetables, and the natural world. The newsletter concludes with reminders about PE days, reading packs, library day, and working together to support the children.

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Reception Class Newsletter Spring Term 1

Dear Parents Happy New Year! Hope you all had a lovely
Christmas and Father Christmas brought some super
presents.

Our topics will include:


Personal, social and
emotional development.
Feelings.
Working together making animal
homes problem solving.
Communication, language and
literacy.
Reading/sharing Percy stories.
Sounds work :
ay ar ng
Three letter words.
Mathematics.
Positional language
Go on a Treasure Hunt.
2D/3D shapes.
Days of the week Percys
Week.
Addition/subtraction.
Size/capacity.

Ways to help your child:

Talk about our feelings.

Continue to read at home and


work
on letters and sounds - Set 2

Talk about/look for shapes at


home.

Understanding the World.


Learning about park animals and
their habitats.
Nocturnal animals/hibernation.
Dress up as animal from the park.
Growing /caring for plants/living
things.
Exploring materials
Sand/water
Compost/gravel.
Looking at vegetables
making soup/hot potatoes.
Making animal homes.
Use Paint program to draw
characters from Percy stories.
Use a digital camera.
Create a bar chart.
Weather/seasons changes.
Bird watching/use binoculars.
Expressive arts and design.
Painting/collage characters from
the stories.
Making Percys shirt patterns.
Using musical instruments.
Singing songs/rhymes.
Physical development.
Balance using equipment to
make an obstacle course.
Moving/dance animals in the
park.
Treasure Hunt.
Importance of exercise.

Visit a park.
Look at vegetables at home/in
the shops/market.
Grow a plant at home.

Sing songs/learn rhymes.

Role Play.
The Shed.
Create a park in outdoor area.
Welly Walks.
Explore environment.
Watching/listening for birds.
Visits/Visitors.
Percy Park Keeper.

Dont Forget!
Our P.E. days are Tuesday/Thursday and Friday.
Reading Packs need to be in school every day. Books are now changed
once a week. Try to read every day at home.
Library day is Wednesday (we rely on a volunteer).
Lets keep working together to support your child.

Thank you!

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