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Fielding
Primary School and Nursery
Mind Up Lesson
This week in our Mind Up lesson the children will be doing an activity that is about mindful breathing.
For this activity every child will need a cuddly toy.
In the lesson we will explain to the children what we are doing and why. Once the children have had the lesson they will be able to demonstrate the activity to you at home and together you can enjoy some mindful breathing!
Please could you make sure your child brings in a cuddly toy, (no over-sized teddies), on Friday 22nd March.
If your child is unable to bring one in or forgets, please do not worry, we have some in school that they can borrow for the lesson.
Thank you,
The Reception Team
Boats, boats, boats!
Dear Parents and Carers,
In the final week of term the children will be making boats using junk modelling material. This activity links to our Learning Challenge: Who will you meet in the deep blue sea. The children will be working in pairs to make their boat and they will also be asked to think about what materials will float or sink. Once the boats are made we will be testing them to see which boats float and sink. (No boats will be coming home after this activity!)
Each class will need lots of recycling material to make the boats.
Please start collecting and saving these resources and hand them to your class teacher on Tuesday 26th March – not before.
Here are some examples of what we will need:
Thank you in advance.
The Reception Team
Weekly Learning in Reception
Week commencing: 18.3.24
This week we will be preparing the children for our Helicopter Story sessions.
Helicopter Stories are when children make up a story and the teacher scribes.
The child then gets the opportunity to do some writing linked to their story.
The story is then acted out with some of the class watching and others performing.
The children have experienced this once before and really enjoyed telling their stories and listening to their friends stories.
There is much laughter in these sessions and it gives children the opportunity to see themselves as authors and their stories come to life!
We will begin the week by recapping some familiar stories that have been read to the class many times before. We will use these stories to discuss the features of a story.
A story has:
We will also use a ‘Story S’ to remind the children that every story has a:
The children are familiar with a ‘Story S’:
We have used these to retell a story and sequence the events in a story with the children. The ‘Story S’ helps children to visually see a story from start to finish and how there is an order to a story - beginning, middle and end.
By the end of the week children will start writing their own stories, we encourage them to use their imagination and make up their own stories. Some children find this harder and will copy a familiar story.
Supporting your child at home:
Encourage your child to make up stories using things that interest them.
Your child can start by drawing pictures of character and a setting they like.
Discuss the plot with them – What is going to happen in your story?
Ask your child:
Your child can write a sentence about their story and act it out with the family!
Have an alphabet chart available for your child to refer to when writing:
Next week in English:
We continue with Helicopter Stories.
Maths
Week commencing: 18.3.24
This week in maths we will continue to explore the number 10.
We will practise writing the number 10 correctly.
Children often write ‘01’ instead of ‘10’.
Explaining to children that the position of each numeral in a number is very important and how it can change the meaning of a number if not written correctly e.g. thirteen ‘13’ if written as ‘31’ will be read as ‘thirty-one’.
Writing the numerals in the wrong order is a common error for children in Reception. When children make these mistakes, we show them the correct way to write a number.
We will count 10 in a variety of ways e.g. spots, objects, pictures etc.
Reinforcing the idea that if nothing is added or taken away from a set, the amount does not change.
We will show children spots in a range of formations and ask how they can see ‘10’ e.g. 5+5/ 6+4/ 7+3/ 4+4+2/ 3+3+3+1 etc.
This is a precursor to number bonds for 10 and will help the children to make the connection that 2 or more numbers make up a larger number.
Children enjoy sharing how they see a number and what numbers added together can make ‘10’.
We will use a ten frame and use it show different ways of making 10.
This is a ten frame:
Here is an example of how we will use a ten frame:
In lessons we will reinforce counting strategies, to help with their one to one correspondence and accuracy when counting.
Remind children to:
All these strategies help a child to avoid counting an object twice.
We will look at ways of making 10 using the part-whole model and ten frame.
We will talk about the ‘hidden numbers’ in 10.
These are the number bonds for 10:
Ways of making 10:
0 + 10 = 10
1 + 9 = 10
2 + 8 = 10
3 + 7 = 10
4 + 6 = 10
5 + 5 = 10
6 + 4 = 10
7 + 3 = 10
8 + 2 = 10
9 + 1 = 10
Some children will begin to recall the number bonds for 10 and know the number partners e.g. 4 and 6/ 5 and 5/ 7 and 3 etc.
Supporting your child at home:
Continue to practise writing numbers 1 to 10.
Children often reverse the numbers, this is normal in Reception.
Can your child find different ways of making 10?
Children can get 10 objects to help them partition the amounts and find what two numbers make 10.
Children can use the ten frame and the part-whole model to help them find ways of making 10.
Help your child to see that addition can be done in any order e.g. 6+4 is the same as 4+6, 7+3 is the same as 3+7 etc.
Look at the numbers sentences for number bonds to 10.
Have children noticed a pattern?
Next week in maths:
We will be learning to subtract and take away.
Developing Fine Motor Skills
Preparing for writing in EYFS
They can help build confidence creating shapes, and be really valuable for helping to develop pencil control and steadiness of hand.
Pre-writing activities are the building blocks that develop fine motor skills in young children which lead to good pencil control when they begin letter formation.
Here are some activities you can set up at home that will help your child with fine motor strength and control.
Tearing, scrunching and gluing tissue paper helps children with dexterity, strength and pinching skills.
You can make a sun, a tree or whatever they are interested in together.
Using plastic or wooden knives to cut playdough, pinching playdough and rolling it into balls is another great way to improve children’s hand strength and control.
Using tongs or large tweezers to pick up ANY objects big or small with one hand this helps with the skills needed to use scissors as well as firmly grip a pencil.
Start big like a cotton wool ball and build up to bigger heavier objects.
Reading and Book Bags
At Fielding we follow the Read Write Inc programme.
This assessment has provided us with your child’s reading level.
Your child will receive a reading book.
The type of ‘book’ your child receives will depend on their phonics knowledge.
Some children will focus on learning the sounds of the alphabet.
Some children will receive a sound blending book to help develop their blending skills.
Some children will receive a book called ‘My Phonics Book’. A letter will be sent home with information of how this works.
Some children will receive a reading book.
In addition to this, your child will choose their own picture book.
Your child is not expected to read this book, this book is to be shared with an adult for enjoyment.
All books will be changed once a week.
Please make sure your child brings their book bag to school every day.
Please make sure that you always have the following inside your child’s book bag:
Please look through the reading record, there is lots of useful information inside.
Please sign the reading record every week and write a comment about how your child is progressing with their reading.
Key words
On page 18 there is the list of key words that the children need to learn to read over the year. Every two weeks we will check how your child is progressing with the reading of these words and let you know in their reading record. Please help your child to learn these words.
We will write what key word list your child is on in their reading record.
Home Learning
Every Friday, your child will receive some phonics home learning from their phonics teacher. This must be done at home and does not need to be returned to school.
If you have any further questions please talk to your class teacher.
The Reception Team
Wyndham Road, Ealing, London, W13 9TE