Reception

Reception Class

This term our topic is …

How Do You Scare A Dragon?

We will be thinking about dragons and castles. We will be focusing on the story ‘George and the Dragon.’

Think about:

What do dragons look like? What features do they have?
What food do you they eat? Where do they live?
What are dragons scared of?
What is a castle? Have you ever visited a castle? What do they look like? What features does a castle have?

This half term we will also be learning about the Shakespeare play, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’

This half term, we will be thinking about:

Writing our friends names, starting with a capital letter.
Forming the letters we have learnt using their correct letter formation.
Writing lists using initial sounds.
Using our phonic knowledge to help us segment and blend CVC word e.g. c-a-t.
Forming the letters we have learnt using their correct letter formation
Writing lists using initial, middle and final sounds.
Writing a simple sentence – using a capital letter, finger spaces and full stops.
Using our phonic knowledge to help us segment and blend CVC word e.g. c-a-t.
Beginning to recognise tricky words (red words)
Counting forwards and backwards to 10.
Recognising, ordering and writing numbers to 10.
Exploring number facts to 10.
Practise our ‘subitising’ skills – develop our ability to instantaneously recognise the number of objects in a small group without the need to count them.

Extra activities to try at home:

We are working hard to practise our blending skills for reading. Practise blending using the Phase 2 games ‘Buried Treasure’ and ‘Dragons Den’ (Sets 1-4):

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2

In Reception, we love reading!