Welcome to our Reception Class Page!
Miss Vogel is our Class Teacher and Mrs Esgate, Mrs Midgley and Mrs Murray are Reception's teaching assistants.
Mrs Howgate will be teaching Reception on Thursday afternoons
You can contact me on: j.vogel@st-josephs-brig.calderdale.sch.uk
For School events check the School Calendar: https://www.stjosephsbrighouse.org.uk/calendar-1
Uniform information: https://stjosephsbrighouse.sites.schooljotter2.com/parents-carers/catholic-care-worker
Reception moving to Year 1!
Thank you for being such a wonderful class, we have had so much fun and we are so proud of all your learning. If you would like to do any home learning over the holiday, then please:
- Read as much as you can
- Practise letter formation
- Write sentences using a capital letter, finger space and full stop
- Have a go at working with numbers up to 20 and do lots of practical adding and takeaway, to help you understand place value.
Have a wonderful summer!
Our Topic: Why do you love me?
This half term we will be learning about ourselves and others. We will be learning:
- about caring for ourselves and others
- emotions and feelings
- what makes us special and unique
- the role of family and carers
- growing
- the 5 senses
Phonics
Our focus this half term: Phase 2 phonics
We will be learning 4 sounds a week.
If your child is finding a sound tricky look at books with the sound in or play some games e.g Bingo, Snap.
You can search the sound and Geraldine the Giraffe on YouTube for phonics lessons.
Phase 2 Sounds
Maths
Our Focus this half term:
- Counting numbers to 5
- comparing numbers to 5
- Adding and taking away up to 5
Challenges: https://nrich.maths.org/public/topic.php?group_id=73
Maths Games: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
Key Vocabulary: Comparing, adding, altogether, subtracting, equals, more than, less than,
The Reception class learn from focused activities (around 20 minutes) and then they get to play in the learning environment.
Our Areas of Learning:
- Religious Education
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Communication and Language
- Physical Development
- Literacy
- Maths
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts nd Design
Literacy
Our Focus this half term:
- Recognising phase 2 sounds
- writing lowercase letters
- Listening to stories and then talking about what happened in the story
- Describing characters in stories
Our Stories are: Guess how much I love you, The Selfish Crocodile, Paper Dolls
Reception Spellings
Our song for the year is the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0iP6j6nhjY&list=RDk0iP6j6nhjY&pp=QAA%3D&safe=tr
Expressive Arts and Design
Our Focus this half term:
- portraits
- colour mixing
Key Vocabulary: painting, printing, building, cutting, sticking, ripping, scrunching, tearing.
Our Class Mission Statement
We will always be kind and helpful.
We will always think about other people, share and listen.
We will always try our hardest.
We will be good leaders!
Understanding the World
Our Focus this half term:
- all about me
- ourselves and our family
- the 5 senses
Key Vocabulary: ourselves, body, growing, senses, family
New Reception!
We cannot wait to meet you all on Friday 3rd September 1.15pm-3.15pm, non- uniform.
We are so excited for you to see your new classroom and meet your new friends.
Have a great summer!
Religious Education
Our Focus this Half Term: God's World
We will learn about God's creation and his love for all of us.
Key Vocabulary: God, creation love, Family, prayer, worship
Our Virtues : Perseverance and Resilience
Websites:
Maths Games: https://www.coolkindergarten.com/math/subitizing-adding/
Phonics Games: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ Now free again! Login: Jan21 Password: home
Maths Games: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting
Reading books: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
All subjects: https://www.purplemash.com/sch/stjosephshd6
All subjects: https://www.starfall.com/h/index-kindergarten.php?mg=k
Our Class Charity
