Welcome to our Reception Class Page!
Miss Vogel is our Class Teacher and Mrs Esgate and Mrs Midgley 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
*This week: We are working really hard to hold a pencil correctly and to put on out coats and jumpers by ourselves. Please try this at home.
Reminders:
Harvest Festival Tuesday 19th October 2.30pm
Teddy Bears Picnic Tuesday 19th October 3.30pm-5pm
Celebration Assembly is every Friday 2.50pm (Unless notified on the school calendar). Parents are welcome! I will text you on Thursday if your child is going to be star of the week.
-Please could you label all of your child's uniform
-Make sure they have a water bottle in school (we will send it home every Friday to be cleaned)
-Please could you pay £1 a week for snack
Thank you!
We are Reception!
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!
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,
We loved our Rainbow Challenge day!
Thank you so much!!
Our week in Reception
We drew our own self portraits!
We learnt about the artist Alma Woodsy Thomas. We looked at her patterns and made our own painting.
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!
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
We are reflecting on the
Virtue of Thankfulness
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
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
Expressive Arts and Design
Our Focus this half term:
- portraits
- colour mixing
Key Vocabulary: painting, printing, building, cutting, sticking, ripping, scrunching, tearing.
Our Class Charity
