This week in Reception, we have continued with our topic on dinosaurs, which the children are thoroughly enjoying. They have loved comparing the different sizes and seeing it brought to life on screen – they couldn’t believe how big the Argentinosaurus was! We have introduced carnivores and herbivores and the children have identified the features that make them meat or plant eaters. In English, we have been labelling the different parts of a T-Rex or Triceratops and writing a sentence to describe them. The children have been ambitious and started to include adjectives in their writing. In maths, we have developed our understanding of grouping, including sharing even and odd numbers between two groups. We also built a ‘doubles town’ to play with and explore doubles up to 10. In free learning, the children have been using writing frames to describe dinosaur pictures. They have made a dinosaur world with the loose parts and created fantastic dinosaurs on the light box using shapes. In the Creation Station, the children have been busy colouring dinosaur patterns and making dinosaurs with our junk modelling resources, as well as using playdough to build the dinosaurs on the playdough mats. In the Learning Garden, we have been playing red word hopscotch and are eagerly waiting for the sun to make an appearance so that we can practise some dinosaur shadow drawings! This term, the Year 5 children will be paired with some Reception children for reading practice. It has been heart-warming to see the older students being nurturing, while the younger ones enjoy reading and sharing stories together.

          

  

  

 

Key messages:

• To review the phonics sounds that your child has been learning, please visit the phonics website: https://sites.google.com/thevineyardschool.org/phonicsthevineyard/reception 

• Please continue to give us donations of clean recycling to add to our junk modelling as we use it throughout the year - egg boxes, small boxes, toilet rolls etc. 

• Vineyard Adventurers will be continuing; please make sure children come in their PE kit with long trousers to cover their legs, with some wellies and a waterproof coat. If they have waterproof trousers, please send them in too.

• Monday 15th July 2.55-3.10pm - Reception family story time. We would like to invite you to come and listen to a story being read by your class teacher with your child.