Welcome to the Reception ‘Learn from Home’ section of our page.

This week your child has been given a folder with four things inside:

Homework Book - This week’s homework is stuck inside with two sheets slotted in for Maths. Please email me any pictures you would like to share or if you would like to stick anything in the book, please use 1 page per weekly homework so we don’t run out of pages too quickly!
Home Reading Books - You child may have been sent home with a wordless book. Wordless books are told entirely through their illustrations, they are a brilliant to build important literacy skills, including listening skills, vocabulary and comprehension.
A Reading Diary - To record which book you have read, the date you read it and any comments on how your child found it.
A set of sound flashcards or a set of word flashcards - By next week each child will have a set of individual sound flashcards that they should keep in their folder as we will add to this each week. In addition to this your child may have brought home a set of word flashcards, these will need to be returned each week as we will rotate these between the children each week (After the required quarantine period).

How to share a wordless book (This is also a great way to introduce a book with words - Understand of the characters and story are very important and we can gather lots of clues about this form the pictures).

Spend time looking at the cover and talking about book’s title and based on these two things, make a prediction about the story.

Take a picture walk through the pages. Enjoy the detail in the illustrations, look carefully at the expressions of characters’ faces and the setting. Discuss together what you can see.

Go back through the book for the second time and start storytelling. You could model first to your child, use your imagination to add extra content and details. For example, characters could have different voices etc.

I appreciate for some parents, this information will be something you are used to, but for some of you this will be brand new. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to send me an email.

We have made this video to explain how we sound out the words using ‘Fred Talk’. It is important that the children are using the sounds the letters make rather than the names of the letters. Here is a guide to the pure sounds for your information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXcabDUg7Q&safe=active

Thanks for your continued support,

Miss Lavelle, Miss Neves and Barbara