Dear Parents,  

The children have returned to school with lots of energy and enthusiasm. This week we have been learning all about Bonfire night, why and what we do to celebrate and how to stay safe around fireworks. We have done lots of firework art and enjoyed baking and icing star biscuits.  

Reading Books: Your child will now be coming home with a reading practice book (wordless or with CVC words) every Wednesday. Please bring the book back on Monday. We need the phonics books back on Mondays so we can continue our group reading in class. Thank you!  

Practice Book Reading: If your child is bringing home a book with words in, they may still be decoding some of the words and this is OK. There are lots of ideas in the front and back inside covers of the books. If your child is bringing home a wordless book, talk about the pictures, for example: what can they see? Can they find a c-a-t? What noise does a cat make? 

Here are some things you could be doing with your child at home:

• Please continue to check out Tapestry for daily videos from Beccy and Hayley. If you search #phonics you’ll find all the videos!    
• Yesterday your child will have come home with a sheet of this week’s phonemes.  
• The sounds for this week are ‘ll,’ ‘ff’, ‘ss’ and ‘j’.  
• Please practise them together. You could cut them up and stick them around the house, then go for a hunt to find them. When you find them, say the sound!  
• This week’s tricky words are ‘put’, ‘pull’, ‘full’, ‘as’.  

This week we have been exploring the number five. We learnt the song, 5 Little Peas. Can you remember the words and actions? If you want to listen again, you can do by following this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrjZW_fu_lM

Birthday Celebrations  

When it is your child’s birthday if you would like to donate a wrapped book your child can open it and we can enjoy reading it together. This book will then become part of our class library. There is no pressure to do this but we have found in the past children enjoy coming to the front and sharing their book. If you would like to do this and need some book ideas just email us.

Dates for your diary 

• Tuesday 12 November—Parents meetings (Hazel class) 
• Thursday 14 November—Parents meetings (Hazel class) 
• Friday 20 December—Last day of term

Have a lovely weekend, 

The Reception team.