Dear Parents,  

We have had another busy week at school. On Monday we learned about Diwali. Parul kindly talked to us and showed us some pictures about how she celebrates Diwali with her family. We made clay diya lamps which we are hoping to paint next week before they go home. We created rangoli sand and shape patterns and made and ate delicious chapattis.  

Things we need

We are starting to build up a new junk modelling collection. If you have any empty cereal boxes, inner cardboard tubes, egg boxes, or other cardboard boxes, we would love them to create with. Thank you!

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 and Reading Record 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 ‘z,’ ‘qu’ and ‘ch’.  

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 ‘go ’, ‘no’, ‘to’, ‘into’. Please practise these with your children as these words will be appearing in the reading books.

Dates for your diary 

• Tuesday 10 December – Christmas Nativity  
• Tuesday 17 December – St Mary’s carol service 
• Wednesday 18 December _ Christmas lunch 
• Friday 20 December—Last day of term  

Useful Reminders

Now the weather is colder please make sure your child is coming to school with a cardigan/jumper and a warm coat. A woollen hat, scarf and gloves is a good idea too. 

Please make sure your child has a water bottle every day.

Have a lovely weekend, 

The Reception team.