This Term
Autumn 1 - Emotions
Welcome to Reception! We are so excited to be welcoming all the new children this year.
We know that starting school can bring up some big emotions; excitement, anxiety, happiness, and sometimes even fear. That is why we always begin our school year with the topic unit 'Emotions'. We want children feeling happy, safe, and secure so that they are ready to learn.
The purpose of this unit is to support children’s self-regulation skills and their transition into school. Children will be introduced to the Zones of Regulation and will begin to talk about and explain their feelings using a widening emotional vocabulary.
Children will learn a range of self-regulation strategies to use with support from an adult at first, and then independently as they become more confident and self-aware. Children will be supported to follow school rules and routines, to explore the continuous provision, to form positive relationships with others and to resolve conflicts with peers. They will be supported to dress and feed themselves, as well as to manage their own personal hygiene.
Our big questions that we will be answering over the course of our topic:
1) Can you name the emotions for each zone of regulation?
2) Can you recognise emotions within yourself and others?
3) What strategies can you use to self-regulate?
How can we 'get back to green?'
As always, we will engage with quality texts and visual material to support our learning around our topic. Here are the stories we will be focusing on this half term.
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Stay and Read
Developing a love of reading at an early age will support your child's listening and attention skills, vocabulary development and understanding of the world around them. Your child will be bringing home a book from our 'library' for you to share together at home. This could include talking about what you can see in the pictures, other books that have similar characters, or what you and your child liked or didn't like about the story. We also hold Stay and Read every Friday from 8:45-9am, please join us for this, if you are able, to share in stories with your child.
Drawing Club:
Drawing Club is a special club that promotes confidence in mark making, imagination and writing skills. We use our focus books (as shown above on the page) to teach elements of writing.
The structure drawing club follows is:
Moment 1: Vocabulary Development
Moment 2: Listening to the story
Moment 3: Modelled drawing
Moment 4: Drawing Club. This aspect may be linked to the main character in the book, the setting or adventure time.
If you would like some more information about drawing club, or would like to see your child's work, just ask a member of staff.
PE:
PE will happen every Thursday. Please come to school wearing your sports leggings or trousers - there is no need for the children to get changed at school. We kindly ask you to support your child with taking off and putting on their socks and shoes. The more they practise this at home, the more independent they will become in PE lessons.
Forest School:
Forest School happens every Monday. The time spent in Forest School helps the children explore our wonderful forest school space, and further develop their outdoor learning skills. Our children learn the importance of looking after our environment, alongside lots of knowledge about the world around them. A reminder to send in a pair of wellies to be kept at school.
Phonics and Reading:
We follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds scheme at ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½. All children will bring a reading book home with them. This will begin as a wordless book, which is used to encourage language development first, and then move onto books with simple words and phrases in for the children to decode on their own. Please speak to staff if you have any questions or would like any support with phonics.