Author: Graham, H

Reception
Autumn 1

Settling in
This half term is all about settling in to Reception. We are lucky this year that the whole class moved from Nursery to Reception together, so we have returned to familiar faces and friendships.
We will be settling in to new routines and expectations by:
- getting used to spending a whole day and week at school!
- increasing the length of time we are able to sit on the carpet
- begin to engage with group or whole-class activities for longer periods of time
- join in with carpet times such as stories and singing
- Practising our ‘choose it, use it, put it away’ routine

Maths
We’ll be starting off our maths learning with lots of counting songs and stories, as well as beginning to count objects. We will be developing skills such as counting with 1:1 correspondence, ordering and sorting.

Key texts
We will be developing our sense of self, community and belonging by reading the books and stories:
This is our house by Michael Rosen
Starting School by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
I am too absolutely small for school by Lauren Child
Welcome to our World by Moira Butterfield & Harriet Lynas
All About Families by Felicity Brooks and Mar Ferrero
All About Friends Felicity Brooks and Mar Ferrero

Phonics
We will be beginning Phonics in Week 3 of this half term. We will be using the ‘Little Wandle’ programme to teach letters, sounds and early reading skills such as blending and segmenting.
Look out for the weekly update on Tapestry about our new sounds and how you can help at home!

Tapestry
Thank you for your engagement so far with Tapestry! We hope you are enjoying your weekly updates. You will see more individual updates of your child’s learning in the coming weeks and months when we are all settled in.
Your interactions (even just a quick like) are really useful to us and help us to know that information has reached you or you’ve managed to see the updates—we’d be especially grateful if you could give the ‘memos’ a like; that way we know which parents have received important information.
If you’d like to send us a message, you can get in touch with us privately by adding an ‘observation’.