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Well done Reception - you have made a fantastic start to the school year!

On this page you will find your homework tasks!

Homework update meeting Monday 31st January 2022

Dear children, 

 

Please see below your homework for this week. 

 

Create a piece of artwork to put on display a our Graduation celebration on Monday 18th July 2022. 

 

I look forward to seeing what you create. 

 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Dear Children, 

 

This weekend, please continue to practise your reading every day and practise your red words. 

 

This weekend, I want you to write about your favourite part of your year in Reception. 

 

Have a lovely weekend, 

 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Dear children, 

 

This week, I have sent home set 2 phonics cards, red word cards and a sheet with green words on. 

 

Please use these over the next week to practise your sounds and reading. 

 

Please look at the video below if you are unsure on how to pronounce them. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yln6PpV1G1I

 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Dear Children, 

 

For your homework this week, I want you to draw a picture of you playing at Weston-Super-mare. I would like you to write a sentence about your favourite part of our day.

 

Please bring this in to school so we can share this with your friends. 

 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Dear Children, 

 

Please see below your homework for this week.

 

Phonics

Please follow the videos of Red Words. Please remember we can not sound out red words we just need to know them. 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/Fp7bOKcf/t1pLHLw6

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/NEF04oxk/BpUtDtVU

 

 

Maths 

This week, we have been looking at subtraction. Allow children to have some some objects, small toys, cubes or pasta. 

 

Have a go at completing the following equations. 

 

8 - 2 = 

7 - 6 =

3 - 3 =

7 - 5 =

10 - 9 = 

8 - 8 = 

5 - 4=

4 - 4 =

6 - 2 =

 

Can you come up with your own equations?

 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Dear Children, 

 

Phonics

Please see below a powerpoint with set 2 sounds on. Please read through the powerpoint words over the next week. You may want to pick one sound each day to go through. These are all sounds children have been taught. 

 

Maths

For your maths homework this week, please follow the link below.

https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/apples/

 

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Smith

 

Dear Children, 

 

Please find below your homework for this week. 

 

Phonics 

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/dragons-den    - Phase 2/3

 

Maths 

This week, we have been practising our doubling. Please follow the link below. 

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/reception-doubling-game/

 

RE 

Next week, We will be thinking about Baptism. If you have been Baptised please send in a picture to Miss Smith of that day. This is so we can talk about it during lessons. 

 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

 

 

Dear Children, 

 

Please find below your homework for the next week. 

 

Phonics

Have a go at the following game, select either phase 2 or 3.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure

 

Maths 

Please continue to watch the following video and see if you can recite any number bonds you remember after. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch7KzI3n2Zk

 

For maths, please also continue to order and write down numbers to 10. If you are able to do this, try and order and writ your numbers to 20. 

 

Other

One of the Early learning goals in Reception is for children to be able to use their cutlery correctly. Please practise this at home over the weekend. 

 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Dear Children, 

 

I hope you have enjoyed your first week back after Easter half term. 

 

Please see below your homework for this week 

 

Phonics 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/fpqZJcvw/0opKeWWf

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/5wAzg4Gr/QMJi7dO7

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/Wajfkjoe/i494beFR

 

Maths 

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/addition-to-10

 

Have a fantastic weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Easter break homework 

 

Dear Children, 

 

Over the next half term we are going to be looking at our new topic Sunshine and Sunflowers. We will be planting a range of flowers and vegetables in the outdoor area, making bird feeders and spending lots of time outside. 

 

For your homework over Easter, I want you to create a junk model flower. Use items you might have in your recycling bin to make a flower. 

 

I hope you have a fun and rested Easter break, 

Miss Smith

Friday 25th March 2022

Hello Reception, 

 

I hope you have had a lovely week in school! We have had a super busy day today our sponsored walk for water around the local area and then our mother's day assembly! 

 

I am so proud of you all. 

 

For your homework this week, I would like you to work on our St Alban's 42 challenge. This is to know your full name and date of birth. Maybe if you already know this, you could practise writing it down. 

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Smith 

Friday 18th March 2022 

 

Hello Reception, 

 

I hope you are all well and have enjoyed another eventful week in school. Please see below for your homework this week. 

 

Phonics 

 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/nTfBRMTc/yCFj52Ac

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/02uzvJZh/Zz2my2W5

 

Maths 

Watch the video below

 

https://www.youtubekids.com/watch?v=zPZegz690Mg

Can you find any 3D shapes at home? 

 

Have a lovely weekend! 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

 

Friday 11th March 2022 

 

Hello Reception, 

 

I hope you have had a lovely week in school. 

 

Phonics homework 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/5KqGaO8e/vpGNgOcV

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/B0Z6Fl5M/KmHQ7BVj

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/J1NvsW3i/WMhIYUys

 

Maths homework 

 

Listen to the number pair videos to try and learn some number pairs

https://www.youtubekids.com/watch?v=zija7aVmziY

https://www.youtubekids.com/watch?v=ch7KzI3n2Zk

 

Have a lovely weekend, 

kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Friday 4th March 2022 

 

Hello Reception, 

 

I hope you have enjoyed our first week back after half term and what a busy week it has been! Your very first world book day! I hope you all enjoyed it and all the fun activities that we did. 

 

Please see below for your homework over the next week.

 

Phonics

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/A6BfeqpP/GpwEIDHo

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/QCazpfy6/CWuC3ikP

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/QA69ggU5/cQzHkEv2

 

Maths 

Please continue to practise writing and ordering numbers to 10. Please also practise representing each of these numbers, you could use any objects at home including pasta, blocks, teddies. 

 

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Smith 

Friday 11th February 2022

 

Hello Reception, 

 

We have had a very busy week! We have been raising awareness for Little Hearts Matter and how they help different families. We have had Women and Girls in Science day and Art day! I hope you have all had fun this week. 

 

Phonics 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/n1GUXsdl/ZkYICKGp

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/cZgDqoO2/e7R9hbH3

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/02ah9bId/rdm0iEuo

 

Maths 

For your maths homework, I want you to practise ordering and writing your numbers to 10. 

 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Friday 4th February 2022

 

Hello Reception,

 

I hope you have all enjoyed your week in school! Remember next week is heart week and we will be raising lots of money for Little Hearts Matter.

 

 

Phonics 

 

These are words you have all been reading or have read in RWInc. Please follow the links below.

 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/qnUyWCqO/EAv5Lb03

 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/voWSDa8F/Ht7qEDo3

 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/8VmNGzWV/X3k20Mb5

 

Maths 

For your Maths homework this week, please try to find pairs of items at home. We have been making pairs of items in class all week, can you find any at home?

 

Please find the link to the homework update meeting above. This will start from Monday. 

 

Have a fantastic weekend,

 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

 

 

 

Dear Reception, 

 

I hope you all enjoyed your week especially Fred the Frog's birthday party on Tuesday! 

 

For your homework this week, please follow the links below. 

 

Phonics 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/lKXsA58C/sPUCJa2a

 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/GuhtCnEL/L0rr7jA8

 

Maths 

 

https://www.themathsfactor.com/games/try/?gameid=46&prefix=ZONE&config=IPG_CM_Y1_CA_001,%20support&title=Count%20the%20Yeti%201%20to%2010

 

Have a lovely weekend.

 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception, 

 

I hope you have had a fantastic week in school. This week, we have been learning about spiders and we had a real spider in our class today! 

 

For your phonics homework this week please follow the links below:

 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/RWJFlj3H/FEnPQHNp

 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/G6Yd1IQz/QekECZAC

 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/ulev29TF/xMEkT4cz

 

 

For your maths homework, I want you to represent different numbers to 5 using anything you have at home. Can you represent the number 3 ? How many ways? Can you represent the number 5? How many ways? 

 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith

Hello Reception, 

 

You have worked extremely hard this week! I am super proud!

 

Over the weekend and this next week, I want you to keep practising your sounds. Practise creating 3 letter words using your sound cards and reading them. 

 

For maths, I want you to practise writing your numbers to 10. 

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

 

Stay safe, 

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception, 

 

I hope you have all enjoyed your first week back after the Christmas break, you have all worked extremely hard this week and have been superstars!

 

For your homework this week, I want you to follow the links below to have a game of 'Fred talk' with Fred the Frog!

 

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/A22DYw45/qSIhKgoi

https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/mqGCB8zq/FLJDMsar

 

Can you sound out some items from home? Ask someone to play with you, ask someone at home to sound out a word, can you then blend it together to say the word? 

 

I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception, 

 

Well done for a fabulous Nativity on Friday morning! I am so proud of you.

 

For your homework this week, I want you draw a picture of you from our Nativity performance. Pleas bring this in to school so we can display together. 

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception,

 

On Monday, you will receive your new homework project for the month. Over the next week, I would like you to practise writing your name and going over all of your sounds. You may want to play the blending game with your family too.

'Put your hands on your ch-i-n. Touch your t-oes.'

 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception, 

 

I hope you have enjoyed your week in school. 

 

This week, we have finished learning all of the set 1 sounds. Next week, we will start revisiting them each day. For your homework this week, I want you to make sure that you are going through the sounds each day and have a look around you what can you see? What sound does it start with? Can you write down that sound? Can you sound out that word?

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

 

 

Hello Reception, 

 

I hope you have all enjoyed your week in school. For your homework this week, I want you to think about who helps you at home. We have been learning all about the family of God in class and how Jesus loved everyone. Think about who loves you at home, how can you show them that you love them? You may want to send me some pictures of you showing people you love them! 

 

This week, we have been learning the sounds

sh, 

th, 

ch, 

x, 

z

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception, 

 

For your homework this week, I want you to practise writing our new sounds

r

 j 

 sh 

 h 

You should be practising reading and saying your sounds every day. 

 

Remember you also have your monthly homework ask to complete and your blue book which was sent home with your library book. 

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception, 

 

This week, I have sent home your homework book. This includes your monthly homework task. You have also been sent home a blue book, please read the letter with it to find out what you need to do for this. 

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception, 

 

Well done on working so hard and settling in so well to school over the last half term. 

 

Over half term, I want you to look for things that begin with some of our new sounds, take a picture and send it to me. 

 

The sounds I want you to look for are:

 

d, t, g, o, k, 

 

You might see a family dog over the week or you might see Grandma.

 

Have a lovely week,

 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception, 

 

This week, I want you to practise the four sounds we have been doing in class. 

 

Please bring in or send a picture of your sound practise so I can give you a sticker for your hard work! 

 

i - Down the insects body and a dot for is head. 

n - Down nobby and over his net.

p - Down the plait and over the Pirates face.

g - round her face, down her hair and give her a curl. 

 

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception, 

 

This week, I want you to practise the letters we have been learning in class. 

 

m - mmmmmm - Maisie, mountain mountain

a - a a a a a a - Around the apple and down the leaf

s - sssssssssss - Slither down the snake

d - ddddddddd - Round his bottom, up his tall neck and down to his feet.

 

If you are unsure how to say this sounds then please watch the video below. 

 

RWInc sounds

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

 

 

Hello Reception,

 

We have decided not to send home Reception's homework books yet due to them settling in to school. We will send these home on the 1st of November. 

 

For your homework this week, I would like you to think about what God created and what man has created. 

 

You may want to sort these out at home and take a photo or create a poster.

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Hello Reception! 

 

Well done on your first full week in school and a fantastic prayer service! I am so proud of all of you!

 

For your homework this week, I want you to go on a walk. Have a look around and see what you can find that God has created. You may want to bring in those items to school and put them on our prayer table or you can get Mommy and Daddy to send a picture to reception@stalbanrc.bham.sch.uk. Maybe you could draw a picture of what you found and bring that in too!

 

I hope you have a restful weekend.

 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

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