Spring Grove

Welcome to Reception's Class Page

A warm welcome to our Reception Page

Our topic for Spring is 'Around the World'

Click for an overview of the Summer Term:

Reception Newsletter Summer Term 2025

We planted our Sunflower seeds during the Spring Term.

Please remember to take a picture and send in via 'Evidence Me'.

Here are our Learning Logs for Summer 2 - 'Around the World'.

Please remember to take a picture or a video and send in via 'Evidence Me'.

The children enjoy sharing their experiences whilst at home.

Learning log Summer 2

Home Learning Resources

Phonics is a way of teaching children how to read and write. It helps children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one from another in the English language. Phonics involves matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters. For example, the sound k can be spelt as a c, k or ck. Teaching children to blend the sounds of letters together helps them decode unfamiliar or unknown words by sounding them out. For example, when a child is taught the sounds for the letters, t, p, a and s, they can start to build up the words: tap, taps, pat, pats and sat.

Oxford Owl - Essential Letters and Sounds

Essential Letters and Sounds: Information Letter for Parents

How the sounds are taught: Teaching sounds.

How to make sounds into words: Making sounds into words.

How to blend sounds to read words: Blending sounds into words.

Parent video: Sounds for correct pronunciation: Phase 2.

Parent video: Sounds for correct pronunciation: Phase 3.

Reading - Decoding to read - How to blend sounds to read words.

Nelson English - Flashcards.

BBC Bitesize has lots of phonic links to support your child - BBC Bitesize.

Alphablocks has lots of resources to support reading - Blending cvc words to read.

Reading: The more that you READ, the more things you will KNOW.

The MORE that you LEARN, the more places you'll GO. Dr. Seuss

To best support us in teaching your child to read, we ask that you read the decodable text provided by the school four times across the week. Spending 10 minutes a day reading with your child will hugely support them on their journey to becoming an independent reader.

We will be changing children’s books once a week on Friday. This will allow your child to re-read each text several times, building their confidence and fluency. This is especially important as they begin to learn that the sounds within our language can be spelled in different ways.

For children, re-reading words and sentences that they can decode (sound out) until they are fluent (read with ease and precision) is a key part of learning to read. By reading texts several times, children have the greatest opportunity to achieve this fluency.

The texts sent home are carefully matched to the teaching taking place in school. Your child will be practising what they have been taught in school with you at home. We will only ask children to read books independently when they can decode these by themselves.

Any books that are not yet decodable for the children will be sent home as a sharing book. These books will be sent home for you to read with your child, helping us to instil a love of reading from the very beginning of their reading journey. These could be read together with your child reading the words they are able to decode or could be read to your child.

If you have any further questions or queries, please do not hesitate to ask.

To help your child learn to read.

Monster phonics - Free 'e' books - books are fun and engaging. Select a book to enjoy!

Oxford Owl 'e' library for children - Please take a look at the great selection of books to share with your child:

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Maths:

Teddy Numbers - counting and recognising numbers.

Ordering and sequencing numbers

Top Marks Maths Games - Topmarks maths-games/3-5-years/counting

Topic:

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfstir - The Rainbow Fish

Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae - Commotion in the Ocean