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Reception Worksheets

Starting school is the most important time in a child’s life. Give your children the best possible start with these amazing Reception worksheets. Our amazing worksheets cover topics from counting to ordering and phonics to tricky words. Download Now!

Reception English Sheets:

• Free Phase 2 tricky words worksheets
• Free Simple Sentence Writing Picture prompts
• The three Billy Goats Gruff Literacy activities
• The Frog Prince Activities
• Days of the week flashcards
• Sight Words Flashcards

Reception Maths worksheets:

• Subtraction Worksheets
• Addition Worksheets
• Math activities with unifix cubes

Reception Homework

Within Reception, children are given homework on a weekly basis. This will include weekly spellings / words to learn and maths work. Parents are asked to read with their children each night, if possible.

The below resources are based on word-level work taught during Reading and Spelling Workshop Lessons.  Each week, from just before Christmas, children are introduced to new letter sounds (‘Sounds We Know…’) and then learn how to read and write them by ‘segmenting’ and ‘word building’ (‘Words to Read and Write…’).  Children are also taught ‘Tricky Words’, which they need to memorise or learn ‘by rote’.  Please speak to our Reception teachers for more information about this or how you can help extend your child’s learning further.

Remember … If you have any questions about homework see the class teacher.

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Reception English

Help your child develop their English skills in Reception, with hundreds of useful articles and Reception English worksheets that will support learning at home.

As your child prepares for reading and writing, discover activities and games that will foster vital speaking and listening skills , introduce the phonics system and practise handwriting .

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Reception english learning journey.

Work through the worksheet we recommend each week as part of the Reception English Learning Journey and over the course of the year your child will cover all the key topics in the curriculum for their school year – including the relevant handwriting, reading and writing skills. By following the programme, which closely mirrors what your child is being taught in school, you’ll quickly be able to spot any topics that your child hasn't fully grasped and reinforce learning that is happening in the classroom at home. Your child will feel more confident in their own abilities and you’ll know you are giving your child the very best chance of succeeding in school.  

Is your Reception child's English learning on track?

In just under a year your four- or five-year-old will learn to read and write, making giant literacy leaps and laying the foundations of all their future learning. Marvel at their progress and identify any areas they need extra support and practice in at home with our Reception English Progress checks . Our Reception English Progress checks are designed to help your child practise reading and blending sounds, writing letters and structuring simple sentences. Each term’s check consists of 20 questions and a total of 20 marks. Work through the questions with your child and make sure you read lots of traditional tales to help you prepare!

The Nursery and Reception Activity eBook

This bumper eBook of carefully crafted, interactive activities is ideally suited for parents of children in the earliest stages of their education. With 60 bright, entertaining and beautifully illustrated activities, all with easy to follow guidelines, this book is perfect for getting 3-5 year olds on the road to learning fun. The activities are grouped together by 10 themes – from dinosaurs to the farmyard, via nursery rhymes and ‘people who help us’. Each activity is beautifully illustrated and comes with any accompanying worksheets or other resources (like board games) you might need to make the most of it. With the emphasis on fun, interactive activities that we can enjoy with our young children, The Nursery and Reception Activity eBook is packed full of brilliant activities, games, songs, rhymes and more to make learning a real delight.

Fabulous Phonics

Learning to read is all about phonics these days, so if you don't know your phonemes from your digraphs our  phonics learning pack is for you. You'll get a complete overview of how and why phonics is taught, as well as teacher tips to help you make phonics learning part of your child's everyday life and 50 printable games and activities to put the theory into practice.

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Early Reading & Phonics Homework/ Support Sheet- Autumn 1 (Reception)

Subject: English

Age range: 3-5

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26 November 2024

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Reception Homework

For many parents, homework is the only picture they get of what their child does at school. For this reason, Hamilton have put a great deal of effort into writing suitable, fun and home-friendly activities for children and parents to share together. Children will benefit and so will parents and teachers!

The activities rehearse core literacy skills that you may wish children to practise or keep on the boil. Read our English homework blog for more advice about using them.

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Hear and say the initial sounds in words and understand which letters represent those sounds by playing an animal card game (3 sheets).

Hear and say the initial sounds in words and start to understand which letters represent some of the sounds looking particularly at dinosaur actions beginning with the letter sound 'd' (2 sheets)

Hear and say the initial sounds in words and start to understand which letters represent some of the sounds by looking at dinosaur pictures (2 sheets)

Use imaginative role-play and movement to move like a dinosaur using the dinosaur pictures and action words for ideas (3 sheets).

Use talk to organise and clarify thinking to describe dinosaurs by playing I-spy with dinosaur toys or pictures (2 sheets).

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Reception Homework

Today we have been looking at making pairs! We learnt that a pair meant a set of two. We matched up socks into pairs and thought about how many pairs we may have. We looked at odd numbers and how you cannot make pairs without having one odd sock. Feel free to put their pairing skills to the test when emptying the washing to match up those socks!

This week we have been looking at the children’s knowledge of numbers up to 5 and beyond. We have been blown away by how well the children are subitising, counting and combining amounts to make numbers. We have also been using the dominoes to add amounts together and match numbers.

There is an app created by White Rose Maths called ‘1 minute maths’. This is ideal to practise quick recall of number facts with your child. We would love to see any pictures of the children taking part in these activities on their tapestry profile!

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/1-minute-maths

We will be continuing our work on numbers up to 10 next week!

5 little frogs

This week we have been consolidating our knowledge of numbers up to 5. We have been comparing numbers, combining numbers and working out how many are missing. The children have been using the number song ‘Five little Frogs’ to do this and we have had lots of fun!

This week, we have been talking about years and months. We have looked at how many months there are in a year and we have sung the song below to learn their names and the order of them.

Homework in Reception

In reception, we encourage our parents/carers to support their child’s learning at development at home through the use of fun and engaging actitivties. We will sometimes set homework tasks using Tapestry so that you can upload photos/ videos of your child completing them.

Though we send no formal homework home, we will send home sheets that include the sounds we have learnt during the week with practise activities on them.

As a school, we expect all our children to be reading at home. We send home the children’s phonics book on a Wednesday/ Thursday for you to practise at home for the week to embed their phonic knowledge and practise their decoding and comprehension skills. Please ensure that you write in your child’s diary each time that you hear them read.

Here are some useful, fun links that you can use to support your child’s learning:

Little Wandle phonics- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

Fine motor dough disco – https://www.youtube.com/c/SpreadTheHappinessTV

Gross motor cosmic kids- https://www.youtube.com/c/CosmicKidsYoga

Numbots- https://play.numbots.com/#/intro

White rose minute maths app- https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/1-minute-maths

Our first full week.

Good afternoon. It has been a super first full time week in Reception.

We have been learning s a t p and blending in phonics.

Further phonics updates will be on tapestry next week when we have uploaded parent e-mails to the system.

In Maths, we have been showing each other how good we are with our counting.

We are talking about our families, who lives in our house, our special people and how special we are.

We have also been doing dough disco to help strengthen our fingers ready for writing.

A lot of children have said they’d like to show you their dough disco moves so here is a link to it so you can practise together at home.

Dough Disco

Homework in St George’s!

In Reception at St George’s, we use the app Tapestry to communicate with parents, upload observations and assessments and share photos of what your child is doing in school. We use this to regularly set small tasks which you can do at home, you can send us photos and videos on Tapestry which helps to develop and maintain home-school links and helps your child’s development.

We are in the process of setting up Tapestry accounts and information of how to log on and access will follow soon.

Maths week beginning 4th July

This week in maths we have been learning all about sharing! The children have learnt how to share equally and check carefully to find the answers. We have also explored what happens when a number doesn’t share equally and have introduced odd and even numbers.

Share this video with your child and see if they can remember odd and even numbers!

We have worked very hard this year learning all our numbers to 10 and beyond. We now know how to make numbers by combining or taking away amounts, how to put numbers in the right order and how teen numbers are made up. For the last few weeks, we will be focussing on problem solving using all of our number skills.

To 20 and beyond- week two!

This week we have continued our work on numbers beyond 10. We have introduced subtraction at the start of this week and played games whilst the children discussed numbers in relation to the words ‘fewer’ and ‘less’.

We have also looked at really knowing the numerical order of numbers 11-20. We have looked at missing numbers as well as ordering the numbers looking carefully.

We have attached some activity ideas sheets for you to support your child’s learning at home. Remember- if your child does something amazing, please remember to upload it to Tapestry so that we can share in their success!

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