Reception class lays the foundation for a child's future academic skills. With this in mind, lessons must be both basic and creative. Use stories or rhymes about numbers. This will generate interest through creative word usage and narratives while feeding them information. Alternatively, take a more orthodox approach by assigning number activities, such as number identification and counting exercises, to the students. In both cases, start with the numbers zero to 10. As the students progress, incorporate the numbers 11 to 20 into the lessons.
Language arts involve exercises in areas like writing, comprehension and reading. Your writing lessons can consist of basic words, such as the students' names. Have each student writer her name on a piece of paper with colored crayons and post the sheets on the wall. Everyone's name will be visible and the children can display their skills at the same time. For comprehension, read the class a simple story and prepare some questions about the characters or plot. To enhance the reading experience, ask the students to come up with their own stories and allow them to recite their narratives to the class.
Art lessons incorporate activities like drawing, music, dance and role-playing as forms of expression. Ask the students to express how they feel in the form of a picture. Introduce them to dance and music by letting them listen to various tunes and dance in accordance with their interpretation of the piece. Role-playing lessons can focus on practical situations, such as showing kindness, sharing and conflict resolution. Set the students into small groups, each with a different scenario, and ask them to act out how they would deal with the situation. Use role-playing scenarios to teach subjects like cooperation, manners and how to properly express feelings.
Warm up your class by having the children imitate butterflies. Ask the students to fly as far away as possible, with their arms outstretched and flapping like wings. Follow by telling the students to fly as low to the ground as possible. Alternate between these two directions. This will warm up their arms and backs while increasing their heart rate. Relay races help build endurance while promoting teamwork. Divide the class into four lines and place a bucket of bean bags 20 feet in front of the teams. The first student in line runs to the bucket, grabs a bean bag and tags the next team member in line. The first team that collects one bean bag per person wins.