Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, air, ure & ear.

Communication and Language

Using talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas feelings and events by sequencing the life cycle of a caterpillar & the hungry caterpillar story.

Physical Development

Uses a pencil and holds it effectively to form recognisable letters, mostly which are correctly formed. Children will be writing each other others names next to the month they were born to complete a birthday survey.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants interests and opinions through talking about what we need to keep healthy and help us grow. Looking at what a caterpillar needs to grow & comparing the similarities & differences of what we need to grow.

Literacy

Attempting to write short sentences in meaningful contexts by writing three facts about a caterpillar/butterfly in sentences.

Mathematics

Ordering and sequencing familiar events & using everyday language related to time. The children will be ordering the days of the week & months of the year in the correct order.

Understanding the World

Showing care and concern for living things and the environment, the children will be watering the plants/flowers outside in the playground.

Talking about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects. Children will be looking at cocoons & talking about what happens to the caterpillars how they change into butterflies.

Expressive Arts and Design

Playing alongside other children who are engaged in the same theme by role playing the hungry caterpillar story.

The children will also be making concertina caterpillars & cotton reel painting caterpillar.

Home Learning

Talking about the months of the year & what month they were born & what months their family members were born.

Additional activities

Please could the children bring in their planter challenge flowers/plants. Thank you.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, air, ure & ear.

Communication and Language

Using talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas feelings and events by describing characteristics of animals hidden in a feely bag.

Physical Development

Handling tools objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control. Children will be using scissors to cut out spiral snakes.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants interests and opinions through questioning and working in teams to take responsibility for different areas of the classroom.

Literacy

Writing own name and other things such as labels and captions. The children will be writing a caption about their favourite animal They will also be going on an animal hunt & writing the names of the animals they find.

Mathematics

Ordering and sequencing familiar events & using everyday language related to time. The children will be learning to tell the time using o clock, half past & quarter past. They will also be making their own clocks.

Understanding the World

Using ICT hardware to interact with age-appropriate computer software. The children will be programming beebots using arrow buttons to go to different animals on a mat.

Expressive Arts and Design

Exploring the different sounds of instruments by using shakey eggs while singing songs about animals.

Home Learning

Looking at watches/clocks & talking about the time using o clock & half past. Talk about what happens at different parts of the day with your child. E.g. what time they wake up, what time they have dinner & what time they go to bed.

Additional activities

Please could the children bring in their planter challenge flowers/plants. Thank you.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, air, ure & ear.

Communication and Language

Extending vocabulary, especially by grouping and naming, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words. The children will be playing body bingo using body words & tricky words.

Physical Development

Using a pencil and holding it effectively to form recognisable letters, mostly which are correctly formed. The children will be labelling parts of the body and making a picture of a friend using collage materials and writing their friends name.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants interests and opinions by drawing a picture of themselves with a speech bubble and writing something they are good at.

Literacy

Attempting to write short sentences in meaningful contexts, the children will be writing instructions for how to plant a seed.

Mathematics

Ordering and sequencing familiar events & using everyday language related to time. The children will be sequencing the day by looking at pictures of things they do when they wake up in the morning to get ready for school. The children will also be learning to tell the time using o clock.

Understanding the World

Looking closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. The children will be recognising similarities/differences between themselves and others by looking at height, hair colour, skin colour & colour of eyes. They will make simple graph to compare the similarities & differences.

Expressive Arts and Design

Creating simple representations of events, people and objects by using collage materials to make a picture of a friend.

Home Learning

Talking about the similarities & differences of hair colour, eye colour, skin colour & heights of their family members.

Additional activities

Please could the children bring in their planter challenge flowers/plants. Thank you.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, air & ear.

Communication and Language

Maintaining attention, concentrates and sits quietly during appropriate activity. The children will be sequencing seed growing picture cards in the correct order and talking about what is happening in each picture.

Physical Development

Handling tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control, the children will be using tweezers to pick up beans, seeds & lentils and sorting them into different containers.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants interests and options, the children will be discussing how they can help to look after the indoor & outdoor environments.

Literacy

Attempting to write short sentences in meaningful contexts by designing a poster with a picture of a plant/flower and writing a sentence about what a plant needs to grow.

Mathematics

Ordering two or three items by length or height by sorting plants into height order and using multilink cubes to measure heights of flowers.

Understanding the World

Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time, the children will be taking part in a cress experiment, one seed has sun & water, one seed has water but no sun and one seed has sun but no water.

Expressive Arts and Design

Understanding that different media can be combined to create new effects by making a sunflower using tissue paper & seeds.

Home Learning

Finding 5 items that are taller/shorter than a spoon.

Additional activities

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi & ear.

Communication and Language

Maintaining attention, concentrates and sits quietly during appropriate activity. The children will be sequencing seed growing picture cards in the correct order and talking about what is happening in each picture.

Physical Development

Handling tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control. Children will be using gardening tools e.g. trowels, watering cans & spades to plant flowers, vegetables & in the planters outside in the playground.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Explaining own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others. The children will be using talk partners to discuss what is needed for a plant to grow. They will be asking questions about spring & growing they would like to find the answers to.

Literacy

Writing own name and other things such as labels and captions by designing and labelling a seed packet. The children will also go on a flower picture hunt and write the names of the flowers they find.

Mathematics

Using positional language by describing where objects are using positional language such as in front, behind, next to and by the side.

Understanding the World

Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time and looking closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. Children will be growing cress seeds and planting plants, vegetables & flowers outside in the planter area.

Children will be using talk partners to discuss what is needed for a plant to grow.

Children will be playing these games on the learning platform- PC Plum`s Garden & My Secret Garden.

Expressive Arts and Design

Choosing particular colours to use for a purpose and creating simple representations of events, people and objects. Children will be choosing the correct colours for drawing pictures of daffodils.

Home Learning

Looking at and talking about the different plants/flowers in your house and garden.

Additional activities

Meet the teacher meeting at 2.45pm on Wednesday 17^th April.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi & ear.

Communication and Language

Listening and responding to ideas expressed by others in conversations or discussions by asking questions they would like to find the answers to about Easter.

Physical Development

Using simple tools to effect the change to materials by making chocolate rice crispy cakes.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Taking steps to resolve conflicts with other children e.g. finding a comprise by looking at the four rules again & talking about how they can resolve a situation without asking for an adults help.

Literacy

Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together by

writing a shopping list for chocolate rice crispy cakes.

Mathematics

In practical activities and discussion beginning to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting by problem solving maths challenges.

Understanding the World

Enjoying joining in with family customs and routines by reading & discussing the Easter story.

Expressive Arts and Design

Manipulating materials to achieved a planned affect by painting an Easter egg repeating pattern design using two colours or shapes.

Home Learning

Talking about how you will be celebrating Easter with your family.

Additional activities

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi & ear.

Communication and Language

Listening to conversations or discussions and responding to ideas expressed by others – children will be showing their vehicle models to the class and talking about what materials they have used to make their vehicle.

Physical Development

Observing the effects of activity on their bodies by listening to their heart before and after exercise.

Children will be able to draw round a partner’s body & then draw body parts-heart, lungs & ribs. Children will also be discussing things the body needs to work.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Enjoying responsibility of carrying out small tasks by being tidy up monitors for areas of the class room.

Children will be talking & thinking about why it’s important to be helpful.

Literacy

Writing own name and other things such as labels and captions – children will be labelling a person who helps them uniform. They will be able to choose from a police officer, a fire fighter or a nurse to label.

Mathematics

Recording using marks they can interpret & explain by using symbols/lines on whiteboards or chalk outside to show numbers & addition sums.

Understanding the World

Showing an interest in different occupations and ways of life by using question bears to think of questions to ask visitors Mr Fennel the caretaker, a community support officer & a fire fighter.

Expressive Arts and Design

Selecting tools & techniques needed to shape, assemble & join materials they are using by drawing and making a vehicle a person would help them uses e.g. an ambulance, a fire engine, a bus.

Home Learning

Looking at & talking about the features of vehicles people who help us use e.g. ambulance, fire engine, bus & police car.

Additional activities

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Learning tricky words we, me, be, she, he

Reading simple captions & sentences.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa.

Communication and Language

Joining in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories by joining in with an adaptation of we`re going on a bear hunt story. During the hunt children will be answering the question who could help us now & choosing from a doctor, Lollipop person, Police officer, Vet & Firefighter.

Physical Development

Observing the effects of activity on their bodies by listening to their heart before and after exercise.

Children will be able to draw round a partner’s body & then draw body parts-heart, lungs & ribs. Children will also be discussing things the body needs to work.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Enjoying responsibility of carrying out small tasks by being tidy up monitors for areas of the class room.

Children will be talking & thinking about why it’s important to be helpful.

Literacy

Describes main story settings, events and principle characters by

comparing the farmer duck story  & little red hen story. Children will be writing descriptive words to describe the farmer & the duck.

Mathematics

In practical activities and discussion beginning to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting by using small world ‘people who help us’ to carry out subtractions and record results.

Understanding the World

Showing an interest in different occupations and ways of life by using question bears to think of questions to ask visitors Mr Fennel & the community support officer.

Expressive Arts and Design

Building stories around toys by adults supporting children’s play and story lines when playing with small world resources.

Home Learning

Talk about the different occupations the people in your family have and what jobs they have to do on a daily basis.

Additional activities

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Learning tricky words we, me, be, she, he

Reading simple captions & sentences.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa.

Communication and Language

Beginning to understand why and how questions by asking questions about super hero’s using hot seating and question bears.

Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations by playing in the hospital & clothes/shoe shop role play

Areas.

Physical Development

Experimenting with different ways of moving by dancing to super hero music as their super hero.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children e.g. finding a comprise by discussing the question what makes a good super hero and talking about the 4 rules to be used in the classrooms and playground.

Literacy

Writing own name and other things such as labels and captions by

making a super hero comic book and writing about their super hero.

Mathematics

Showing an interest in number problems by going on a Super hero hunt around the school and solving maths challenges.

Understanding the World

Showing skill in making toys work by pressing parts or lifting flaps to achieve effects such as sound movement or new images. The children will be encouraged to play and programme Bee bots using grids to direct them to rescue people.

Expressive Arts and Design

Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things and

manipulating materials to achieved a planned affect. The children will be using collage materials to design a super hero’s outfit and making superhero vehicles out of modelling materials. The children will also be painting pictures of their mums.

Home Learning

Create your own super person and explain why they are super-you could draw a picture, write a short or just talk about the character you have created.

Additional activities

Monday 4^th March-Super hero workshop

Thursday 7^th March-Rocket workshop

Friday 8^th March-Robin class assembly at 9.10am

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Learning tricky words we, me, be, she, he was

Reading and writing simple captions & sentences.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa oo or

Communication and Language

Beginning to understand why and how questions by asking questions about super hero’s using hot seating and question bears.

Physical Development

Experimenting with different ways of moving by dancing to super hero music as their super hero.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children e.g. finding a comprise by discussing the question what makes a good super hero and talking about the 4 rules to be used in the classrooms and playground.

Literacy

Writing own name and other things such as labels and captions by

writing in Mother’s day cards and writing labels to describe their super hero characters.

Mathematics

Showing an interest in number problems by going on a Super hero hunt around the school and solving maths challenges.

Understanding the World

Showing skill in making toys work by pressing parts or lifting flaps to achieve effects such as sound movement or new images. The children will be encouraged to play and programme Bee bots using grids to direct them to rescue people.

Expressive Arts and Design

Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things and

manipulating materials to achieved a planned affect. The children will be making mother’s day cards and using collage materials to design a super hero’s outfit.

Home Learning

Looking at different types of materials & talking about which ones are strong & which ones are weak/fragile.

Additional activities

Parent’s evenings are Wednesday 27^th February & Thursday 28^th February.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Learning tricky words we, me, be, she, he

Reading simple captions & sentences.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa.

Communication and Language

Using talk to organise, sequence, clarify thinking, ideas, feelings & events. The children will be telling Nursery children and year 1 children what they have learnt about Chinese New Year.

Physical Development

Handling tools and objects safely & with control.

The children will be completing a Chopstick challenge using chopsticks to pick up 10 items including jelly. During P.E the children will be showing the nursery & year 1 children their Chinese dragon dance to music.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Selecting and using activities & resources with help and confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests & opinions. The children will be discussing the morals of the Chinese New Year story and talking about winning and losing.

Literacy

Giving meaning to marks they draw, write & paint by writing shopping lists for ingredients to make pancakes.

Mathematics

Selecting the correct numeral to represent up to 10 objects by playing number games on Education City.

Counting toys/objects accurately and ordering numbers up to 20.

Understanding the World

Enjoys joining in with family customs & routines by discussing Chinese New Year & New Year in England and the similarities and differences.

Drinking Chinese green tea & English tea & talking about the similarities & differences of both of them.

Eating Chinese food at the Chinese banquet on Friday.

Expressive Arts and Design

Builds a repertoire of songs and dances by learning a Chinese dragon dance & showing the dance to the nursery & year 1 children.

Experimenting to make different textures by making lanterns, Chinese moving dragons Chinese money purses, Chinese fans and Chinese blossom trees.

Home Learning

Look at Chinese dragon dances & listen to Chinese music on the internet.

Additional activities

On Friday afternoon the children will be able to eat Chinese food during our Chinese banquet. If you would like to help please let one of the staff members know. Thank You.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Blending sounds together to make simple words.

Learning tricky words we, me, be, she, he

Reading simple captions & sentences.

Recognise sounds ai, ee, igh, oa.

Communication and Language

Using talk to organise, sequence, clarify thinking, ideas, feelings & events. The children will be playing and using appropriate language in the Chinese restaurant role play area.

Physical Development

Handling tools and objects safely & with control.

The children will be completing a Chopstick challenge using chopsticks to pick up 10 items including jelly. During P.E the children will be learning a Chinese dragon dance to music.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Selecting and using activities & resources with help and confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests & opinions.

The children will be discussing Chinese New Year and looking at Chinese resources

Literacy

Giving meaning to marks they draw, write & paint by painting their names using Chinese symbols.

Copying the Chinese food menus and writing their own Chinese food menu in the role play area.

Mathematics

Selecting the correct numeral to represent up to 10 objects by playing number games on Education City.

Writing numbers and Chinese numbers with chalk, water and paint brushes outside.

Understanding the World

Enjoys joining in with family customs & routines by discussing Chinese New Year & New Year in England and the similarities and differences.

Looking at a world map and locating where China and England are on a map.

Knows that information can be retrieved from computers by dressing  a person up in Chinese clothing on Education City

Expressive Arts and Design

Builds a repertoire of songs and dances by learning a Chinese dragon dance.

Experimenting to make different textures by making and writing Chinese new year cards. Making lanterns, Chinese money purses, Chinese fans and Chinese blossom trees.

Home Learning

Look at a world map and locate where China and England are on it and talk about the similarities and differences between Chinese New Year and how we celebrate New Year in England.

Additional activities

On Friday the children will be learning how to say numbers to 10 in Chinese and tasting Chinese cake.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Revise letter sounds

Learning double sounds- th, ch, sh, ng,

Reading simple captions & sentences.

Communication and Language

Using language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations. Children will be playing and using appropriate language in the hairdressers and post office role play areas.

Listening and responding to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion. Children will be encouraged to complete a breakfast survey and ask each other what they had for breakfast that morning.

Physical Development

Ensure the children show understanding of the need for safety when tackling new challenges and considers and manages some risks in the outside environment using the slide and when using the apparatus for P.E.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

The children will be discussing how they can keep healthy by looking at pictures of healthy & unhealthy food & sorting them into groups.

They will choose a breakfast they would like to eat during a breakfast morning, making a fruit salad face & making fruit smoothies.

Literacy

Hearing and saying initial sounds in words, reading words and captions. Children will be encouraged to find and say the initial sound of words by drawing and labelling food in their lunchboxes. The children will also be writing the first sound of fruits needed to make their fruit faces on a shopping list.

Mathematics

Children using everyday language to talk about weight to compare quantities and to problem solve. Children will be weighing objects/fruits and using language of heavier and lighter.

Understanding the World

Commenting and asking questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place that they live or the natural world.

Children will be able to act out the role of a weather reporter in the weather forecast role play area.

Reading and discussing the Handa’s surprise book and talking about fruits in different countries.

Expressive Arts and Design

Choosing a particular colour to use for a purpose by drawing & painting pictures of different fruits.

Home Learning

Weighing two items and talking about which one is the heaviest and which one is the lightest. Weighing challenge- find an item that is heavier and lighter than a can of beans.

Additional activities

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Revise letter sounds p, I, n, m & d. new sounds g & o.

Learning double sounds- ck, ff, ll, ss.

Reading simple captions & sentences.

Communication and Language

Maintaining attention, concentrating and sitting quietly during appropriate activities.

Children will be playing weather bingo and weather snap in small groups. They will also be drawing & labelling pictures of summer & winter clothing.

Physical Development

Ensure the children show understanding of the need for safety when tackling new challenges and considers and manages some risks in the outside environment using the slide and when using the apparatus for P.E.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

At circle time talking about how we can be kind to our friends by sharing, taking turns & saying kind words. Focusing on books-Time To Share, Worried Arthur, Giraffes Can`t Dance, I Feel Angry, Hens Don`t Crow and The Stormy Night.

Literacy

Hearing and saying initial sounds in words, reading words and captions. Children will be encouraged to find and say the initial sound of words while playing weather bingo with pictures and words.

Mathematics

Beginning to use mathematical names for solid 3D shapes and flat 2D shapes and mathematical terms to describe shapes.

Children will be encouraged to create pictures using 2d shapes and exploring 3d shapes in play dough and ice.

Understanding the World

Commenting and asking questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place that they live or the natural world.

Children will be able to act out the role of a weather reporter in the weather forecast role play area.

Expressive Arts and Design

Exploring colours and how colours can be changed and exploring what happens when colours are mixed.

Colour mixing challenge by encouraging children to work in pairs and mix two colours together to see what colour they can make to paint a rainbow.  

Home Learning

Looking at items in your house that are 2d & 3d and talking about the shape name.

2d shapes-circle, square, triangle & rectangle.

3d shapes-cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone, sphere & prism.

Additional activities

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Reading and writing words with sh, th, ch, ng

Recognises ck e u r

Reads simple sentences

Communication and Language

Maintains attention, concentrates and sits quietly during appropriate activity including circle time games such as pass the smile.

Physical Development

uses one handed tools and equipment e.g makes snips in paper with scissors by making snowflakes by using scissors, a weather picture collage – using different material and colours to create a weather picture. Also making sandwiches as part of the café role play experience.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Encourage children initiate conversations and form good relationships with peers and adults, initiating conversation and taking account of what others say through the café and post office role play.

Literacy

Get the children to give meaning to marks they make as they draw, write and paint through the post office and café role play area

Mathematics

Beginning to use mathematical names for solid 3D shapes and flat 2D shapes and mathematical terms to describe shapes

Understanding the World

Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change by creating own weather chart

Expressive Arts and Design

Explores what happens when they mix colours and experiments to create different textures by painting rainbows and different types of weather for the outside weather centre

Home Learning

Look at shapes in the environment or house and use maths names for solid 3D shapes and flat 2D shapes and describe shape using vocabulary such as sides, corners etc and talk about the differences between shapes

Additional activities

Making sandwiches

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Continue a rhyming string

Read words with the sh th ng and ch sound

Blend to read and write CVC words

Communication and Language

Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say by carrying out a favourite colour or weather survey with their peers

Physical Development

uses one handed tools and equipment e.g using scissors with control and safety by making a weather collage and snow flakes 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Maintains attention, concentrates and sits quietly during appropriate activity by playing circle game activities such as the leader starts by wiggling fingers for the rain, this passes around the circle until everyone is wiggling their fingers. The leader then changes the action to other aspects of the storm, e.g. wind – arms waving, thunder – slap knees. End with the sun - mime a circle.

Literacy

Gives meaning to marks they make as they draw, write and paint by writing and drawing thank you letters to Father Christmas

Mathematics

Using a shape feely bag to help the children begin to use mathematical names for solid 3D shapes and flat 2D shapes and mathematical terms to describe shapes.

Understanding the World

Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change by monitoring the weather through rain gauge, kites to fly in the wind and exploring what happens to ice in different places

Expressive Arts and Design

Explores what happens when they mix colours and experiments to create different textures by making a weather picture collage. 

Home Learning

Talk to your child about the different shapes in the environment and talk about the difference between flat 2D shapes such as Square, circle, triangle, rectangle, hexagon, pentagon, semi-circle, and 3D shapes such as sphere, cube, cuboids, cylinders, cones,  

Additional activities

‘Meet the teacher’ session from 2.45 to 3.10 in your child’s classroom on Thursday the 10^th of Jan 

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Reading and writing tricky words the I go no to

Recognise v j z x y

Communication and Language

Encouraging the children to maintains attention, concentrates and sits quietly during appropriate activities such as the theatre production on Tuesday 

Physical Development

Developing the handling of tools, objects, construction & malleable materials safely & with increasing control by wrapping presents on the creative table so that they can play father Christmas and making Christmas cupcakes for the party (CI)

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

The children will  begin to problem solve and negotiate with others by Talking to each other about what makes their Christmas special

And working together for the Christmas party (Thurs)

Literacy

Helping children hear & says initial sounds in words when labelling Father Christmas’s presents after the children have wrapped the presents they will write initial sound or cvc word on such things as pen cat book doll etc.

Mathematics

Te children will cut up a Christmas card and make a jigsaw to put together to develop awareness of shape.

Understanding the World

Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change by exploring Ice in the water tray, predicting what will happen and what will effect the speed i.e if you put it in the fridge or on hot water etc

Expressive Arts and Design

Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect through activities such as

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making Christingles (weds)

Free painting Christmas ideas

Santa’s grotto workshop

Role play Father Christmas with his black sack

Home Learning

Helping children hear & says initial sounds in words when labelling objects around the house.

Additional activities

Christmas party with party clothes and food on Thursday

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Revise letter sounds p, I, n, m & d, g & o. new sounds c & k.

Learning double sounds- sh, ch, th.

Tricky words-to, no, go, the, I.

Communication and Language

Encouraging the children to be able to follow a story without pictures or props: Listening to musical instrument sounds in stories & guessing the instrument. The children will be supported in noticing variations in sound and tempo in music.

Physical Development

Shows a preference for a dominant hand by using scissors to cut pictures out of toys they would like for Christmas.

Using a pencil & holding it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed: writing letters to Father Christmas

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Talking about appropriate behaviour by watching adults role playing scenarios, children to comment on appropriate & inappropriate behaviour.

Literacy

The children will be able to give meaning to marks they draw, write & paint by writing words & their name in Christmas cards.

Mathematics

Ordering two items by weighing ice & other objects. The children will be able to guess whether the item is heavier or lighter than the ice.

Understanding the World

Completing a simple programme on the computer by playing snow games on the learning platform.

Expressive Arts and Design

Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect: Making Christmas cards & calendars.

Home Learning

Compare two items at home by weighing two objects & talking about if they are heavy or light. Talking about numbers on the doors of their advent calendars, what numbers comes after & before each number.

Additional activities

Foundation Christmas plays are on Wednesday 5^th & Friday 7^th December.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Revise letter sounds p, I, n, m & d. new sounds g & o.

Learning double sounds- ck, ff, ll, ss.

Reading simple captions & sentences.

Communication and Language

Encouraging the children to be able to follow a story without pictures or props: Listening to musical instrument sounds in stories & guessing the instrument. The children will be supported in noticing variations in sound and tempo in music.

Physical Development

Ensure the children show understanding of the need for safety when tackling new challenges and considers and manages some risks in the outside environment and when using the stage for the play rehearsals.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

At circle time the class will discuss the expectations and rules of behaviour for school play.

Talking about appropriate behaviour by watching adults role playing scenarios, children to comment on appropriate & inappropriate behaviour.

Literacy

The children will be able to give meaning to marks they draw, write & paint by making a Christmas book. They will be drawing their character in the Christmas play and writing about their character.

Mathematics

Counting an irregular group of different amounts of objects up to 20 objects from an assortment of objects in a magic box.

Playing a game of getting into groups of a particular number of children.

Understanding the World

Looking closely at similarities, differences, patterns & change: Looking at the weather each day & filling in a weather chart daily.

Expressive Arts and Design

The children will be exploring & using media & materials, begin to build a repertoire of songs & dances and plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop & act out a narrative. The children will be learning the songs to the Christmas plays & painting pictures of their character in the Christmas play.

Home Learning

Encourage your child to look at the weather each day & decide what clothes & shoes they will need to wear.

Additional activities

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

Reading simple captions

Reading and writing tricky words

Blend sounds together using letters g, o, c, k, ck, u, r, e

Recognises m, d, g, o 

Communication and Language

Encouraging the children to be able to follow a story without pictures or props: we will be looking traditional stories and encouraging them to act it out as well as school play. The children will have the chance to make up their own story and video using camera to show to the rest of the class and look at mime.

Physical Development

Ensure the children show understanding of the need for safety when tackling new challenges and considers and manages some risks in the outside environment and when using the stage for the play rehearsals.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

At circle time the class will discuss the expectations and rules of behaviour for school play.

Literacy

Through stories, songs and other forms of media and entertainment the children will have opportunities to uses vocabulary and forms of speech that is influenced by their experiences i.e  the children to go to the library for ideas for their play which they will act out – carry out hot seating of different characters once role modelled by the teacher.

Mathematics

Carry out activities in which they can describe their relatively position such as behind or next to, left, right etc

Understanding the World

Completes a simple programme on a computer such as ‘to go’ and Cbeebies Justin’s house game which is on the learning platform

Expressive Arts and Design

The children will be exploring & using media & materials, begin to build a repertoire of songs & dances and plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop & act out a narrative. The children will have a chance to role play stories and plays in the outside theatre using the crates as a stage. 

Home Learning

Encourage your child to put on a ‘theatre show’ at home – maybe reacting traditional stories such as little red riding hood or the three little pigs.

Additional activities

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Letters and Sounds

 Recognise the to go I no

Blend to read words with letter sounds g, o, c, k

Recognise double sounds ss, ll, ff,ck

Communication and Language

Children will be extending vocabulary especially grouping & naming exploring the meaning & sounds of new words by working as a team to wash staff cars in car park. Photos will be taken for children to discuss afterwards.

Physical Development

Helping children handle tools, objects, construction & malleable materials safely & with increasing control by making cars, aeroplanes, boats, rockets etc using collage materials, construction toys

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Children will be encouraged to explain own knowledge & understanding & asks appropriate questions of others by carrying out a transport survey in which they will help design questionnaire & record results using a tally chart.

Literacy

Enjoys an increasing range of books including Non-fiction books on transport. The children will look at the features of a non-fiction book and begin to understand the difference between a fiction & a non-fiction book.

Mathematics

Recognises orders and writes numerals up to 20 through small group work and recognise numerals on number plates, buses etc

Understanding the World

The children will aim to complete a simple programme on a computer such as ‘to go’ which explores directions and language such as left and right and simple city will allows the children to find out about how a garage works.

Expressive Arts and Design

The children will work in small groups to manipulate materials to make a mode of transport from different types of materials i.e. large bricks, stickle bricks, collage materials etc. the children will be encouraged to plan, create & review & record some of their ideas e.g. what materials & resources they need.

Home Learning

Look at non-fiction books at home and talk to your child about the difference between a non-fiction book and a story book (fiction)

Additional activities

Please return the slip for the car washing activity – the children will be washing the teachers cars as part of the transport topic

This week’s topic is Harvest.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Communication and Language

Learning songs for the Harvest Festival.

Physical Development

Making props for the Harvest Festival. Making a farmer, vegetables & fruits using play dough.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Circle time-Reading The Little Red Hen story and talking about how to help others.

Literacy

Looking at books/stories in small groups & talking about the blurb, front cover, author & illustrator.

Mathematics

Counting fruit & vegetables and adding them together to find the total amount.

Understanding the World

Sorting food into simple food groups. Talking about if the food is from animals, the ground & or from trees.

Looking at & tasting breakfast cereals- bread, porridge & rice krispies.

Expressive Arts and Design

Making a tractor using cardboard boxes.

Making a farm outside & role playing the farmer & farm animals.

Home Learning

Talk to your child about where food comes from. E.g. a tree, an animal or from the ground.

Additional activities

This week’s topic is my favourite book.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Communication and Language

Acting out the story `Whatever Next` by using the props from the story.

Physical Development

Making shape biscuits using different shape cutters. Designing & drawing their favourite story book front cover.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Talking about feelings such as what makes us happy & sad and how to look after others.

Literacy

Looking at books/stories in small groups & talking about the blurb, front cover, author & illustrator.

Mathematics

Looking at shapes in the environment by going on a shape hunt. Guessing what shape is in the feely bag by describing them.

Understanding the World

Looking at story books & encouraging the children to talk about their favourite part of the story. Discussing the characters & what they liked & disliked about them.

Expressive Arts and Design

Encouraging the children to sing familiar songs & nursery rhymes in small groups.

Painting pictures of the favourite story book character.

Home Learning

Talk to your child about different types of books-fiction, non-fiction. Look at the features of a book, the blurb, front cover, author etc.

Additional activities

Children’s book author Cathy MacLellan will be visiting the school on Tuesday 9^th October. She will be selling/signing her books between 3.15pm-4pm.

Areas of Learning and Development

Learning focus and a selection of activities that will be carried out to support this learning

Communication and Language

Reading stories about families- The Large family stories, Guess how much I love you, No matter what and Charlie & Lola.

Physical Development

Using outside toys correctly- bikes, balls, hoops, stilts.

Using scissors to make  letter collages

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will encourage the children to wash their hands by using glitter (pretending the glitter pieces are germs).

We will discuss with the children during circle time how they can look after their bodies & how they can stay healthy.

Literacy

We will be writing names using chalk & paint.

Making a collage using the first letter of their name.

Finding foam letters in the sand/water tray and going on a letter hunt outside in playground.

Mathematics

Encourage the children to recognise differences in quantities by counting letters in their name & a friend’s name.

Understanding the World

Painting pictures of their family.

Drawing pictures on colour magic in the computer suite.

Expressive Arts and Design

Encourage the children to create simple representations of people by painting pictures of their family & pets.

Home Learning – some learning to take place at home but it does not have to be brought into school.  

Please encourage your child to find 5 objects/items in their house that beginning with the first letter of their name.

Additional activities

Please bring a family photo for your child talk about & to display in class. If you have any empty boxes e.g. cereal boxes & toothpaste boxes please could you send them in for the children to make houses with.