Term: Spring 2 Date: 27.02.17
Dear Parents,
We had a super week back learning all about dinosaurs and our dinosaur day was a huge success. We will be continuing with our dinosaur theme this week so if your child has anything at home connected to dinosaurs we would be delighted for them to bring in dinosaur themed things to show. Remember Thursday is world book day so the children may come to school dressed as a book character and we will have a day celebrating the wonder of books and stories. We will be working on the theme of estimation through our focus maths times. Estimation is a skill for life learning to work out the approximate number by looking so we will be teaching the children to make an estimate based on what they have seen and know.
Our Learning Objectives for this term are:-
Personal,
Social and Emotional:
Explains own
knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.
Shows confidence in
asking adults for help.
Confident to speak to
others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.
Communication and Language:
Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are
increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.
Uses language to imagine and recreate roles
and experiences in play situations.
Can retell a simple past event in correct
order.
Physical Development:
Eats a healthy range of foodstuffs and
understands the need for variety in food.
Shows understanding of the need for good
practices with regards to exercise, eating, sleeping, and hygiene can
contribute to good health.
Show an understanding of a need for safety
when tackling new challenges and considers and manages risks.
Literacy:
Recognises rhythm in spoken words
Describes main story settings, events and
principal characters.
Hears and says the initial sound in words.
Mathematics:
Estimates how many
objects they can see and checks by counting them.
Recognise some numerals of personal
significance.
Counts an irregular arrangement of up to ten
objects.
Expressive Art and Design:
Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a
variety of resources.
Builds stories around toys, e.g. farm animals
needing rescue from an armchair 'cliff'. Understands that they can use lines to
enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
Understanding the World:
Enjoys joining in with family customs and
routines
Beginning to construct, stacking blocks
vertically and horizontally, making enclosures and creating spaces
Looks closely at similarities, differences,
patterns and change
Messages.
Learning Challenge
Each
half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning.
We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how
their children's learning can be extended at home.
The
learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, famous person,
illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge
and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they
present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class.
Person: A Super Hero /a dinosaur
Poem/Song to learn: Jack and Jill went up the hill
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Nursery Rhyme
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Piece of music
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Person
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1. Learn it off by heart.
2. Draw a picture to
illustrate the rhyme.
3. Find out about the origin
of the rhyme.
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1. Listen to the music and dance to it.
2. Find out facts about the composer.
3. Produce a collage or picture to illustrate the
piece of music.
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1. Draw a portrait of the person./dinosaur
2. Find
out facts about the person/dinosaur
3. Watch the person/dinosaur in action.
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Well done to Barbados class for winning this week`s Remarkable Readers award. Who will be next?
On Wednesday 8th March between 8.30 and 9.00 we would like to invite you to stay and Read with your child. Reading is so important but we know how busy life is so this is an opportunity to hear your child read/share a story with your child in school.
Dates for your Diary:
Tuesday 28th February-Pancake day lunch
Thursday 2nd March - World Book Day
Kind regards
The Reception Team
