Term: Autumn 2 Week 8 18.12.17
Dear Parents/Carers
This is our last newsletter before the Christmas holidays so on behalf of everyone in Reception we wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thank you to all of you who were able to attend our Christmas Nativity play, the children worked really hard and it was lovely to see so many of you come and watch. A BIG thank you to all of you for your generous donations towards the headstone, the family greatly appreciate your help and support.
We will be finishing our topic ‘Celebrations and Patterns’ this week by completing lots of Christmas fun filled activities. On Tuesday we will be having our class Christmas parties and are kindly asking parents for a small item of food. Please see towards the bottom of the newsletter what your child’s class needs to bring. When we return in January our topic will be ‘Traditional Tales’ and we will start by learning the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’.
Please remember to label all of your children’s clothing including PE kits as we accumulating more lost property and are unable to identify the rightful owner.
We are on Week 2 of the Havering School Catering Menu
Monday’s choices are:
Organic pork sausages with mashed potato
Tuna and sweetcorn pasta bake
Red onion and rosemary sausages with mash potato
PE
Please note we will not be having a PE lesson this week and all PE kits have been sent home, ready to be returned in January.
Our objectives this term are:-
Personal, Social and Emotional:
Begins to accept the needs of others and can take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others.
Can usually tolerate delay when needs are not immediately met, and understands wishes may not always be met.
Initiates play, offering cues to peers to join them.
Communication and Language:
Shows understanding of prepositions by carrying out an action or selecting correct picture.
Can retell a simple past event in correct order.
Questions why things happen and gives explanations. Asks e.g. who, what, when, how.
Physical Development:
Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
Experiments with different ways of moving.
Moves with confidence in a range of ways, negotiating space.
Literacy:
Enjoys an increasing range of books.
Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.
Hears and says initial sounds in words.
Mathematics:
Can describe their relative position such as 'behind' or 'next to'.
Uses familiar objects and common shapes to create and recreate patterns and build models.
Finds the total number of objects in two groups by counting all of them
In practical activities and discussion, beginning to use the vocabulary involve in addition and subtraction.
Understanding the World:
Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience.
Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life.
Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends.
Expressive Art and Design:
Imitates movement in response to music.
Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things.
Captures experiences and responses with a range of media, such as music, dance and paint and other materials or words.
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.
Poem/Song to learn: Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer
Five little Men in a flying saucer. Person: Mr Maker
Flew around the world one day,
They looked left and right,
But they didn’t like the sight,
So one man flew away.
Zoom!
Composer/Piece of music: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Nursery Rhyme
Piece of music
Person
1. Learn it off by heart.
2. Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme.
3. Find out about stars.
Listen to the piece of music.
Create some movements to the music.
Draw an illustration to represent their feelings.
1. 1.Draw a portrait of the person.
2. Find out facts about the person.
3. Watch the person in action.
Dates for you diary
Tuesday 19th December – Class Christmas parties – Please note children do not require party clothes. Each class has been asked to bring in an item of food:
Barbados – Crisps
St Lucia – Cakes
Jamaica Class-Biscuits.
Wednesday 20th December 3pm- School closes for Christmas
Tuesday 2nd January-School reopens
The school will be closed on the following days for pupils
INSET Days: Polling Day:
9th February
3rd May
25th May
29th June
If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is eyfs@mead.havering.sch.uk
Staff are also available straight after school to discuss any concerns that you may have.
Remember to watch out for those cheeky elves.
Kind Regards
The Early Years Team
