Term: Spring 1 Date: 31.12718
Dear Parents,
We hope you all had a lovely break and we would like to wish you all a Happy New Year.
We are looking forward to seeing all our children and families back at school on Tuesday morning.
We are starting a new topic this week of Traditional Tales. This week we will be reading the Little Red Hen and carrying out various related tasks such as exploring the story structure, role playing, and making our very own bread.
We will be restarting our phonics programme Read, write Inc and looking at teen numbers in our maths sessions.
The learning objectives for this half term are:
Personal, Social and Emotional
Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.
Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities
Can usually adapt behaviour to different events, social situations and changes in routine.
Communication and Language
Joins in with repeated refrains.
Can retell a simple story.
Builds up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences.
Literacy
Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.
Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.
Joins in with repeated repeated refrains and anticipated key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
Physical Development:
Forms recognisable letters.
Can usually manage washing and drying hands.
Runs skillfully and negotiates spaces successfully.
Mathematics
To recap number recognition 0-10.
To recap number formation 0-10.
To confidently count to 20 and beyond demonstrating place value.
Understanding The World
Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experiences.
Shows an interests in different ways of life.
Can talk about some of the things they have observed.
Expressive arts and design
Constructs with a purpose in mind.
Manipulates material to achieve a planned effect.
Explores colour and how colour can be changed.
This newsletter will be posted on our EYFS blog and facebook page at the beginning of each week.
Messages.
Please remember to bring back P,E kits before our P.E session on Wednesday.
All earrings should be taken out.
This week`s lunch is taken from Week 3 of the Havering Catering menu
Tuesday`s lunch is
Cottage Pie
Sticky Chicken with Potato Wedges
Vegetarian Cottage Pie Broccoli & Organic Carrots
Apple & Pear Sponge with Custard
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.
This is an ongoing activity that should take place over a number of weeks, it should be the children’s own work (supported by the parents) and it needs to be brought into school so we can celebrate the child`s achievements.
Person: Choose a Traditional Tale Character
Artist/Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
Poem/Song to learn: Teddy Bear Teddy Bear
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear,
Turn around
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear,
Touch the ground,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear,
Reach up high,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear,
Touch the sky.
Nursery Rhyme
Artist/Illustrator
Person
1. Learn it off by heart.
2. Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme.
3. Find out about bears..
To find out facts about the illustrator.
Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator.
To draw a picture in a similar style
1. Draw a portrait of the person.
2. Find out facts about the person.
3. Watch the person in action.
Dates for your diary:
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
Once again we would like to wish you a happy new year
Kind regards
The Reception Team
