Term: Summer 1 Date: 16.04.18
Dear Parents,
Welcome back everyone, we hope you and your children are well rested and had a lovely Easter break. This term our topic is growing and changing. We will be looking at humans, creatures and plants.
As we move into our final term in Early Years we will be trying to encourage a higher level of independence. If you could talk to your children about leaving you at the door and choosing their own lunches we would appreciate it. We will be praising children that do this independently from Week beginning 23rd April.
We will be reading and exploring various texts. This week we will start with `Mad about Mini beasts`. We will be exploring mini beasts and their habitats and hunting for mini beasts. On Thursday we will have a visitor in school to talk to the children about insects and take them into our wooded area for a mini beast hunt.
If you have any junk materials for the children to create mini beast environments we would really appreciate it.
Our Learning Objectives for this term are:-
Personal, Social and Emotional:
Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.
Aware of the boundaries set, and of behavioural expectations in the setting.
Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.
Communication and Language:
Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
Extends vocabulary, especially by grouping and naming, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words.
ELG: They give their attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in another activity.
Physical Development:
Practices some appropriate safety measures without direct supervision. Uses simple tools to effect changes to materials.
Children show good control and coordination in large and small movements.
Literacy:
Uses phonetic knowledge to write simple cvc words.
Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.
Attempts to write short sentences, which they can then read back.
Mathematics:
Count reliably from 1-20.
Order numbers from 1-20.
Identify 1 more or less of a given number.
Expressive Art and Design:
Experiment with changing songs.
Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect.
Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources.
Understanding the World:
Children know about similarities and differences in relation to living things.
Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.
They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
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. Thank you to all the families who completed this last term we hope to see
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: Mr Bloom
Piece of Art: Eric Carle - illustrator
Illustration by Eric Carle
Person: Mr Bloom
1. To find out facts about the illustrator.
2. To make a collage of one of his illustrations.
3. To choose a favourite illustration and talk/write about why you like it.
Draw a portrait of the person.
Find out facts about the person.
Watch the person in action.
Dates for your Diary:
Monday 16th April -school reopens 8.30
Thursday 3rd May-polling day-School closed
Monday 7th May-School closed May day bank holiday
Friday 25th May-School Closed Staff Training
Monday1st June-Friday 5th June -School Closed-Half Term
If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is eyfs@mead.havering.sch.uk
Kind regards
The Reception Team
