This term in Early Years our overarching theme is ‘come outside’ and we started the term off with learning all about ways to look after our environment and shared the story ‘Somebody swallowed Stanley’. We will be learning about the different seasons through stories such as ‘Seasons come, Seasons go’ the ‘Leaf thief’ and ‘A stroll through the Seasons’. During our learning in ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ week the children will be planting their own beans which they will bring home, please feel free to send photos into school to show us how tall your Beanstalk grows. We will be learning all about sequencing and Days of the Week when we read the story of ‘Jaspers Beanstalk’ and healthy eating when we read ‘Olivers Vegetables’. We will end the term with lots of Easter themed crafts and fun.
All children have now moved onto phase 4 phonics sounds, please continue to read with your children at home, if you can, to help develop fluency in their reading. In Maths the children will be deepening their understanding of a whole being made up of smaller parts through games and practical experiences, such as investigating the number of ducks on a pond. They will begin to recognise that numbers can be made by combining parts in different ways and will be encouraged to make links by considering similarities and differences in the various ways of making a number. The children will continue to use their subitising skills to explore and deeply understand the composition of numbers within 10. This will support their increasing fluency with number bonds and help them to develop efficient and flexible calculation strategies in Key Stage 1 and beyond.
In our skills lessons we will be having fun with some Science experiments such as colour mixing and investigating what happens when your pour warm water over skittles. We will be using instruments to find the pulse in Music. We will be looking at signs of Spring in RE lessons plus lots more exciting learning opportunities in Geography, History and Art. We will share photos at the end of the term for you to see all the things your child has been up to inside the classroom.