This year you are lucky enough to have Mrs Stephani (M-W) and Mrs Lindop (W-Fr) as your child's class teachers, and Miss Walton as your child's teaching assistant, full time in Nursery.

 

This year we are extremely fortunate with our pd curriculum. We have yoga every Monday and We will also begin some multi- o skills practise for sports day.

We will be doing forest school every Wednesday so please send your child in with the appropriate clothing. come - waterproofs, wellies and layers during the winter months. 

It is important that your child builds up a love of books and reading for pleasure! 

Every Monday your child will be given a new library book when their previous one is returned. This book is to enjoy together throughout the week and over the weekend. 

Our text for this half-term is : The storm whale

 

Homework will be set on a Wednesday through our online learning platform, Tapestry. You can search for this through the app store or via an email login. 

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and Mrs Stephani and Mrs Lindop will check and respond to this within that time.  Some homework will involve an activity through the app, and other homework challenges will be a practical challenge for you to complete with your child. 

Big Question: What can we do with water?

During Summer 2 , children will explore how you keep dry in the rain. (Science investigation) They will investigate floating and sinking. They will explore where rain comes from.  (Geography/Science)  They will find out what you would find under the sea, and how you can travel on water?  

Special Experiences

• Wow Start: Fire engine/ rain experiment with umbrellas and puddle suits

• Fantastic Finish: Beach party

• Additional Learning Opportunities:

  • Fire engine

  • Waterplay

  • Beach party

  • Sports day

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Children will:

-To begin to prepare for transition into Reception, visiting their new classroom and talking about September.  

-To begin to label and express when feeling happy, sad, tired, angry, frustrated and excited.  

-To talk about their feelings in regards to transition and moving into Reception.  

-Is able to share and attempt to solve conflicts within play. 

-Becoming more independent in their self-care.  

-To be able to follow rules and boundaries without much adult support.  

-Takes part in pretend play with others, engaging and building on play ideas.  

-Can engage with an activity for a prolonged period of time.  

-To engage in group tasks e.g. building guttering 

-To discuss if they like the rain 

-To talk about their experiences of going to the seaside/ playing with water 

-To discuss who their friends are (sharing a shell) 

Communication and Language

Children will:

-To participate in group-time for at least 15 minutes at a time.  

-Remember and join in with familiar songs and rhymes.  

-Understand simple ‘why’ questions. Why do we need water?  

-Can start and continue a conversation with an adult and child.  

-Use a sentence of 4-6 words.  

-Understand and follow a two-part instruction.  

-To sort out clothes for a hot and then a rainy day 

-To make voice sounds to represent water 

-To give instructions to peers  

-To follow more complicated instructions - to create boats. 

Physical Development

Children will:

To be able to balance on two points confidently and one point with practice.

To build up the skills to balance on a bike and push using the pedals.

To learn how to skip.

To begin to develop the skill of getting dresses and getting undressed for PE

To  practice throwing and catching using a range of ball sizes.

To develop our hand and eye coordination through activities such as threading.

To begin to learn some boundaries and get involved with active team games.

To continue to develop fine motor skills through dough disco, ribbon dancing, mark making, threading and daily funky finger activities. 

To use one handed tools and equipment

Shows a preference for a dominant hand

Literacy

Children will:

-Understand that they read left-right and label key parts of a book - front cover, pages, pictures, text.  

-To read their own name.  

-Recognise rhyme in words.  

-To begin to identify some objects that start with a sound - alliteration.  

-To be able to clap syllables.  

-To form the letters in their name or give meaning to the marks they make when representing their name.  

-To form some recognisable letter shapes.  

-Orally retell the story of The storm Whale.  

-To change the character within the story  

-To give meaning to marks.  

-To show an interest in non-fiction texts about water and sea animals 

-To assign meaning to print in the environment 

-To recognise familiar labels and signs 

-To orally retell a story and begin to scribe with an adult 

Mathematics

Children will:

-Subitise with numbers to 5.  

-To be confident with number to 5 - reciting, recognising, and 1:1 correspondence.  

-To describe a sequence of events.  

-To continue a repeating pattern.  

-To talk about and explore 2D and 3D shapes.  

-Can make comparisons between objects in relation to length, height, weight and capacity.  

-Sing once I caught a fish alive  

-Sing five little ducks.  

-To discuss the shape and size of shells 

-To name 2D shapes: circle, square, triangle and rectangle.  

-To name 3D shapes: Sphere, cuboid, pyramid  

-To continue and create ABAB patterns  

 

Understanding the World

Children will:

-To be familiar with the days of the week.  

-Begin to compare past and current experiences.  

-To know and talk about family events.  

-To have an understanding of Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer.  

-Know that there are different countries in the world and that they have differences - talk about holidays and experiences.  

-Use all of our senses to explore water - ice, freeze, melt, cold etc.  

-To understand different weathers and the clothes that we would wear - beach party, water play etc.  

-To gain an understanding of roles such as sailors, firemen etc. 

-To observe changes in weather 

-To make ice melt and observe the changes 

-To know how ice is made 

-To identify animals that live under the sea 

-To explore floating and sinking 

-To name the key features of boats 

Expressive Arts and Design

Children will:

-To create small world settings within their play - buildings, homes etc.  

-Rhyme time challenge - sing a range of songs, changing pitch and tone to match the music.  

-To explore colour and colour mixing. 

-To use a range of tools and materials to create a boat with a mechanism (DT).  

-To use water-colour paint to create a scenic picture of the sea.  

-To create a storyline within play - pirates and boats, going to the beach etc. Extend on play ideas.  

-To build guttering for water to travel down 

-To construct boats with key features 

-To explore colour mixing in water 

-To use music and voice sounds to create water sounds – splash, drip, swoosh.  

-To create small world scenes of oceans