Welcome
This half term might only be 5 weeks long but we still have a lot of lovely learning experiences to fit in! Please find our curriculum information for this half term, along with ways you can support at home.
Maths
We follow White Rose Maths for Nursery and Reception and NCTEM Mastering Number for Reception.
Nursery Children
- Counting - Take and give 1,2,3: Choose a group to count. Take out 2 and 3 from a group. Give others 2 and 3 items. Count 3 objects with 1:1 correspondence
- Shape space and measure - Match, talk, push and pull: Match simple shapes Make and talk about simple arrangements Follow simple routines outside Make toys follow a simple route
- Subitising - Talk about dots: Become familiar with dot patterns. Say when there is 1 and 2 dots. Recognise 1 and 2 in different arrangements. Say when there are 3 dots. Recognise 1,2 and 3 in different arrangements.
Reception Children
- Growing 6,7, 8: Doubles to 8 (find a double and make a double) Combine 2 groups- There are 2 here and 4 there, there are 6 altogether, 2 and 4 make 6. Conceptual subitising - Recognise groups within numbers greater than 5.
- Length, height and time: Explore length and compare length. Explore height and compare height. Talk about time. Order and sequence time.
- Building 9 and 10: Find 9 and 10. Compare numbers to 10. Represent 9 and 10. Conceptual subitising to 10. 1 more and 1 less. Bonds to 10 (2 parts). Make arrangements of 10. Bonds to 10 (3 parts). Doubles to 10 - Make a double and find a double. Explore odd and even.
Literacy
Nursery and Reception are taught together for Literacy
- Using the story “There is no Dragon in this story” as the basis for 3 weeks of literacy lessons. Using prediction skills to decide what might happen next. Identifying what a hero is.
- Order and sequence the story. Role play characters from the story. Reception children will write dictated sentences from the story.
- Linked to our knowledge and understanding lessons about Healthy Eating we will use the story “Oliver’s Vegetables”. We will taste vegetables and design and plant our own vegetable patch.
Phonics
We follow the phonics scheme FFT Success for all for both Nursery and Reception children
Nursery Children
As part of their first steps to phonics programme the children will continue to learn GPC’s (grapheme phoneme correspondence eg s a t) Each GPC is taught over two days, instead of one day as is taught in the Reception Phonics lessons. This provides more opportunity for consolidation, helping children to remember the GPCs they are taught. Between now and the end of the Nursery school year the children will learn the first 35 GPC’s. This will then enable them to start their Reception year in September with existing phonics skills for a smooth transition ready for reading and writing in the Reception year. Guided reading books are not introduced until the Reception year.
This half term Nursery children will learn e u r h b f l j v w and will be taught the correct formation of each gpc. Please make sure they bring their phonics folder to school to bring home each week with the new gpc’s to recognise and letter formation sheets.
Reception Children
Reception children will learn the digraphs (when 2 letters make 1 sound) and trigraph (when 3 letters make 1 sound)- igh oa oo (zoo) oo (book) and continue with daily letter formation and word writing.
There is no phonics assessment this half term.
Knowledge and understanding of the world
- Exploring the senses.
- Keeping Healthy- exercise, eating healthy, germs and hygiene.
- Making soup- Designing a recipe, safely preparing ingredients
Expressive arts and design
- Let’s get crafty- Developing the skills of cutting, joining, threading, paper crafts. Design and make a tissue paper flower.
RE
- Special Books - Our special books, The Bible, The Quran, The Easter Story, How Christians celebrate Easter.
PE
Nursery - Dancing with ribbon scarves to music. Skip, hop, jump and hold a pose - musical statues. Apparatus - crawling skills, balancing and jumping.
Reception - Dance - Changing actions based on the pace and tempo of music. Use my body and create simple theme related shapes, movements and actions.
Outdoor Learning
As part of our Keeping Healthy topic we will be tending to our raised beds and planting our own vegetables to nurture and eventually eat.
The children will be developing language and communication as well as learning to work as a team, taking turns and negotiating plans using the outdoor resources. We will be using not only our outdoor area but schools’ extensive grounds including the wilderness area.
How you can support at home
- Nursery and Reception Children - SSharing stories daily, practicing holding a pencil correctly, singing number songs/nursery rhymes and counting.
- Nursery Children - Looking through their phonics folders with them at home and completing the letter formation sheets.
- Reception Children - Reading their school guided reading book at least 3 times a week. Practicing the sounds and red words in their folder regularly.
Websites we use are:
- Cbeebies - Alphablocks
- Cbeebies - Numberblocks
- BBC Schools radio EYFS Nursery Rhyme and Songs
- And on Youtube.com Kids TV 123 Numbers
Thank you for your continued support,
The EYFS Team
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