Sunday 4 January 2015

Reception Weekly Newsletter 05.01.15

Term: Spring 1
Date: 05.01.15
 
Happy New Year and welcome back! We hope you all enjoyed the festive celebrations and are looking forward to the term ahead. This term our topic is going to be ‘Superheroes’. This week we will be looking at our learning power heroes; Annie the Ant, Rob the Rhinoceros, Betty the Beaver and Tom the Tortoise. We will be looking what each of these heroes teaches us. Your child will be taking part in the following activities. (Activities are subject to change, depending on the children’s interests):

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.
  • Aware of own feelings, and knows that some actions and words can hurt others’ feelings.
Communication and Language
  • Uses talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events
  • Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
  • Discussing the learning power heroes and what they teach us
  • Talking about what we are good at
Physical Development
  • The children will be continuing to go out in small groups with Mr Portway
  • Experiments with different ways of moving.
  • Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
  • Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp.
  • Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
  • Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.
  • Jumps off an object and lands appropriately.
Literacy
  • We will be continuing with our daily Read, Write Inc. groups.
  • Hears and says the initial sounds in words.
  • Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together and knows which letters represent some of them.
  • Writes own name and other things such as labels, captions.
  • Please ensure your child’s reading book is in school on their reading day.
Mathematics
  • Estimates how many objects they can see and checks by counting them.
  • Uses the language of ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ to compare two sets of objects.
  • Selects the correct numeral to represent 1 to 5, then 1 to 10 objects.
  • Says the number that is one more than a given number.
Understanding of the World
  • Completes a simple computer programme.
Expressive Arts and Design
  • Uses simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately.
  • Selects appropriate resources and adapts work where necessary.
  • Creates simple representations of events, people and objects.
Learning Challenge

Each half term we will 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, 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.

Poem/Song to learn: Grand Old Duke of York

The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again.
When they were up, they were up
And when they were down, they were down
And when they were only halfway up
They were neither up nor down.

Painting: Illustrations by Eric Carle

Person: A superhero

Nursery Rhyme Painting Person
1. Learn it off by heart.
2. Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme.
3. Find out about the Duke of York.
1. To find out 3 facts about the illustrator.
2. Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator.
3. To draw a picture in a similar style.
1. Draw a portrait of the superhero.
2. Find out information about the superhero.
 
 


Messages
  • The children may bring in something related to our topic for Show and Tell on Friday.
  • Please make sure your child has a spare change of clothes in school just in case they have any little accidents. The spare change of clothes does not have to be school uniform.
  • We regularly update our EYFS blog. Please like our Broadford Primary Facebook page every time you see an EYFS blog. Feel free to make a comment on the children’s experiences.
  • If you wish to contact a member of the EYFS staff please email them at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Thank you for your support.

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