Weekly Reception Newsletter 13.04.15

Term: Summer 1                      
Date: 13.04.15

We hope you all had a very enjoyable Easter break. This week we beginning our new topic of 'The world Around us (including Cultural and fantasy Stories)'.

This week we will be basing our learning around the story of ‘Handa's Surprise'. We will be going on a walk around our local area comparing where we live to where Handa lives in Africa.

Your child will be taking part in the following activities within the seven areas of development (activities are subject to change, depending on the children’s interests; however, the skills remain the same):

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Discuss where the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’ is set. We will be locating Africa on a map. We will be encouraging the children to discuss differences between Africa and England.

Communication and Language

• Sharing the story Handa’s Surprise. Where do they think the story is set? Why? Encourage children to retell the story using different props. 

Physical Development

• Children show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements.
• They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space.
• Fine manipulative skills set up daily to improve children’s pencil control.

Literacy

• We will be continuing with our daily Read, Write Inc. groups.
• Please keep practising ‘Fred talking’ the words we send home and encouraging your child to you’re their ‘Fred Fingers’ to help them spell the words.
• The children need to be bringing in their reading books daily. We praise the children who regularly read at home to an adult and have a reward system in place
• Writing our names encouraging correct pencil grip.
• Writing captions for the photos we take on our local area walk

Mathematics

• Children solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
• Using resources in the classroom to practically solve doubling problems. Children will be encourage children to record their calculations on whiteboards.
• Learning the doubling rap
• Sharing the snack out at snack time
• Weighing the different fruits to find out which is heavier or lighter?
• Completing addition calculation, learning to count on from a given number.

Understanding of the World

• Looking at similarities and differences between themselves and Handa in Africa.
• Looking at the different traditions we have and others too
• Talking about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another

Expressive Arts and Design

• Children safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
• Enjoying our daily dance warm up to the ‘5 a day’ fitness programme.
• Observational drawings of fruits.
• Fruit printings.

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.

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: Teddy bear, Teddy bear

Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn around!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch the ground!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Jump up high!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch the sky!

Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Bend down low!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch you toes!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn out the light!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Say good night!

Painting: Illustrations Axel Scheffler (illustrator)

Person: Famous Disney character

	Nursery Rhyme	Painting	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart	To find out 3 facts about the illustrator	Watch the superhero in action
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	To draw a picture in a similar style	Draw a portrait of the superhero
Deep	Find out about the Duke of York	Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator	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 constant support.