Reception Newsletter 22.2.16

Reception Newsletter 22.02.16

We hope you all had a restful half term break. This half term our topic is 'Growing and Changing'. This week we will focus our learning around the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. Each class has a butterfly hatching kit, the children will have a great opportunity to watch caterpillars change into chrysalids and then emerge as beautiful Painted Lady Butterflies. 

Due to of the volume of drink money being collected, distributed and organising the change for drinks is beginning to take away valuable teaching time.  We kindly request that if you would like your child to purchase a drink (30p each) that they bring in the correct money daily in a labelled purse, envelope or wallet, which can be kept in your child's tray.

These are the skills we will be focusing on this week;

Personal, Social and Emotional:
Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.
Encouraging children to negotiate and solve problems without aggression e.g. when someone has taken their toy.

Communication and Language:
Encouraging children to ask ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions in their play.
Modelling extending sentences encouraging children to explain their reasoning.

Physical Development:
Ensuring the children use the correct pencil grip.
Throwing and catching a large ball.

Literacy:
Writing captions to explain the life-cycle of a butterfly.
Writing letters to the Hungry Caterpillar.
Encouraging the children to use their phonics in their play and write simple captions.

Mathematics:
Beginning to use mathematical names for 'solid' 3D shapes and 'flat' 2D shapes, and mathematical terms to describe shapes.

Understanding of the World:
Looking at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
Focusing on the life-cycle of the Hungry Caterpillar.
Thank you to the parents who have already emailed in their children's baby photos. We will be using these as a prompt over the half term to discuss how the children have grown and changed over time. If you are able to please email your picture to: eyfs@broadford.org, or hand in a photo we can photocopy.

Expressive Arts and Design:
Introducing a story line or narrative into their group play.