Tuesday 21 February 2017

Reception Newsletter


Term: Spring 2                      Date: 20.02.17
Dear Parents,
We will be starting our knew topic this half term ‘Fact or Fiction?’ with a particular focus on Superheroes.  This week we will be reading various texts and looking at the character  ‘Sportacus’ from Lazy Town.  We will be looking at healthy food choices and making smoothies with the children.

Our Learning Objectives for this term are:-
Personal, Social and Emotional:
Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.
Shows confidence in asking adults for help.
Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.
                       
Communication and Language:
Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.
Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations.
Can retell a simple past event in correct order.

Physical Development:
Eats a healthy range of foodstuffs and understands the need for variety in food.
Shows understanding of the need for good practices with regards to exercise, eating, sleeping, and hygiene can contribute to good health.
Show an understanding of a need for safety when tackling new challenges and considers and manages risks.

Literacy:
Recognises rhythm in spoken words
Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.
Hears and says the initial sound in words.

Mathematics:
Estimates how many objects they can see and checks by counting them.
Recognise some numerals of personal significance.
Counts an irregular arrangement of up to ten objects.

Expressive Art and Design:
Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources.
Builds stories around toys, e.g. farm animals needing rescue from an armchair 'cliff'.Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to      represent objects.

Understanding the World:
Enjoys joining in with family customs and routines
Beginning to construct, stacking blocks vertically and horizontally, making enclosures and creating spaces
Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change

Messages.
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, famous person, 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.
 Person:  A Super Hero
 Piece of Music: Johann-Strauss Radetzky: March
 Poem/Song to learn: Jack and Jill went up the hill

Nursery Rhyme
Piece of music
Person
1.    Learn it off by heart.
2.    Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme.
3.    Find out about the origin of the rhyme.
  1. Listen to the music and dance to it.
  2. Find out facts about the composer.
  3. Produce a collage or picture to illustrate the piece of music.
1. Draw a portrait of the person.
2.   Find out facts about the person.
3. Watch the person in action.

Dates for your Diary:

Friday 24th February - Reading Stay and Play (Letters have been given out, please ask a member of staff if you have not received one)
Thursday 2nd March - World Book Day
Wednesday 1st March - Jump Evolution (please see separate letter)

Kind regards
The Reception Team
                                       


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