Date: 09.03.15
The children are thoroughly enjoying our topic of ‘Growing and Changing’. On Monday we have a visit from ‘The Wiggly Wild Show’ to carry out a workshop with the children all about ‘Bizarre Babies.’ The children will have an opportunity to look at a diverse selection of hermit crabs, hissing cockroaches, praying mantis, toads, newts, garter snakes, bearded dragon, scorpions, giant millipedes, beetles, giant snails, gecko, hedgehog, stick insects and more! Look out for the pictures on our Facebook page.
This week we will be basing our learning around the story of ‘The Very Lazy Ladybird.’
- Aware of own feelings, and knows that some actions and words can hurt others' feelings.
- Understands that own actions affect other people, for example, becomes upset or tries to comfort another child when they realise they have upset them.
- Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children, e.g. finding a compromise.
- Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.
Communication and Language
- Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations.
- Maintains attention, concentrates and sits quietly during appropriate activity.
- They listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.
- Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
Physical Development
- The children will be continuing to go out in small groups with Mr Portway
- Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
- Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
- Jumps off an object and lands appropriately.
- Experiments with different ways of moving.
- Observes the effects of activity on their bodies
- Travels with confidence and skill, around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.
- 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.
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.
- 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. Remember there are individual awards for the amount of books read.
- Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
- Continues a rhyming string
Mathematics
- Finds the total number of items in two groups by counting all of them.
- In practical activities and discussion, beginning to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting.
- Records, using marks that they can interpret and explain.
- Estimates how many objects they can see and checks by counting them
- Say the number that is one more than a given number
- In practical activities and discussion, begin to use the vocabulary involved in addition.
- Find the total number of items in two groups by counting all of them.
Understanding of the World
- Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family
- Enjoys joining in with family customs and routine.
Expressive Arts and Design
- Initiates new combinations of movement and gesture in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences.
- Plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a narrative.
- Create simple representations of events, people and objects.
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: Jack and Jill went up the hill
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper,
And went to bed to mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.
Person: Mr Bloom
Nursery Rhyme
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Piece of music
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Person
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Basic
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Learn it off by heart
Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme
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Listen to the piece of music
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Draw a portrait of the person.
Watch the person in action
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Advanced
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Find out about Jack and Jill
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Draw an illustration to represent their feelings
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Find out facts about the person
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Deep
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Re write your own version of the nursery rhyme
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Able to name the piece of music when they hear it
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Make/grow something that the person has made/grown
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- 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.
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