Sunday, 15 March 2015

Weekly Reception Newsletter 16.03.15

Term: Spring 2
Date: 16.03.15

Reception Cycle & Scooter Day: Tuesday 17th March
Don’t forget your scooters and cycles for the Reception CAD event on Tuesday, bring one or both. The activities will be taking place on the playground. Please bring your scooters and bikes down to the Reception area and leave  them outside the classrooms.

This week we will be basing our learning around the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’

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
  • Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities.
  • Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children, e.g. finding a compromise.
  • Beginning to be able to negotiate and solve problems without aggression, e.g. when someone has taken their toy.
  • Understands that own actions affect other people, for example, becomes upset or tries to comfort another child when they realise they have upset them.
Communication and Language
  • Two-channelled attention - can listen and do for short span.
  • Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
  • Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
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.
  • Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
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
  • Breaks the flow of speech into words
Mathematics
  • In practical activities and discussion, beginning to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting.
  • Records, using marks that they can interpret and explain.
  • Counts an irregular arrangement of up to ten objects.
  • Orders two items by weight or capacity.
  • Uses familiar objects and common shapes to create and recreate patterns and build models.
  • Uses everyday language related to time.
  • Beginning to use everyday language related to money
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 routines
  • Completes a simple program on a computer.
  • Uses ICT hardware to interact with age-appropriate computer software.
  • They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
Expressive Arts and Design
  • Initiates new combinations of movement and gesture in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences.
  • Explores the different sounds of instruments. (media and materials)
  • Plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a narrative
  • Plays alongside other children who are engaged in the same theme.
  • Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
  • Create simple representations of events, people and objects.
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: 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.

Piece of music: March Johann-Strauss Radetzky

Person: Mr Bloom
 

Nursery Rhyme
Piece of music
Person
Basic
Learn it off by heart
Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme
Listen to the piece of music
 
Draw a portrait of the person.
Watch the person in action
Advanced
Find out about Jack and Jill
Draw an illustration to represent their feelings
Find out facts about the person
Deep
Re write your own version of the nursery rhyme
Able to name the piece of music when they hear it
Make/grow something that the person has  made/grown

 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.







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