Reception Newsletter 16.01.17

Term: Spring 1                      Date: 16.01.17

Dear Parents,

This week we will be exploring the text ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We have got various activities planned.

Our Learning Objectives for this term are:-

Personal, Social and Emotional:

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks.

Confident to talk to other children when playing, and will communicate freely about own home and community.

                       

Communication and Language:

Uses talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events.

Responds to instructions involving a two-part sequence

Is able to follow directions (if not intently focused on own choice of activity).

Physical Development:

Shows increasing control over an object in pushing, patting, throwing, catching or kicking it.

Can usually manage washing and drying hands.

Understands that equipment and tools have to be used safely.

     

Literacy:

Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.

Enjoys rhyming and rhythmic activities.

Enjoys an increasing range of books.

Mathematics:

Uses positional language

Can describe their relative position such as 'behind' or 'next to

Finds the total number of items in two groups by counting all of them.

Expressive Art and Design:

Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to      represent objects.

Explores colours and how colours can be changed

Explores what happens when they mix colours

Understanding the World:

Beginning to construct, stacking blocks vertically and horizontally, making enclosures and creating spaces

Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change

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.

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:  Choose a Traditional Tale Character   

 Artist/Illustrator: Axel Scheffler

 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,

Reach up high,

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear,

Touch the sky.

Nursery Rhyme	Artist/Illustrator	Person
1.    Learn it off by heart. 2.    Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme. 3.    Find out about stars.	To find out facts about the illustrator. Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator. To draw a picture in a similar style	1. 1.Draw a portrait of the person. 2.   Find out facts about the person. 3. Watch the person in action.

Please keep reading with your children at home.  Furthermore when you do read, write a comment in their reading record so that we know you have read with them.

Kind regards

The Reception Team