Reception Newsletter 23.01.17

Term: Spring 1                      Date: 23.01.17

Dear Parents,

This week we will be reading the text ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. 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:

Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.

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

Responds to instructions involving a two-part sequence

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:

Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.

Hears and says the initial sound in words.

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

Mathematics:

Says the number that is one more than a given number.

Finds one more or one less from a group of up to five objects, then ten objects.

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

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:

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