Dear Parents and carers, Term: Summer 1
We hope you have had a wonderful holiday with your families and are rested for the exciting term ahead. The children have settled back and have been excited to share their Easter holiday news. It has been amazing hearing about all of the children’s adventures. This term, we will be revisiting our rules and expectations in the setting ensuring we remember all of our jobs!
Baby Photos
Please could you email a photo of your child as a baby. Alternatively we can photocopy hard copies of photos and return originals.
Please email: eyfs@broadford.Havering.sch.uk
Subject: Baby Photo Child/Children’s Name & Class
Reading
We will continue to share our home learning pages each week. The home learning document is a great way to see what we will be learning each week in class too. Each week we will still be sharing a sound session, and the word and spelling time sessions too. If you are unsure of your child’s RWI group, please email us at eyfs@broadford.Havering.sch.uk.
The children’s reading is progressing well, with some strong sound recognition and blending skills. The more they practice these skills the more fluent your child will become at decoding words, this then allows them to develop their comprehension skills. We would like to remind everyone that the school’s expectations related to homework, is to read every day.
Try to make reading a part of your daily routine, finding a time that this fits in with your schedules at home. This could be when you first get home from school or after dinner. This time could include your child reading to you, practising reading green and red words, practising sound recognition or sharing a story together.
105 Books to Read.
Please remember to record your 105 reading books and bring your child’s record to school. Your child will receive a certificate for every 5, 10 and 15 books read! This time should be in addition to a bedtime story, where you are reading just for pleasure. Aim for ten minutes a day. Of course there will be days when it doesn’t happen due to special events, trips out or extreme tiredness.
Growing and Changing Topic
Our focus this term will be Growing and Changing. We will be growing our own plants, and butterflies this term. We will also be looking at similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things. Our focus texts this term will be, Jack and The Beanstalk, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Bad Tempered Ladybird, The Teeny Weeny Tadpole, Naughty Bus and Major Glad, Major Dizzy.
Communication and Language
We are encouraging children to use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events. The children will also be encouraged to discuss and share about their holidays, home life and the environment. Our focus this term will be on growing and changing.
Physical Development
As we continue to develop the children’s fine motor strength we are now also focusing on their letter and number formation as well. Particularly encouraging and correcting backwards formed letters and numbers. This term we will be focusing on our letter and number formation, ensuring the children have the right patterns, formation and direction. It is vital we encourage these from the beginning, so the children do not form bad habits. We ask if your child is writing at home and forms a letter or number backwards that you work with them to write it the correct way. We will also be continuing with fine motor activities to strengthen our hand and finger muscles. Of course we will still be working on our gross motor skills in the outdoor areas and during PE lessons. The PE sessions will take place on Mondays.
Maths
We will begin the term recapping our number recognition to 20. We will be practising ordering numbers 0-20 as well as saying one more/less than a given number to 20, adding and subtracting single digit numbers, doubling and halving to 20 and measures.
Literacy
We will be writing recounts of our holidays, writing about our ‘dream week’. We will be focusing on writing simple sentences that we can read back, as well as spelling our red words correctly. We will also be focusing on life cycles of caterpillars and tadpoles, creating food diaries, and looking at how the children have changed and grown too.
Understanding the World
The children will be planting their own seeds and looking at different parts of plants. We will be caring for our own class caterpillars and looking at the life cycles of butterflies, frogs and other animals too.
Helpful Websites:
Phonics Play (https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/): Click on the free phonics play and then children for phonics games. Most children are working within phase two or three at this point. Our favourite games are Picnic on Pluto (reading real and alien words) and Pick a Picture.
Topmarks (https://www.topmarks.co.uk/): Lots of maths games that are Early Years appropriate.
Messages:
Please ensure your child has a named set of spare clothes on their peg at all times.
All uniform should be labelled with your child’s name including shoes!
Please can toys from home stay at home. We have lots in school and it saves toys being lost or broken.
We ask that your child’s reading book is in school on their reading day each week so it can be changed and your child read with.
If you have any questions or concerns please speak to your class teacher. If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is: eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk
Kind regards,
The Reception Team
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