Welcome to Summer 1!
I hope you have all had a safe and relaxing Easter break and the Easter Bunny visited each and everyone of you!
This half term we will be learning all about 'Food Glorious Food'. This exciting theme will enable us to learn all about foods from around the world. We will discuss and gain an understanding of our different cultures and celebrations and the variety of foods we eat during these special times.
We will discover how our senses influence our decision when deciding to try new food for the first time and will share our recipes and favourite foods, whilst also discussing our dislikes.
The children will deepen their knowledge and understanding of the measurements weight and capacity and extend their vocabulary through recipes, fiction and non-fiction texts.
This is going to be a delicious topic!
We will be continuing with Dance on Tuesdays and PE on Fridays. Please ensure your child has a full PE kit in school for their lesson.
Please continue to access our online Learning Journey, Dojo, for daily updates on your child's achievements and progress. Also please upload any achievements or exciting moments your child would like to share with their friends. Please check for homework and complete this, homework embeds all the learning your child has covered in school.
I look forward to seeing you all for what will be an exciting topic on your return to our school.
Ms Frankland
Dojo
Dojo is used daily to record observations of your child's progress and development. We link it to the Early Years outcomes and once it has been posted you can see your own child's learning journey.
Just like you, Dojo enables me to observe your child's learning and progress. Please upload any learning or special moments your child carries out at home. I can use any observations uploaded by yourselves to link learning objectives and characteristics of effective learning that your child meets. Observations are how we assess your children daily in class to ensure they are making progress.
Read Write Inc
The children have made astounding progress in their second half term. We will continue our daily Phonics lessons. We have completed our current letter sounds, learning their sound and the mnemonic which supports the letter formation. This half term we will continue to develop our letter formation on lined paper and will continue to develop segmenting words and blending them back together. We will also learn to use our phonetic knowledge, using 'Fred Fingers' to write words.
To support your child with their phonics it would be fantastic if you continue to access any video updates that are put on Dojo. These videos are short and fast but really assist the children with their reading and writing skills.
I will continue to upload RWI videos for homework.
Please encourage your child to log on to their Sumdog account. There are lots of fab number games that will help them with their progress, knowledge and understanding of numbers.
We will be continuing to learn the make-up of numbers., with a continued focus on number bonds to 5, 10, 15 and 20.
We will be using the Power Math‘s Scheme to look at Adding by counting on and Taking away by counting back, Numerical pattern, shape, space and measure
We will be using mathematical vocabulary such as: More or Less, Odd and Even, Counting on and forward and backward. We count from 0 - 20 (and occasionally back from 10—0).