This half term, our Reception children will be learning all about what happens on a farm and how food ends up in our lunchbox. During this time, we will be exploring a range of fiction and nonfiction books to find out facts about farms, animals and growing and enrich our story telling knowledge. We will be investigating a range of foods and where they come from, how plants grow, and what maps are used for. We will be using our communication skills to ask questions to find out more and discuss our topic.  

In English, we will be continuing Little Wandle Phonics sessions where the children will be learning new graphemes, blending words for reading, reading tricky words and reading longer sentences and words. The children will be re-introduced to the phrase “chunk it” to help them break up a word with multiple syllables and segment for spelling.  These sessions will take place daily. Children will have sounds and tricky words sent home which they will need to be practicing as much as possible at home.

We will also have an English lesson which will focus on our current topic work. During this time, we will learn lots of new vocabulary, different ways to recall stories, and nonfiction books, make up our own stories, sentence writing, putting our phonics into action, share our ideas about our key texts, create descriptions, fact manuals, recipe cards and instruction manuals.  

The second week back we will have a story book focus of some of our favourite texts. On the Thursday of that week it is World Book day (5^th March) where we will be celebrating lots of different stories, Authors and Illustrators and dressing up as our favourite story characters

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Key Texts: The Gruffalo, Elmer, How did that get in my lunch box? And ‘What the ladybird heard’

This half term, we will be continuing to explore the provision areas, during this time adults will extend our learning through well thought-out conversations whilst sharing this space with our friends. We will be discovering new skills, investigating provisions and completing focus task activities whilst becoming independent learners. We will go on a few adventures outdoors to our lovely field and wooded area to discover changes in the natural environment. We will be developing our Welly Walks throughout the next 2 seasons using natural resources and working as a team.  

We will have a natural world focus, exploring farmyards and what produce is created from farms such as; cheese, bread, milk, butter, ice cream, yoghurts omelettes and cakes. We will be investigating growing and observing what plants need to grow big and strong

In Maths, we follow a Maths Mastery approach to learning number, shape and measurement. We have a daily maths activities where we practice counting, naming shapes, sequencing, more and less than a given number, measures, day, month, time and year; this really helps the children understand and use mathematical language.

This half term our main focus will be learning about time, introducing the clock and talking about familiar times of the day such as the time to start school, for lunch, for the end of the school day. ​You could practice at home by looking at breakfast time, tea time and bed time.

This half term we will be continuing learning all about the numbers in a practical way helping the children to grasp a deeper understanding of numbers 1-10. Our main focus will be; counting, number order, number composition and number comparison, the children will be expected to use mathematical language when talking about number and explaining their own number investigations.  Our maths sessions will consist of a variety of ways to learn numbers such as; singing songs, playing games, telling stories and solving problems. Each number we learn will have a rhyme to help the children remember how to form the numeral. The rhyme sheet is attached to this letter.

Expressive Arts and Design

This half term, our children will be exploring 2 new junk modelling skills joining with staples and joining using knots. Our artist of the half term is Giuseppeill be exploring different cultures, religious celebrations, and family routines.  Our children will be exploring 2 new junk modelling skills joining with staples and joining using knots. Our artist of the half term is Giuseppe Arcimboldo; they will be using real fruit to create faces.  

They will continue using the craft area independently by selecting the materials and equipment they need to create their own master pieces.

We will also be singing lots of songs as we head in into spring and using our bodies to create actions to go with the lyrics. The Reception children will now start attending singing assembly on a Tuesday morning which they are sure to enjoy and develop a love of singing with the whole school.       

They will continue using the craft area independently by selecting the materials and equipment they need to create their own master pieces.

We will also be singing lots of songs as we head in into spring and using our bodies to create actions to go with the lyrics. The Reception children will now start attending singing assembly on a Tuesday morning which they are sure to enjoy and develop a love of singing with the whole school.       

They will continue using the craft area independently by selecting the materials and equipment they need to create their own master pieces.

We will also be singing lots of songs as we head in into spring and using our bodies to create actions to go with the lyrics. The Reception children will now start attending singing assembly on a Tuesday morning which they are sure to enjoy and develop a love of singing with the whole school.       

They will continue using the craft area independently by selecting the materials and equipment they need to create their own master pieces.

We will also be singing lots of songs as we head in into spring and using our bodies to create actions to go with the lyrics. The Reception children will now start attending singing assembly on a Tuesday morning which they are sure to enjoy and develop a love of singing with the whole school.       

compositions of fruit to create faces.                                                                                                                                      

RE

Our RE topic is What is Easter?      

We will be exploring signs of spring, baby animals, Easter celebration, Easter story and Easter symbols and what they mean as well as different cultures, religious celebrations, and family routines