This Term
Spring 2 - Where We Live
Our topic this half term is WHERE WE LIVE! We will talk about where we belong, our homes, and the local area. We will learn about places of significance in the Meadows and will learn about significant community events and celebrations. We will also be learning about the celebrations of Ramadan, Mother’s Day, and Easter this half term.
Our big questions that we will be answering over the course of our topic:
1. Can you identify special places on the map?
2. Can you explain why these places are special?
3. Can you talk about special events in the community?
What makes our community special?
As always, we will engage with quality texts and visual material to support our learning around our topic. Here are the stories we will be focusing on this half term.
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Stay and Read
Developing a love of reading at an early age will support your child's listening and attention skills, vocabulary development and understanding of the world around them. Your child will be bringing home a book from our 'library' for you to share together at home. This could include talking about what you can see in the pictures, other books that have similar characters, or what you and your child liked or didn't like about the story. We also hold Stay and Read every Friday from 8:45-9am, please join us for this, if you are able, to share in stories with your child.
Drawing Club:
Drawing Club is a special club that promotes confidence in mark making, imagination and writing skills. We use our focus books (as shown above on the page) to teach elements of writing.
The structure drawing club follows is:
Moment 1: Vocabulary Development
Moment 2: Listening to the story
Moment 3: Modelled drawing
Moment 4: Drawing Club. This aspect may be linked to the main character in the book, the setting or adventure time.
If you would like some more information about drawing club, or would like to see your child's work, just ask a member of staff.
PE:
PE will happen every Thursday. Please come to school wearing your sports leggings or trousers - there is no need for the children to get changed at school. We kindly ask you to support your child with taking off and putting on their socks and shoes. The more they practise this at home, the more independent they will become in PE lessons.
Forest School:
Forest School happens every Monday. The time spent in Forest School helps the children explore our wonderful forest school space, and further develop their outdoor learning skills. Our children learn the importance of looking after our environment, alongside lots of knowledge about the world around them. A reminder to send in a pair of wellies to be kept at school.
Phonics and Reading:
We follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds scheme at ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½. All children will bring a reading book home with them. This will begin as a wordless book, which is used to encourage language development first, and then move onto books with simple words and phrases in for the children to decode on their own. Please speak to staff if you have any questions or would like any support with phonics.
Maths
In maths this term, we will be continuing to develop our understanding of the ‘staircase pattern’, ordering numbers to 10. We will also look at doubling and at how some numbers can be made of 2 equal parts. We will learn about odd and even numbers too.
In Shape, Space and Measure, we will learn about 3D shapes; how to recognise them in real-life objects and how to describe their properties. We will learn the days of the week in order and will continue our learning about weight. At the end of the half term we will learn about position and direction, and will use this learning in our egg hunt!