Term 4

What are we doing this term?

Maths: Numbers 6, 7 and 8, making pairs, doubling, combining two groups, learning about length and height, time, 9 and 10, number bonds to 10, doubles up to 10 and odd and even numbers.

English: We will be sharing the stories - Tad, Mrs Wolf's Pancakes, Mrs Noah's Garden, Martha Maps it out and the Story Orchestra.

Phonics: We will continue with phase 3 phonics oo, ar, ur, oo, or, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er and ow. We will continue developing our segmenting and blending skills during our phonics lessons.

Foundation: We will be learning about life cycles, particularly looking at frogs, growing and changing, seasons, learning about different plants and thinking about what makes them grow, learning about maps and giving directions.

PE: We will be learning about how to use equipment within our lessons. The children will learn about rolling, throwing and catching balls and using our body to control a ball by dribbling and stopping the ball.

What can you do at home?

Continue daily reading.

Continue using the phonics pack to help build words.

Practise forming letters.

Write simple cvc words.

Write simple captions.

Recognising harder to read and spell words.

Practise counting orally and objects up to 8.

Identify 1 more and 1 less than numbers up to 8.

Practise writing numbers to 8. 

If you have any questions, please do come and see us, send us a Dojo message or email us.

Forest School: Our Forest School sessions will be held on a Thursday morning, the children will need to come to school in forest school clothing in preparation for this. Please could you ensure that you send the children in with their waterproof clothing (and thermals when it is cold) for our forest school sessions. They will inevitably get muddy but this is all part of the enjoyment of being outdoors. We will keep their wellies at school.

Library: On Wednesday, we will visit the Library. Please send in your child's old book to be changed then, your child will not be issued a new library book until we have received the old ones back.

Reading books: Your child will bring home reading books linked directly to the phonics teaching in class.

We will be changing the reading books on a Monday and Thursday.

Early books allow children to learn how stories are structured including: how to turn pages and the order and direction in which they read without the pressure of too many words. Children will enjoy talking about what they can see and making links to some of their own experiences.

 Activities and ideas when you are reading with your child:

• Allow your child to organise and hold the book themselves.
• Allow them to turn the pages.
• Respond to your child’s ideas by repeating their ideas back and introducing new words to increase their vocabulary.
• Look at the front cover and discuss the title with your child.
• Talk about any similar experience your child has had that might relate to their book/story.
• Encourage your child to add in suitable sounds and actions whilst telling the story.
• Ask your child to point to things that can be seen on the page e.g. The orange cat.

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