Come Outside
This half term we will be continuing our learning about the great outdoors. Our focus will be minibeasts and aimals which we might find in the garden. We will be looking at lifecycles and will have some hands on experience of exploring, holding and caring for a range of exciting minibeasts.
PSED
Our theme in Jigsaw this half term is 'Relationships' our learning will be focussed on the importance of our families and friendships. We will explore how all of our families are different and all special. Jigsaw Jenie will help us to think about how we can be a good friend as well as learning more about bullying- what it is and what we should do if we are worried.
Physical Development
In the Lobsters we will be continuing with PE and the children will be pleased to find out that we will be using the large equipment to support our learning about joining movements and balances.
We have seen huge improvements in the children's fine motor skills in particular their drawing and the details included in their drawings, our daily Drawing Club sessions have really helped with this. An area that many of the children still need to work on is letter formation and ensuring that we are forming our letters correctly. Please continue to practice your letter formation at home using the formation sheet which we shared at parents evening.
Literacy
We have now introduced all of the sounds we cover in Reception through Monster Phonics and the children are very confident now at recognisiing them. Our work in this coming half term will be developing our confidence in using these sounds to support our reading and writing. Many of the children are now well in the swing of guided reading where we are reading a text throughout the week to become familiar with it before sending it home for you to practice at home. It is important that we teach the children to think about what they have read and what it means, this can sometimes be a bit tricky especially when the children are working so hard to decode the words. Practice re reading the full sentences back to your child and encouraging them to do the same, this will help them with their comprehension skills. This is why it is important that the children read their reading books at home as much as possible.
Some of the key texts that we will be sharing this half term will be The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Bug Collector and Mad about Minibeasts.
