Come Outside
This half term we will be basing our learning on all things in the great outdoors. We will learn about the changing seasons, life cycles of plants and animals and what we can do to care for living things in our environment.
PSED
Our theme in Jigsaw this half term is 'Healthy Me' our learning will be based upon all the things we need to do to have healthy minds and bodies. We will be learning about heathy eating, exercise, keeping clean, the importance of sleep and also touch on keeping safe and stranger danger. Jigsaw Jenie will help us to think about what we can do to make sure we all live healthy lives. We will also be learning about the importance of brushing our teeth and good oral hygiene. Our school nurse Jane will spend some time with us talking about how to look after our teeth. You can help at home support your child to brush their teeth twice daily at home and talk to them about why this is important for them to have healthy strong teeth. Have a go at playing this online game about brushing your teeth too.
Physical Development
We will be taking every opportunity to get outside and get busy in our garden. We still have some tidying to do after the winter. Mrs Graham is our keen gardener and she is always looking for helping hands to support her with the digging and planting. We will be learning all about our bodies and what we need for them to work at their best and keep them healthy.
In the Lobsters we will be continuing with PE and the childrenwill 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. Monster Phonics have a new information sheet which we will send home to support with writing and forming letters at home.
Literacy
In Monster Phonics we will soon be continuing to learn new sounds through the Monsters and will be able to use when blending and segmenting words. We will focus on learning even more High Frequency words to help support our reading skills. 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 a couple of times
We will read some key texts this half term including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Jack and the Beanstalk and Fran's Flower we will be linking lots of our writing tasks to these texts as well as reading range of information texts about Spring, growing and lifecycles.
