Click here to watch a short video about reading with your child at home
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Our Curriculum
Here is a link to our EYFS Long Term Plan: EYFS curriculum map 24-25
Some parts may be subject to change during the year, as we get to know the children and choose to teach to their own particular interests.
To find out the changes to the Early Years Curriculum, click here.
Autumn 2 2024: Let's Celebrate!
Welcome back Little Scarlet class! We hope you had a lovely half term break making lots of memories with your friends and family! This half term is all about celebrations! We will be looking at the following celebrations and understanding why they are celebrated; Bonfire night, Diwali, Remembrance Day and of course Christmas towards the end of the term. Our stories we read will be based around these celebrations, make sure you check the book list on the door each week for that weeks stories. Our circle time discussions and SCARF sessions will be centred around valuing differences. This will look at similarities and differences between us all and understanding that this is all ok and makes the world an amazing place (it would be very boring if we were all the same)!
PE sessions will mainly take place in the hall. The children will need to ensure their PE bag is kept at school on their peg so we can practise being independent in getting ourselves dressed. The children will bring their PE bags home every half term to be washed (unless they have an accident in school, in which case will need to be returned to school before their next PE session).
We ask for the children to share their reading book with you at least 3 times a week and to be recorded (individually) in their reading records please. If your child wants to read another story please do not discourage this it can also be recorded in the reading diary. If you find your child is reading the book fluently and it is 'too easy', please encourage your child to practise their comprehension skills before requesting a change of book, for example, what was the main character called? Where did the children go? What do you think might happen next? Why does that character feel that way? etc. Sometimes children can read the words but the understanding of what they read might not always be evident so would be great if you could also encourage this at home as we would in school.
If you have any questions about any aspect of your child's learning this half term, please speak to a member of the team. A very in-depth explanation of our curriculum can be found above in our 'curriculum map'.
Weekly Update
WB 16th December
Friday 20th - Last day of term
What will we be learning about this week?
We will be reading Santa needs a wee! and other Christmas stories this week as well as singing Christmas and Nativity songs. We will discuss the celebration of Christmas and how different people celebrate around the world. We will also be looking at the season Winter and the changes that happen in our environment when this season arrives.
There are some helpful videos on YouTube (Ludlow Learning's page) linked to our Little Wandle Phonics scheme (see link\video at the bottom of this page). This website will show you how we teach the children to form letters and the correct pronunciation of the sounds.
In our Maths lessons we will be continuing our learning about shapes with four sides. We will also be recapping some learning we have done previously in the term.
Circle times this week will continue to be focused on I am a friend. Discussing how we can be a good friend and the attributes that goes with this. We will also look at why it is important to be a good friend. We will be having 'buddies' to play with possibly someone new and share ideas and choosing time with a partner we may not usually play with.
Our home learning idea for this week is...
Write a Christmas card and share it with the class.
(Any home learning that is recorded i.e. pictures, labels, art work etc. will be shown in during carpet time and temporarily displayed in the classroom.)
Letter Formation
Here is a video of how we teach letter formation at Tiptree Heath. Hopefully this is helpful for practise at home.
(This video was made using clips from the YouTube account: Ludlow Learning)
PE
We will not be doing PE sessions this week. We will be developing our physical skills in the form of circle/party games and within the classroom with construction blocks and fine motor tasks.
This half term we will be learning Body Management. We will be looking at different ways we can balance, stretch and extend our bodies plus learning how to control and manage our movements.
Useful website links for Reception:
Recommended Reading for Autumn 2
Here are some ideas of books you could borrow from your local library to support our learning this term:
The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child by Julia Donaldson
Stickman by Julia Donaldson
Nativity stories by various
Father Christmas needs a wee! by Nicholas Allan
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss
The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
My First Book of Patterns by Bobby and June George
A-B-A-B-A – A Book of Pattern Play by Brian P. Cleary
Triangle by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban
Five Little Fiends by Sarah Dyer
Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin
Stella to Earth! by Simon Puttock and Philip Hopman
Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Helen Oxenbury
For a list of general recommended reads in EYFS, click here
For information about how we teach phonics at school, take a look at this page of the school website.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources - good for phonics games (many are free)
http://twinkl.co.uk/ - thousands of resources, some of which can be accessed for free
https://www.topmarks.co.uk - online maths games for primary school children, sorted by age
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html - online games again useful for phonics
https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books/themes/all-activities - Creative activities about characters, illustrations superheroes etc.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7D-mXO4kk-XWvH6lBXdrPw - stories and poems performed by Michael Rosen
https://www.coolmath4kids.com - Online games, great interactive manipulatives, lessons, quizzes and brain teasers
https://easyscienceforkids.com - activities about understanding the world
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/ - articles, activities and games
https://artfulparent.com - art and craft ideas
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5XMF3Inoi8R9nSI8ChOsdQ -how to draw videos for children