Lake Class - Planning

‘Let’s go on an Adventure!!!’ 

We will be adventuring into the worlds of ‘Space’, ‘Night and Day’, ‘Under the Sea’ and ‘Pirates’ .

Through talk, play and Special Guest’s!? We will be encouraging story-telling, sequencing ideas and developing our vocabulary.  We will be building on our phonic knowledge to develop our writing, we will be exploring numbers up to ten and continuing exploring the properties of shape.  We will also be exploring our beautiful environment to observe the seasonal change and learn about festivals including Chinese New Year, Lent, Mother’s Day and of course Easter. 

This term, as part of Understanding the World and developing children’s sense of place, people and communities, we have organised a trip to Salisbury Library and the Charter Market, let me know if you would like to come along and help.

See below to see an overview of the activities we will be doing across the seven Areas of Learning that link with our theme more details are on our Topic Web;

Topic Web Spring Lake Class

This term we will be :

• • Continuing Phase 3 letter sounds with two letters (digraphs) or three letters (trigraphs), phonic mats will be put in your child’s reading folder.
  • Reading and writing letters learnt so far in simple words.
  • Developing our number sense up to 10.
  • Exploring the properties of shape and developing our special reasoning.
  • Sequencing familiar stories and using props to retell stories.
  • Learning about and celebrating festivals such as Chinese New Year,  Lent and Easter.
  • We will continue our lovely ‘welly walks’ to explore our beautiful environment so make sure your child has a pair of wellies and waterproof or warm clothes in school.

Things to try at home-

• Continue to practise reading and writing the letter sounds on your sound mat.
• Practise writing your name.
• Keep reading every day
• Keep adding entries to Tapestry to tell us about clubs, activities and any fun learning at home, we love to share them in class.

Can I remind parents to please name all items of clothing even shoes ! and water bottles it causes such an upset when they get lost and we try our best to ensure children look after their belongings but things do get misplaced.

If you have any worries or problems or even ‘wow’ moments at home do come in and speak to us we will be happy to resolve any issues.

We have PE on Wednesday morning and Gym on Thursday morning, can children come into school in their PE kit on those days.

Children only need to bring in a book bag, a named water bottle and a lunch box if needed.

If you have any worries or problems or even ‘wow’ moments at home do come in and speak to us we will be happy to resolve any issues.

For more information about Early Years please look at our curriculum page EYFS or click on the link https://www.woodfordvalley.wilts.sch.uk/EYFS/

Parent Helpers

We will welcome parents in to help this term to encourage speaking and listening and following instructions and friendships, we would like a volunteer to play board games, if you have a free afternoon please let us know.