Hello everyone and welcome to Term 5! We hope you had a great Easter and a well deserved break. We have a busy term ahead and we are looking forward to introducing our new topic ‘In the Garden’ to the children! Over the next few weeks we will be focusing on several stories based around this topic. Our first story of the term is ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk.’ by Mick Inkpen.
Observation challenge: Thank you for all the photographs of the chocolate cakes that have been made. They all look very yummy and we can see that you had lots of fun making them. This week’s challenge: Usually we would have a class visit to Henleaze Garden Centre but we are unable to do that this year. If you can visit a garden centre with your child we would love to see some photos on Evidence Me!
Notices
- This term our start and finish times will be the same as for the rest of the school to enable social distancing
Odd numbers – Classes 1 & 3 – will start at 8.45am and finish at 3.15 . Even numbers – Class 2 – will start at 9.00am and finish at 3.30pm. If you have an older child please drop them off first and use the one way system.
- We will be planting beans and sunflowers in the next few weeks and would appreciate any donations of small plant pots and potting compost. Thank you!
This week’s Learning
The full plans are available here if you are isolating at home.
PSED
We will continue with our Jigsaw sessions on Healthy Me. This week, we are learning about the importance of a good night’s sleep. We will also continue to do daily wellbeing activities.
Communication and Language
We will be reading and sequencing the story of Jasper’s beanstalk. We will learn the meaning of any new vocabulary and talk about our own experiences of gardening. We will be playing in our new Garden Centre role play area.
Physical
Gross motor skills: This term we will be using Jasmine Real Gym for our PE lessons. This week we are focusing on floor work We will continue to use WriteDance – each class is at a different point in the WriteDance story. Fine Motor Skills: This week we will be making writing patterns to support the formation of the ‘curly caterpillar’ letters.
Literacy
Phonics Over the next few weeks we will be revisiting all the digraphs and trigraphs we have learnt so far. This week we will focusing on ai, ee, igh We will also be practicing spelling the tricky words was, you
Reading This week we will be reading with the children 1:1 or in small guided reading groups. Please remember to try and read with your child for 10 minutes every day.
Writing This week we will be writing about what we did over the Easter holidays.
Mathematics
This week we will continue to learn all about numbers to 20:
- Recognising the numerals
- Ordering numerals to 20
- Counting to 20 and back down from 20
- Knowing one more and one less to 20
- Counting objects to 20 in different ways.
We will also be learning about pairs and about doubling numbers. In our role play area we will be using money to shop in our Garden Centre. We will be looking at and sorting all the different coins Through the story of Jaspers Beanstalk we will revisit the days of the week.
Understanding the World
This week we will be planting beans in transparent pots so that we can observe and record by drawing and taking photographs the growth of their roots and shoots.
RE : We are beginning a new series of RE lessons based around the question: “How should we live our lives?” This week, we will start by considering how our actions might make others feel.
Expressive Arts
This week will be looking at the pips (seeds) inside our fruit (apples, pears, oranges) and using the cut fruit to print patterns. We will be singing songs about springtime and growing. (outside). In our new role play area we will be imagining we are working or shopping in a garden centre. Planting, buying and selling flowers and plants.