A message from your teachers
Summer 1
We hope that you have all had a super Easter holiday and have had chance to have a rest and have some fun! We are looking forward to hearing all about your adventures.
Our daily routine
As the children move through their Reception year, our daily routine and timetable changes to meet their needs.
During Summer 1, the children will continue to have lots of opportunities for indoor and outdoor play and exploration.
We will continue to have daily carpet times for topic/ English, phonics and maths as well as regular adult directed activities linked to this learning.
The children will continue to take part in 'drawing club' each week and we will be encouraging all children to 'have a go' at writing letters, words and captions too. We have been so impressed with the wonderful drawings the children have produced so far and can't wait to see what they can do this half term.
The children have been enjoying their PE lessons, music lessons and R.E. sessions and we will continue to do these this half term. Please see the overview below for details of what we will be learning.
We will be continuing our handwriting sessions this half term using the kinetic letters program. Children will be learning to form the remainder of the lower case letters and will be practising writing these letters on white boards and in words. For those that are ready, we will be trying to reduce the size of our letters and trying to keep letters snuggled within a word.
WonderWood sessions will continue each week so please keep an eye on the class dojo page for weekly updates about what we have been doing. As our balance bike sessions have come to an end, we will be making time within our outdoor provision time for the children to ride on our school balance bikes and scooters.
Summer 1 theme - What will grow? What will hatch out of the egg?
We will begin this half term by focussing on Spring time and investigating how plants grow. The second half of the term will concentrate on animals and we will be investigating which animals hatch out of eggs. We will be having our own delivery of eggs and hopefully will be having some feathery friends joining us in class!
There is such a lot to do and learn this half term; we can not wait to get started. Full details of our Summer 1 curriculum can be found below. If you have any questions, please speak to one of the team and we will do our best to help. Please check the class newsletter (sent via ParentMail each Friday) and the class page on class dojo for further information about our learning in class each week. We will keep this updated with lots of photos of the things we are doing in class and reminders about things to come.
Take care everyone.
Mrs Darby, Mrs Price, Mrs Raxton and Ms Coley