Aire
Aire - Foundation
Nursery and Reception
Our topic this half term is ‘The Great Outdoors.’ We have already begun to plant seeds in our outside area including beans and wild flowers. We are all looking forward to seeing the plants start to grow and learning how to take care of them. The children in particular will enjoy using the watering cans which helps to strengthen our gross motor skills. The children don’t know yet but we are patiently waiting for our tiny caterpillars to arrive! Exciting. In topic and craft sessions we will be painting sunflowers in the style of Georgia O’Keeffe, labelling the different parts of a plant, making a split pin caterpillar and doing line drawings of snails.
Nursery
Our focus books in Nursery this half term are:
· Jack and the Beanstalk
· Jasper’s Beanstalk
· The Hungry Caterpillar
· The Snail and the Whale
· Superworm
Look out on Tapestry for activities which the children will be doing linked to these books.
Reception
In English this half term we will be reading ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.’ ‘A seed in need’ and ‘Snail Trail’. The books will help us to write sentences, labels and lists. Our main focus this half term when writing sentences is to remember to use finger spaces, full stops and all of the words in the sentence. We all need to try really hard forming our letters too – lots of handwriting practise is happening. In Maths we will be looking at teen numbers in detail. We will look at how the numbers are represented in different ways. To help your child you could go on a teen number hunt and see which numbers you can spot. We will also be exploring 3D shapes.
Please continue to read at home everyday and write a comment in your child’s diary. Any questions, please ask. Thank you for your continued support.
Books we WILL reading in RECEPTION:
