Aire
Aire - Foundation
Early Years
Our topic this half term is ‘Growing and Minibeasts’. 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. The children know they need to make sure the plants are watered each day and once the rain has stopped, we will enjoy strengthening their gross motor skills to lift the watering cans!
This week we have also welcomed some caterpillars to our classroom. We have been carefully observing the caterpillars each day and hopefully if we take good care of them, they will eventually turn into beautiful butterflies! Exciting!
In English this half term we will be reading ‘The Tiny Seed’ by Eric Carle, ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ also by Eric Carle and ‘Snail Trail’ by Ruth Brown. The books will help us to write instruction 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. 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.
Please continue to read at home every day and write a comment in your child’s diary as well as learning high frequency words and tricky words. Any questions, please ask.
Thank you for your continued support.
Books we WILL reading in RECEPTION:
