Religious Education

We will begin the half term with our topic ‘Friends’. The children will be talking about what a friend is and how they can be a friend to Jesus too. They will learn that Jesus had friends and is our friend in Heaven too. We will also think about how we can be a friend to Jesus too.

We will be learning about ‘Judaism’. The children will learn about the customs, stories and celebrations connected to the faith and do activities to support this. 

We will end the term with our topic ‘Our World’. The children will be thinking about our wonderful world that God has given us. We will be learning about how we can look after and take care of the world around us. We will be thinking about how we share the world with our family and friends.

Commination, Language and Literacy

We will be using the book ‘I Love Animals’ and our trip to Bocketts Farm as the starting point for all our learning this half term. We will be having a large focus on the characters and the settings of the stories we read and will expecting the children to ask and answer who, what and where questions relating to the books we shared and within their play.

By this time of year, we expect all the children to know that print in books has meaning and that it can be used for different purposes. They will know that English is read from left to right, top to bottom. The will understand different parts of the book like the cover, pages and know that we read books in a sequence.

 It is important that children can talk about what they have seen and heard I books. This is a way to develop their understanding. If you can ask them questions about what they have heard when you have shared a book with them this will really help support their learning at school.

Eg. Who is the character in the story?

Where is the story set?

What happened at the beginning of the story?

What happened at the end of the story?

What do you think may happen next?

How do you think this character is feeling? How do you know?

At Home:

Share a story with you child every day. The evidence to show that children who are read to daily achieve so much more in school and have better jobs than those children who are never read to or only read to 2 / 3 times a week. So please read with your child daily.

Ask them questions about books.

Phonics

We will be continuing our phonics’ journey this term by hearing and saying the sounds in words. Up until know the children have focused on the initial sounds of words. This will continue but we will also be getting them to hear and say the final sound in each word. The sounds the children will be expected to hear and say are ch, x,sh,th,ng, and nk.  We will also be oral blending sounds to say simple words like th-u-d  thud,  th-i-ng thing, r-u-sh rush, sh-u-t,shut,  s-o-ng,song, s-i-ng sing, p-e-ck peck, r-o-ck rock, b-a-ck back, f-i-x fix

Maths

So, we have now learnt all number 1-5 and have developed an understanding of what 5 is. We will be consolidating all the children’s knowledge. They will learn to recognise a set of objects to 5 without counting them, this is called subitising. The will learn what is 1 more and 1 less with all number to 5. Eg. 1 more than 3 is 4. 1 less than 3 is 2. The children will continue learning about comparing quantities and how to compare two groups of objects and say which has more and which has less. We will also be learning about shapes naming both 2D and 3D shapes and talking the number of sides, corners, using the mathematical vocabulary round, flat, straight, corners.

At home: Ask your child to find 5 toys or to show you a number 5 in the environment when out and about.