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Early Years Newsletter
January 2007
Dear Parents
I hope you all enjoyed the Christmas break and extra
quality time spent with your children. I would like this opportunity of
welcoming everyone back to school including three new children; Emily
Dunning, Oliver Dawson and Max Worth, who will be joining Class One.
PE
Class One have PE on a Monday morning and Friday afternoon. Can children
please bring their PE kits into school so that they can change ready for
their lesson. We will be continuing to practise and encourage children
to begin to undress and dress into their PE kits by themselves so it
would be very helpful if children are encouraged to dress themselves at
home.
If you have any concerns or issues concerning your
child please do not hesitate to raise these with me. I shall be
available to speak to, on the playground at 8.50 or you can arrange a
mutually convenient appointment after school.
Curriculum Overview
The curriculum has been designed and planned to cover
all six areas of the Foundation Stage Curriculum and Early Learning
Goals. This term our topic is based on the theme of food with a
different focus each week.
| Week |
Focus |
| 1 |
Cereals |
| 2 |
Bread |
| 3 |
Fruit |
| 4 |
Vegetables |
| 5 |
Fish/Meat/ Poultry |
| 6 |
Food from around the World |
| Personal, Social and
Emotional Development |
Communication, Language
and Literacy |
| Getting On and
Falling Out: Through circle games, stories and activities
children will be introduced to the issues of cooperating with
other children and working in a group. Children will have the
opportunity to develop and practise the social skills of sharing
and taking turns, listening to each other and understanding some
of the ways in which someone can be a friend. |
Children will
develop their language and literacy skills through structured
and unstructured discussions linked to books, topic, routines
and events. They will listen and act out stories involving food
such as Jack and the Beanstalk and The Gingerbread Man as well
as listening to texts on the tape recorder. Children will
develop their emergent writing skills through writing shopping
lists, practise forming letters and patterns using pens,
pencils, chalks, paint, sand and dough. Reception children will
continue to develop their reading and writing skills through the
‘Sounds’ Write’ program. |
| Mathematical Development |
Knowledge and
Understanding of the World |
| Through number
songs and rhymes children will begin to recognise and recite the
numerals beyond 10. They will begin to compare and order numbers
and count reliably up to 12 objects. Children will use the
language of adding and relate addition to combining two groups
of objects as well as separate (partition) a given number of
objects into 2 groups. They will use shapes in models and
pictures, naming and matching solid and flat shapes. Children
will begin to relate subtraction as taking away and will use
coins in play contexts to buy and give change. |
Children will
extend and develop their observational and investigative skills
through observing, sorting, making and comparing a wide range of
foods. They will weigh and measure ingredients to bake fairy
cakes and observe changes such as butter melting and cake
mixture cooking changing from liquid to solid form. Children
will carry out surveys and discuss their favourite food and use
graphing software to record their results. Children will be able
to explore food from other countries and begin to understand and
involve themselves in planting seeds to grow their own cress and
beans.
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| Physical Development |
Creative |
| Gymnastics:
Children will have the opportunity to develop an awareness and
understanding of their body movements through activities
designed to promote ‘Stretching and Curling.’ They will explore
different ways of stretching their bodies, using their hands,
and feet and begin to take weight on different body parts ton
balance in different positions-emphasising body shape- high,
low, over, under, stretching and curling. |
Children will be
involved with activities involving different media such as
paints, crayons, collage, malleable materials and use their
imagination through role play based on stories and games based
around the theme of food. They will design posters and labels
for the cafe, make their own saltdough play food, print patterns
using fruit and vegetables as well as role play scenes in the
class shop. In music they will sing songs and nursery rhymes
associated with food as well as playing traditional ring games
including Kim’s games, I’m a Little Teapot, Go to Market. |
Mrs C White
Early Years Specialist Teacher
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