Welcome back everyone! We hope that you all had a wonderful Easter holiday, and a well-deserved rest. We are looking forward to our new half-term and our exciting new topic!

This half-term, our new topic will be ‘Animals and Living Things.’ Throughout this topic, we will be learning all about the different types of animals in our world, such as pets, minibeasts and wild animals. We will also be looking at the life cycles of some animals, including frogs and butterflies (we will even have our own caterpillars that we will observe)! We are excited to welcome some other special animal visitors into our classroom too, such as tortoises! As well as this, we will be learning about many other living things on our planet, including flowers and trees. During this half-term we will also be going on our first educational school trip to Chatsworth Farmyard, where we will learn more about the life cycle of animals and animals and their offspring.  

In Literacy, we will be reading a range of fiction and non-fiction texts based around our topic. We will continue to develop our writing skills by writing short sentences using our phonetic knowledge. We will also teach lots of new vocabulary this half-term, based on our topic, to help with our writing and communication skills. In Phonics, we will be recapping all of the sounds that we have learnt so far, and using these to read and spell longer words and sentences.

In Maths, we will be exploring counting patterns and sharing with numbers beyond 10 and will continue to embed our number bonds. We will learn how to recognise, order and represent larger numbers using Numicon, ten frames and Multilink. We will continue to develop our knowledge of numerical patterns by embedding our odds, evens and doubles.  We will also continue to learn how to write addition/subtraction number sentences using various different strategies and resources.

Mrs Grindey, Miss Sutton and Miss Purslow

 

Key Information

PE day-Monday (Please send your child into school in their PE Kit for the day)

Book changing day-Wednesday

 

Books we will be reading this half-term...