| Strand and Profile
| Profiles in Class | Ideas for Home |
| Communication and Literacy | We are reading this Titch this half term. We will be creating a story map and exploring size and growing.
We will use symbols to aid some caption writing about the story, adding a describing word to an object, e.g. big bike, high kite.
We will also be continuing our daily phonics sessions. This half term we will be focussing on using our phonics knowledge to find the initial sound, and identify rhyming words.
| Read the book at home. Talk about the story with your child.
You could have a go at doing some of the things Titch and his siblings do – fly a kite, ride a bike, grow a plant.
Take opportunities at home to point out items of different sizes. E.g. big shoes and little shoes.
Practise the Twinkl phonics sounds and actions at home. Read children’s books and poems that rhyme.
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| Mathematics and Problem Solving | We will be practising number bonds to 10 (& beyond). There will be lots of opportunities to practise addition in different settings. We will be talking about doubles and odd/even numbers.
We will be naming & exploring 3-D shapes (cubes, cuboids, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres), looking for them in the environment and looking at patterns.
| Demonstrate careful counting in different contexts. Use opportunities with toys & other objects to make 2 groups, to see how many there are in each group & ask how many there are altogether. Ask your child to say numbers & show numbers up to 10 on their fingers.
Look for 3-D shapes at home or when out & about e.g. packages in the supermarket…
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| Personal Development
| Our focus will be ‘Keeping Safe Inside’. We will be looking at dangers in the home, times that we need to ask permission, people who keep us safe, phoning 999. We will also be looking again at online safety. | Take the opportunity to talk to your child about dangers in your own home, which are relevant to them. Talk to them about who their safe people are. Talk about online safety and check online games your child uses for safety features. |
| Physical Development | We will be going swimming to The Reef each Friday to learn new swimming skills in the pool. We will also be working on dressing skills and talking about keeping safe in the community. | Practise with your child getting changed into swimming costumes and back into their school clothes (choose items which are easier for them to take off and put back on again on Fridays- named please!) |
| Understanding the World | Our topic for the half-term is Food.
In History, the children will look at how farming has evolved over time.
In Geography, we will look at food from different countries in the World.
In Science, we will identify different types of plants and visit ‘The Patch’ to see food growing. We will also grow our own plants from seed.
In Computing, we will be gathering & sorting information about food.
| Look for opportunities to point out tractors & other farming equipment when you are out & about.
Talk about where the fruit and vegetables you have at home come from. Name plants that you see growing in gardens.
You could have a go at growing some plants with your child so that they can see the process overtime.
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| Expression and Creativity | In Art we will be exploring colour. We will be making pictures using the primary colours – red, blue and yellow. We will then be learning how to mix them to make green, orange and purple. We will make “colour bugs” to show what colours are mixed to make a new colour.
In cooking we are learning to make healthy flapjacks using oats, oil and honey. We will be measuring and mixing the ingredients and adding a different extra crunch and flavour each week.
In music we are learning to work together to perform a song. We will be learning actions and singing along using our voices or a switch.
| If you have some paints at home give your child a chance to explore them. What happens when they mix the colours?
Talk about colours in the environment – at home and out and about. What colour is your coat? What colour are the trees?
Why don’t you have a go at baking at home? There are lots of easy flapjack recipes online
Try sprinkling dry oats in a tray for your child to explore and play in
Sing songs together at home, maybe listening to nursery rhymes e.g. head, shoulders, knees and toes. Can you join in the actions together?
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| Personalised Learning | We will continue to help the children to make their own personal next steps in getting dressed, toileting, eating etc.
| If your child has made any new steps at home over the holidays, please let us know in the diary or on EfL so that these can continue at school- thanks. |
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