| Strand and Profile | Profiles in Class | Ideas for Home |
| Communication and Literacy | Our Talk for Writing (TfW) text this half term will be Titch. In our literacy session we will be exploring props, resources and symbols to support telling the story while an adult reads to us. The adults will model signs and show symbols for key words.
After a few weeks of working on our new text, some pupils will start work on the imitation phase in a small group in the classroom.
We will continue to have a weekly library slot. Please send in your child’s book bag on a Tuesday so that they can swap their books each week.
We will continue to have a weekly communication session where we will work 1to1 on individual PLGs and SaLT outcomes as well as focus vocabulary from our TfW text.
| You could visit your local library to borrow some different books to read together.
Please let me know if you’d like me to send you a copy of your child’s most recent SaLT outcomes.
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| Mathematics and Problem Solving | In our weekly maths session we will be starting by singing number songs together and then we will be exploring ‘big’ and ‘small’. We will have big and small versions of toys and resources, such as big and small bubbles, blocks, balls, toy cars, stacking ring, jenga, big and small paper and pencils and big and small bowls and spoons with water play and messy play. The adults will use lots of language about size and show us relevant symbols as we explore.
In our cause and effect sessions we will be working on our cause and effect skills with iPads, touch screens, switch toys and cause and effect toys.
| You could explore some big and small items at home. |
| Personal Development | We will be working on our social skills through a weekly ball pool session and though play in the classroom and out in the playground. We will end our week with some massage and relaxation in the classroom, doing a Story Massage followed by Handy Pac. | You could have a go at some massage with your child at home. Search ‘Hafod Lon sensory massage’ on YouTube for some massage routines that are easy to follow along with. |
| Physical Development
| In PE we will be exploring circuits and obstacle courses, developing skills and working on crouching down and reaching up. Our PE lessons will either be in the hall or out on one of the school playgrounds.
We will have a weekly Fine Motor Skills session when we will start with dough disco and then continue to work on our fine motor skills with various different toys and activities.
| You could do some stacking and arranging with your child, using both hands and coordination to stack small blocks and large cardboard boxes or arrange them to make houses, rockets, castles etc. You could even save up different sized empty cereal boxes, yoghurt pots, tissue boxes etc. to practice stacking and arranging with. |
| Understanding the World | In our Understanding the World sessions we will be exploring plants, soil and seeds. We will be splitting into two groups. One group will go to The Patch (community smallholding on site) and help Michelle out. In the classroom we will have a go at growing our own plants and explore potted herbs and compost. The groups will alternate weekly, one week going to The Patch and the next staying in the classroom. | You could have a go at gardening with your child – perhaps growing cress on damp cotton wool or planting some flowers from your local garden centre. |
| Expression and Creativity | Each week in Art we will be making art based around the book, Titch, looking at size, plants and growth and decorating kites etc.
In our weekly music lesson we will be encouraging movement to music through the Tiny Seed sensory story which includes lots of music to move along to, including Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers and ‘Flowers’ by Sweet Female Attitude.
| You could go for a walk in a local park or woodland and collect twigs, leaves and flowers to make natural paintbrushes with -
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| Personalised Learning
| We will be working on our individual Personal Learning Goals throughout the day as well as having a weekly lesson to focus on working towards our PLGs. | Please let me know if you’d like me to send you a copy of your child’s current PLGs. |
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