| Strand and Profile | Profiles in Class | Ideas for Home |
| Communication and Literacy | Our Talk4Writing text this half term is Dear Zoo. We will be doing various activities themed around the animals from the book across the week. In our stories session in the sensory room, we will be doing a sensory story based on Dear Zoo with a focus on the animals and the emotions they’re linked to in the book.
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.
| You could share books and stories about animals with your child. You could visit your local library to borrow some different books to read together.
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| Mathematics and Problem Solving | 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.
In our weekly maths session we will be focusing on different mathematical schemas, size and the concept of ‘too big’.
| You could sing animal number songs with your child, such as 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed or 5 Little Speckled Frogs. |
| Personal Development | We will be working on our social skills through a weekly ball pool session and a weekly play session in the classroom. | You could work on building your child’s independence with care routines such as brushing teeth or washing their hands and face.
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| Physical Development
| In PE we are going to be dancing to animal sounds and songs and practising moving around the hall like animals.
In our fine motor session we will be doing some animal themed dough disco and other fine motor activities.
| You could do some animal themed inset puzzles or have a dance to some animal songs!
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| Understanding the World | In our exploration sessions we will be exploring plastic toy animals in different textures, for example cornflour gloop, chia seeds, ice.
We are also planning a trip to the zoo later this half term!
| If you have any plastic or soft toy animals, you could explore them with your child. Perhaps you could explore plastic toy ducks and frogs in the bath or plastic farm animals in edible mud (cocoa powder and cornflour gloop, crushed bourbon biscuits or even mushy Weetabix!)
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| Expression and Creativity | Each week in art we will be doing art work based on different animals from Dear Zoo. We will be using different materials and techniques including collage and painting.
In our weekly music lesson in the sensory room, we will be doing a unit of work called ‘chant to the animals’ through which we will encounter various rap songs about animals.
| As well as singing number songs about animals, you could sing some nursery rhymes that feature animals.
Incy Wincy Spider
Old MacDonald
Baa Baa Black Sheep
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive
Horsey Horsey
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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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