Welcome to Shells
| Summer Term 2 2022 | Topic: Carnival of Animals | ||||
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| Shells’ topic this half term will be Carnival of Animals. Each week we will explore a new animal related to our topic. During the week we will engage in a number of activities that are topic related. Your child will be encouraged and supported to explore and engage in each of these activities. The animals we will be learning about, and some activities that will be offered each week are as follows | |||||
| Dates | Animal of the week | English | Maths (repeated daily) | Phonics and mark making (repeated daily) | Topic (one new activity introduced each day) |
| 6th June | Red, White and Blue week to celebrate Jubilee | Reading ‘Dog’s Day’ and predicting the ending | Sorting red white and blue items | n | Junk modelling of a palace |
| 13th June | Dogs | Making barking sounds and recording our voices | Counting dogs legs | s | Making clay / playdough dogs |
| 20th June | Spiders | Retelling the story of Incy Wincy Spider | Number lines using spider legs | a | How do spiders make you feel? |
| 27th June | Birds | Looking at non fiction books of birds | Measuring birds’ wings | T | Bird spotting around the school and Patch |
| 4th July | Fish | Sequencing pictures from The Rainbow Fish | Repeated patterns | p | Floating and sinking, wet and dry |
| 11th July | Snakes | Making hissing sounds, recording our voices | Using comparative language ‘big’ ‘bigger’ | i | Would you like a snake for a pet? What pets have you got? |
| 18th July | Animals with shells | Sharing a Shell book read over the week | Sorting animals with shells into groups | n | Exploring different shells from the beach |
| We will be enjoying looking at reading books and sending home a reading book and a reading record; please write in the reading record to let us know when your child reads, and have a look to see what they have been reading in school. | Shells class will be exploring the movement of our bodies in soft play during our PE sessions in the hall every Wednesday afternoon. There is no need for PE kit for this; we remove only our shoes and socks. Please practice taking shoes and socks on and off with your child at home to develop their independence, thank you! | We will be visiting the ball pool every Tuesday afternoon, and exploring using our senses in the sensory room every Thursday afternoon. We will be using the Enrichment Room in the Field’s Centre every Tuesday morning. | Please send in named wellies and a named coat and sunhat so that we can continue to visit The Patch every Friday morning. | We will also be exploring our wooded area during Muddy Mondays this half term which will benefit our children in many ways. | |
| Jen and the Shells team – Issy, Jen & Suz |