| Session | Class Ideas | Ideas for home |
| Phonics, Listening and Music | Our focus in these sessions will be a mix on listening and attending to environmental sounds, as well as beginning to recognise Phase 2 Twinkl phonics sounds. Some of the pupil’s engagement in these sessions will be shown through anticipation of what is going to happen, joining in or moving towards particular sounds or resources.
We will also be focusing on exploring musical instruments, how they work and what sounds they make.
| When at home or out and about, encourage good listening of things around – for example sounds of everyday things at home indoors or while out on walks.
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| Stories and Books | We will be focusing on sharing stories which use castles, Kings and Queens as a theme, such as:
Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and the Steve Anthony series; The Queens hat, The Queens handbag, The Queens Lift off an The Queens knickers and The Cook and the King.
We will also look at classic nursery rhymes such as Old King Cole, Sing a Song of Sixpence and The Grand Old Duke of York.
We will provide opportunities for communication around these stories and all activities will be linked to explore the books further.
| Share stories at home. They can be in book, audio or video form. CBeebies Bedtime Stories are available on the CBeebies channel, iPlayer and You Tube. This encourages a growth of vocabulary as well as having fun through sounds and rhyme.
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| Problem Solving and Exploration | We will be looking at 2D and 3D shapes, counting their faces, sides and corners. We will also be using 3D shapes to create and print castles and portraits to see what shapes they make on the paper. We will also be counting and exploring number through different songs about Kings and Queens as well as exploring simple games on the whiteboard and ipads.
| At home you could create different castles using any toys you have such as building or wooden blocks, duplo etc. you could also play simple games on your phone or tablet with your child as well as singing number songs using YouTube.
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| Understanding the World | The half term we will be focusing on exploring different materials and their properties. What materials would make a strong, castle walls. We will also be looking at the materials that Royal crowns and clothes are made of and why they might use these materials.
| At home you could build castles out of different materials, and explore the materials of everyday clothes and objects around the home and when out and about. |
| Creative | During our creative sessions we will be looking at creating our own royal portrait using mirrors to look at our own facial features and thinking about the colours of the clothes that they are wearing. We will also be creating our own royal shields using something the child has a particular interest in as the focal piece. Finally, we will be crating our own royal class. This will be followed by different Easter art activities
| You too could create some royal portraits, your own shield- this could be a combined shield of the people in your house. Finally you could create your own royal house flag to display in your home. |
| PE and Orientation/
Mobility and Movement
| Our focus for these sessions will be on exploring low level gymnastic and soft play equipment. This will also support pupils with the development of moving around independently and finding different wats to go under, around, over and through different obstacles. This will be linked to castles, Kings and Queens by doing movements such as walking along the draw bridge (along a bench) or climbing the tower (climbing the soft play equipment.
| You could explore different ways of moving at home as well as moving over and around different objects. You could visit your local park and use the climbing frame to practice moving around, over and through the obstacles. |
| Cooking | We have a session every week where we can focus on developing our independence skills with fine motor skills such as spreading butter onto toast as well as exploring different tastes and textures. Dietary requirements will be followed.
| Encourage your child to continue to build the range of foods and flavours they will tolerate in their diet. We will share any foods or recipes which have been successful in class. |
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