Last half term, the children were learning and exploring through our new topic Fantastic Fairy Tales. Each week we focused on a different fairy tale story which has inspired the activities for the learning areas and adult focus activities in our classrooms. Recently we have looked at the stories of Jack and the beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Gingerbread Man. We have particularly enjoyed the baking and eating this half term! Other stories we have enjoyed are The Three Little Pigs and Each Peach Pear Plum. We have been very creative this half term building dens and using various materials to design homes.
Before the holidays, we revisited our on-going topic about People around the World to find out about China and Chinese New Year. The children made a Class Holiday Brochure about China using the information they found out. They also took part in various Chinese craft activities and tried tasting some delicious Chinese Food.
Our topic for this half term is ‘Our Wonderful world’. We will start with the story of ‘Martha maps it out’ this story is about making sense of the world around her. Beginning in outer space, each map in the book zooms in closer and closer to Martha’s own inner world. There’s a map of planet Earth, a map of the city, tower block and bedroom where Martha lives and even a map of Martha herself (with all the thoughts and dreams that make her unique)! We will use this story to explore a little bit about planets and find out about space. We will also be learning about our world through exploring different countries. We will look at Africa, Australia and even Great Britain and will use these countries to explore differences and similarities between our own country and countries around the world. Towards the end of half term we will be learning the story of Easter and discuss how and when we celebrate this special time of year.
During Spring term our P.E sessions will involve being in the hall and outside as the weather warms. We will need appropriate P.E kits including trainers during this half-term. PE is Thursday. Just a reminder to make sure all your children’s clothes are labelled, particularly jumpers and cardigans, as you can imagine we have a lot of green jumpers.
Children also need a named water bottle that they can bring every day.
We ask for any children wishing to have toast and milk for the week to provide the money in a named envelope on a Monday morning.
Toast- £1 week.
Milk- free for under 5’s/ £1.25 a week for over 5’s.
Keep an eye out for our weekly ‘Talk Talk’ newsletter which will inform you about weekly topics and any other notices for that week. These will be available to see on class dojo on a Friday.
Finally, we would like to encourage reading at home. Last term the children were introduced to our Reading Ladder scheme where the children are rewarded for reading 5 or more times a week at home. We encourage you to read with your child as often as possible. As always, parental support at home is invaluable. Sharing stories with your child is great for building on their vocabulary.
Miss Harper, Mrs Francis, Mrs McDermott and Mrs Shingleton.