As we welcome all the new children into Apple Class we start the new year by getting to know each other. We will be using the All About Me booklets filled in at home as a starting point to find out about each individual and their family. As part of our topic we will be celebrating how far all the children have already come in their lives and looking at how much they have changed and grown since they were babies. We will be finding out about our bodies and how we experience the world, exploring how our senses work and our different emotions. We will also be learning about how to be kind – our key school value.
Our topic will provide us with lots of opportunities to be creative and imaginative through fun art and craft activities and through our role play areas.
We are looking forward to this fun packed term.
In Apple class we have daily phonics sessions focusing on learning to read and write letter sounds. We follow the Twinkl Phonics program of lessons. The program is supported by the Rhino Readers books that children will bring home to practise their reading skills at home.
The Phonics Play website has a variety of free games that you can play with your child to support blending letter sounds to read words.
During our Maths sessions we focus on embedding number knowledge up to 10. We really enjoy watching episodes of Numberblocks which is a show that teaches counting and mathematical concepts through songs and the number characters having fun adventures.
Numberblocks is available to watch on the BBC iPlayer if you would like to watch episodes together with your child.
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.
