Literacy

This term we continue our Seasons topic and will enjoy songs, rhymes stories and activities about summer.  We will link this to our learning about healthy eating and base our learning on two stories: Oliver's Vegetables and The Enormous Turnip. 

We will develop our communication skills by learning and using new vocabulary and learning to use visuals to support us.         

Maths                                                                                                   

Practising counting to 20 and learning to count backwards from 20.        

Through tasks and puzzles we will improve our fine motor skills, problem solving abilities, spatial awareness. We will practise stacking, sorting, one-to-one correspondence and patterns. 

We will practise our subitising using our fingers, dots, pictures and the rekenrek.

We will also be working on our individual maths targets.

 Personal, social and emotional development

To help us communicate and manage our feelings, we will continue to use the Zones of Regulation framework

 Physical development

We will be: exploring our outdoor environments: the playground, the astro and the forest area, joining in PE and music and movement activities to develop our motor skills and coordination.  We will be concentrating on developing our gross and fine motor skills, through pushing and pulling activities and learning to eat with utensils.

Science

Our science topic this term is “Hot and Cold”.  We will be learning what hot and cold mean and relating the meaning of the words to the weather, hot and cold places, animals that live in hot and cold places and the things we eat and the clothes we wear when it’s hot or cold.

Communication and language development

We will be: working on our speech and language targets and learning to use symbols, signs and words to communicate our needs.  We will develop our language through songs, rhymes, stories and play. 

We will continue to develop our phonics knowledge and use it to progress along our reading journeys.

Reminders