Welcome to Foundation
The Team
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Miss Thickbroom Mrs Jenkins Miss Smith Helen
Class Teacher Class Teacher Class LSA Class LSA 0Key dates
PE is every Tuesday. Forest School is every Friday- Please send your child in with a spare pair of shoes! Monday 12th April- Back to school. Monday 12th April- Home learning set on google classroom. Monday 3rd May- Bank Holiday. W/C 10th May- Parent video introduction to Accelerated Reader. Monday 17th May- Home learning projects due in. W/C 10th May- Reading Parents Evening. Friday 21st May- Home learning winners shared virtually. Friday 28th May- End of half term. |
Resources |
Our Learning This Half Term
Welcome to Summer 1 Half Term! This half term our topic is "In the Garden!" We will be learning all about growing plants and vegetables, the life cycle of a flower and why plants are so important. Finally, we will be reading Jack and the Beanstalk and The Very Hungry Caterpillar and creating our own versions of these stories.
Making Relationships
This term we will be learning to: - Play co-operatively, taking turns with others. - Show sensitivity to others' needs and feelings. - Be confident and say when we do or do not need help. 
Communication, Language and Literacy
This half term we will be learning to: - Re-tell the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and anticipate key events. -Re-tell the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and anticipate key events. -Sequence the stories and innovate them to create our own stories. -Write simple sentences that the children can read back. 
Mathematics
This half term we will be learning to: - Compare mass and capacity. - Build numbers beyond 10. - Count patterns beyond 10. - Develop positional language through spatial reasoning. - Adding more - Take away 
Understanding the world and R.E
This half term we will be learning to: - Interpret the story of The Boy who Cried Wolf (An Aesop Fable) - Interpret the story The Crocodile and the Priest (A Sikh Story) - Interpret the story Bilal and the Beautiful Butterfly (A Muslim Story) 
Expressive art and design
This half term we will be learning to: - Sing songs and make music. - Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques to make flowers and minibeasts. 
PSHE - Relationships
This half term we will be learning to: - Identify some of the jobs the children do in their family. - Know how to make friends to stop us feeling lonely. - Find ways to solve problems and stay friends. - Understand the impact of unkind words. |
Suggested activities to support learning:
- Provide activities that involve turn-taking and sharing e.g. a family game. - Discuss feelings regularly. - Offer help with activities when asked but not before. 
Suggested activities to support learning:
- Read the stories and discuss key vocabulary throughout. - Practice reading and recognising all set 1 Read Write Inc phonemes and digraphs. - Read with your child every day and question events characters and setting. 
Suggested activities to support learning:
- Provide a selection of loose parts and estimate and organise into tens to see how many full tens and how many of the next ten. - Read 20 big trucks in the middle of the street by Mark Lee. - Create a simple shape arrangement and ask your child to match your arrangement exactly. - Create your own first, then and now stories with small world characters. E.g. first there were 5 dinosaurs, then I add 2 dinosaurs, now I have 7 dinosaurs. 
To support your child at home you could:
- Read these stories and discuss key vocabulary. - Discuss what we can learn from stories. - Discuss what religion means. 
To support your child at home you could: - Experiment what noises you can make with different materials. - Provide a selection of junk modelling to experiment building with. 
To support your child at home you could:
- Discuss different roles in the family home and what each person does. - Play a board game to encourage co-operative play and talk. - Discuss what being kind looks like. |
