Dear Parents/Carers
Welcome back after the Easter holidays and we hope you have had an enjoyable break spending time with your families and friends. We have a busy and fun Summer term ahead of us and are really looking forward to new, exciting and challenging activities together!
During this term we will focus on the themes of ‘How are living things suited to their habitats?’ and ‘How has technology changed over time?’
‘English’ and ‘Communication Language and Literacy’ opportunities will enable children to listen to and follow instructions to complete different tasks and follow routines. They will have daily opportunities to listen to and share class stories and poems. Speaking and listening skills will be developed through asking and answering questions. Reading will be developed through phonics activities and learning key words and spellings. Writing opportunities will focus on grammar and punctuation of sentences and will link to topic areas. Through non-fiction texts we will focus on links with other areas of the curriculum in Science, History and Geography.
In ‘Mathematics’, children will be learning how to develop their own ideas and solve problems through the areas of investigating numbers and calculations, geometry (exploring and describing shapes and describing position), and measures (length, mass and capacity). They will be learning how to ‘convince’ each other what they know in maths. New vocabulary will be learnt and skills will be developed using ‘hands on’ resources, drawings, pictures and photographs. Children will be recording maths pictorially and in written form. They will learn to select the resources they need and build independence through handling objects when solving problems and demonstrating how they can record their knowledge to share with other children and adults. In EYFS, children will also learn through stories and rhymes as well as role play and ‘real life’ problem solving activities.