Welcome to Foundation Stage 2!
Welcome to Foundation Stage 2! We are so happy you have joined our class and we have so many exciting things for us to learn and do. Our class is called Out of this World, which was inspired by the story Aliens love Underpants. Your teacher is Mrs Wood but we are very lucky to have lots of other adults support us in FS2. We have Miss Scherdel, Mrs Berry, Miss Holdsworth and Miss Halstead.
This term we are exploring our topic ‘Super you, Super me’. Spring Term 1: Communication and Language –We will be using the NELI programme and Word Aware to teach new language and support the children’s oracy skills weekly. Through these programmes, literacy and continuous provision, children will learn new vocabulary and how to implement this throughout the school day. We will focus on asking questions to find out more, describe events in details and to articulate their thoughts and ideas in well formed sentences.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development – We will continue to develop and build upon following rules and routines, to identify and moderate their own feelings, show resilience and perseverance in the face of a challenge and to think about the perspective and feelings of others. Children will know how to stay safe online and to understand how to limit their own screen time.
Physical development – In P.E we are focussing on ball skills 2. This topic will focus on the skills involved in rolling and tracking a ball, throwing and kicking a ball at a target and throwing and catching with a partner.
Literacy – We are starting with some favourite texts; Supertato and Superworm, moving onto various texts to explore people who help us with a specific focus on Police and Doctors. We will end the half term with the traditional tale- Little Red Riding Hood. We will have a special visit from our local PCSO and will take part in a filming session as part of our daily toothbrushing sessions, how exciting! In Phonics, we are learning the letter sounds: w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, dge and ve. We are working on blending and segmenting CVC, CCVC and CVCC words and developing our letter formation further. In writing, we are learning to add these words into simple sentences using the correct letter formation and punctuation.
Mathematics – We are exploring counting and ordering, representing numbers using five and tens frames, counting sets up to 10, comparing quantities and number bonds within 10.
Understanding the World –Through topical activities and continuous provision the children will develop the skills to talk about members of their immediate community, use books, stories and other information to find out about places, draw their own map of the local area and identify simple features on a map. E.g. church, road. To know that the seasons affect the temperature and identify what you need to wear for each season and why and talk about key famous people from the past and present – Joseph Locke.
Expressive Arts and Design – We will continue to teach music using the Charanga programme focussing on the topic ‘everyone’. We will learn the songs and actions for the rhymes: wind the bobbin up, rock a bye baby, twinkle, twinkle, if you’re happy and you know it, head, shoulders, knees and toes and five little monkeys. Through continuous provision the children will explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings. Explore how colour can be changed by adding white to create new tones and shades, experiment with pastels to draw and blend and produce lines of different thickness and tone.
These are just some of the experiences that will take place this half term. All of your child’s learning will be shared via our online learning journey Evidence Me, please check this regularly to receive frequent updates on your child’s learning!
This term we are exploring our topic ‘Super you, Super me’. Spring Term 1: Communication and Language –We will be using the NELI programme and Word Aware to teach new language and support the children’s oracy skills weekly. Through these programmes, literacy and continuous provision, children will learn new vocabulary and how to implement this throughout the school day. We will focus on asking questions to find out more, describe events in details and to articulate their thoughts and ideas in well formed sentences.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development – We will continue to develop and build upon following rules and routines, to identify and moderate their own feelings, show resilience and perseverance in the face of a challenge and to think about the perspective and feelings of others. Children will know how to stay safe online and to understand how to limit their own screen time.
Physical development – In P.E we are focussing on ball skills 2. This topic will focus on the skills involved in rolling and tracking a ball, throwing and kicking a ball at a target and throwing and catching with a partner.
Literacy – We are starting with some favourite texts; Supertato and Superworm, moving onto various texts to explore people who help us with a specific focus on Police and Doctors. We will end the half term with the traditional tale- Little Red Riding Hood. We will have a special visit from our local PCSO and will take part in a filming session as part of our daily toothbrushing sessions, how exciting! In Phonics, we are learning the letter sounds: w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, dge and ve. We are working on blending and segmenting CVC, CCVC and CVCC words and developing our letter formation further. In writing, we are learning to add these words into simple sentences using the correct letter formation and punctuation.
Mathematics – We are exploring counting and ordering, representing numbers using five and tens frames, counting sets up to 10, comparing quantities and number bonds within 10.
Understanding the World –Through topical activities and continuous provision the children will develop the skills to talk about members of their immediate community, use books, stories and other information to find out about places, draw their own map of the local area and identify simple features on a map. E.g. church, road. To know that the seasons affect the temperature and identify what you need to wear for each season and why and talk about key famous people from the past and present – Joseph Locke.
Expressive Arts and Design – We will continue to teach music using the Charanga programme focussing on the topic ‘everyone’. We will learn the songs and actions for the rhymes: wind the bobbin up, rock a bye baby, twinkle, twinkle, if you’re happy and you know it, head, shoulders, knees and toes and five little monkeys. Through continuous provision the children will explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings. Explore how colour can be changed by adding white to create new tones and shades, experiment with pastels to draw and blend and produce lines of different thickness and tone.
These are just some of the experiences that will take place this half term. All of your child’s learning will be shared via our online learning journey Evidence Me, please check this regularly to receive frequent updates on your child’s learning!
