Lake Class - Planning

What’s at the bottom of the garden?

We will be adventuring into the worlds of ‘Dinosaurs and Fossils’, ‘Beanstalks and Sunflowers’ and ‘Mini-Beasts’

We will be exploring ideas of similarities and differences in dinosaurs and animals we have today and exploring fossils and opening our ‘dinosaur museum’ alongside our regular ‘toy museum’.  We will be growing our own beanstalks and sunflowers to see which one will grow the fastest and tallest as well as comparing height, length and lots of opportunities for counting, subitising and developing our numbersense of numbers to ten and exploring numbers larger than 10.  

We will be looking at life cycles and patterns through the book ‘The Tiny Seed’ and using the traditional story ‘The Enormous Turnip’ to develop our story telling and writing skills.

We will explore the idea of a journey from school to the beautiful gardens of Heale House noticing different geographical features like the road, path, river and bridge and seasonal changes, these are all foundations for story telling and fuel for the imagination for play back in the classroom.

We will start cooking on Tuesday’s after half term, more information to follow and after half term we will continue our exploration of Mini-Beasts and the Garden with ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘What the ladybird Heard’, and an exciting summer trip to Langford Lakes.

Finally we will be preparing for a smooth transition to year one, more information to follow nearer the time.

Click below to see an overview of the activities we will be doing across the seven Areas of Learning that link with our theme;

Topic Web Summer

Things to try at home-

• Continue to practise reading and writing the letter sounds on your sound mat.
• Practise writing your name.
• Keep reading every day
• Keep adding entries to Tapestry to tell us about clubs, activities and any fun learning at home, we love to share them in class.

Can I remind parents to please name all items of clothing even shoes ! and water bottles it causes such an upset when they get lost and we try our best to ensure children look after their belongings but things do get misplaced.

If you have any worries or problems or even ‘wow’ moments at home do come in and speak to us we will be happy to resolve any issues.

Things to know and do;

We have PE on Wednesday morning and Gym on Thursday morning, can children come into school in their PE kit on those days.

Children only need to bring in a book bag, a named water bottle and a lunch box if needed.

Please name all items of clothing even shoes!!! and water bottles

If you have any worries or problems or even ‘wow’ moments at home do come in and speak to us we will be happy to resolve any issues.

For more information about Early Years please look at our curriculum page EYFS or click on the link https://www.woodfordvalley.wilts.sch.uk/EYFS/

Parent Helpers

We will welcome parents in to help this term to encourage speaking and listening and following instructions and friendships, we would like a volunteer to play board games, if you have a free afternoon please let us know.