We will help children to connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives.

How can you support your child at home?

• Narrate events and actions: “I knew it must be cold outside because he was putting on his coat and hat.”
• Remind them of previous events: “Do you remember when we forgot to wear our raincoats last week? It poured so much we got drenched!”

We will continue to encourage children to express their feelings and consider the feelings of others.

How can you support your child at home?

• Undertake specific activities that encourage talk about feelings and their opinions.
• Encourage your child to express their feelings if they feel hurt or upset using descriptive vocabulary. Help and reassure them when they are distressed upset or confused.

We will teach children to confidently and safely use a range of large and small apparatus indoors and outside, alone and in a group.

How can you support your child at home?

• Take your child to a park and encourage them to use the area safely.
• Help them to pull themselves up on ropes, climbing walls and use monkey bars.

We will explore six different texts this half term to support our English lessons. These are: The Hungry Caterpillar, Mad about Minibeasts, Silly Suzy Goose, Pop Up Seasons, Rumble in the Jungle and Handa’s Surprise. We will learn the story, understand the vocabulary and retell parts or all of the story. Alongside this, we will retell other storybooks and rhymes.

How can you support your child at home?

• Re-read your child’s favourite books to build up their confidence in word reading, their fluency and their understanding and enjoyment.
• Look at a variety of books together. If you would like to borrow picture books from school please let us know.

We will write according to each child’s own writing journey. Some children will be learning to write 3 letter CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words while those who are ready will be writing simple sentences. We will focus on the transcription of long ladder family letters: l, t, u, y, I, and j.

How can you support your child at home?

• Write in front of your child so that they can see writing in action.
• Support your child to write at home. Encourage them to use their phoneme fingers to sound out words. They can then represent those sounds in a phonetically plausible way. 
   

We will increase confidence in subitising by:

• exploring symmetrical patterns, in which each side is a familiar pattern, linked to doubles

We will focus on cardinality, ordinality and counting to:

• consolidate their understanding of cardinality, working with larger numbers within 10.
• become more familiar with the counting pattern beyond 20.

We will look at composition to:

• explore the composition of odd and even numbers, looking at the ‘shape’ of these numbers
• begin to link even numbers to doubles
• begin to explore the composition of numbers within 10

We will use comparison to:

• compare numbers, reasoning about which is more, using both an understanding of ‘howmanyness’ of a number and its position on the number system.

How can you support your child at home?

• Count securely to 20 and begin to count beyond talking about the number pattern.
• Explore number bonds within 5 and then 10.

Most learning will be child led and incidental. Our directed teaching this half term will include themes around:

• understanding the key features of a life cycle – The Hungry Caterpillar
• respecting and caring for all living things – Mad about Minibeasts
• respecting and caring for all living things – Silly Suzy Goose
• seasons and weather – Pop Up Seasons
• knowing about different countries in the world – Rumble in the Jungle
• people, culture and communities –Handa’s surprise

How can you support your child at home?

• Teach children about places in the world that contrast with locations they know well.
• Explore the outside with them. Can they find any creatures? Observe closely and learn more about what they find.

We will continue to learn and sing entire songs. We will support children to return to and build on previous creative learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them.

How can you support your child at home?

• Provide them with a range of materials to construct with.
• Encourage them to think about and discuss what they want to make. Discuss problems and how they might be solved as they arise. 
• Teach different techniques for joining materials, such as how to use adhesive tape and different sorts of glue.