Reception - Daisy Class
Welcome to Daisy class!
Daisy class is taught by Mrs Stead and Mrs Pearson. We are also supported on Mondays by Mrs Webster.
Our classroom is looking a little different this half term
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Our Curriculum
Personal, Social, Emotional Development
PSHE lessons will enable us to explore in more detail the issues that arise in our children's experiences. This year our whole school is exploring Restorative Practice as part of our behaviour management and children will be encouraged to explore feelings - their own and others' - so that they can develop emotional literacy and empathy. Children will be encouraged to understand their own bodies and growth patterns as well as being encouraged to develop independence in looking after themselves. We can explore the importance of relationships, rules and respect for ourselves and others.
Communication and Language
Wide ranging opportunities in both the indoor and outdoor environments will enable children to develop their communication and language skills: talking to others in one-to-one and group situations, asking questions, reciting rhymes and expanding vocabulary. At all times, children will be encouraged to speak in sentences rather than phrases. We are really enjoying using theTales Toolkits resources to develop our story telling.
Physical Development
We have daily fine motor sessions and activities in provision to help strengthen our muscles for writing. Writing and mark making is encouraged in all areas of the classroom so that the writing becomes meaningful and purposeful for children. We will be continuing to work on comfortable, strong pencil grips and pencil control and helping children to develop early writing skills.
Our PE days will be Wednesdays (Cricket) and Fridays (Physical Development at the Jubilee Field) but there are other opportunities to develop gross motor skills using action songs, the outdoor area and our wide selection of bikes, trikes and scooters.
Literacy
This half-term, we will complete Phase 2 of our Twinkl Synthetic Phonics Programme and move onto Phase 3. This will allow us to explore the lower and upper case graphemes (letter shapes) of all the remaining letters of the alphabet and some vowel digraphs. We will continue to learn the names of the letters and the sounds they most commonly make. Each new phoneme (sound) will be shared with you on Seesaw so you can hear correct pronunciation and see correct letter formation. It is really important to reinforce these and insist on them being correct from the very start, as unlearning 'wrong' things is much harder than learning new things. Please take the time to read your child's reading book with them several times. The books will be changed once children are reading words fluently without having to stop and segment and blend each word individually. Sight words are exactly that - words children need to learn to recognise at sight (i.e. no segmenting and blending!). You can read more about sight words here.
Mathematics
It is a common misconception that children who can count really high are great mathematicians and very advanced. In fact, counting is a very basic skill and has quite limited use in calculation so we will spend a long time on numbers to 5 but we will REALLY understand them. We have already spent several weeks subitising and recognising the composition of numbers 1, 2 and 3 so this half term we will be developing an in depth understanding of 4 and 5. We have not yet written numerals to represent numbers but instead explored them through practical activities.
Understanding the World
Over this half term there are many festivals that we will explore in terms of their historical origins and modern celebrations such as Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day and Christmas.
In RE, we will learn about the Nativity story by first considering who Jesus was and why he was important to Christians and then finding out more about his remarkable birth.
Expressive Art and Design
Using the children's own interests and ideas, we will explore different media and colour theories, learning about how we can mix our own colours and shades from a basic palette. Art and craft materials are always freely available for children to choose for themselves and to create independent pieces of artwork.