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Welcome to the Spring Term in Foundation One
It is great to see the children back in school, they are all eager and excited to learn, which is lovely to see!
A warm welcome to our new children who have started this week, the children have settled into school really well and are busy learning all the routines of our class. They are beginning to develop their own interests as well as making new friends. Thank you for all your support in settling the children into Fullerton. If you have any questions please see one of the foundation team, we are always here to help and support you.
In phonics we are following the Read Write Inc nursery scheme to help your child to develop their language through story times, role play and building sentences. We will read lots of stories for the children to further develop their love of reading. During the Spring term we have planned lots of activities to develop our listening and attention skills as well as learning new songs and rhymes. Children will play phonics games such as I spy, cross the river and silly soup to hear and say the initial sounds in words. We will be playing lots of Fred games to help us with our oral blending, this will prepare your child for when we learn new letter sounds and for their reading and writing.
In literacy we will be listening to and retelling lots of new stories using actions and story maps to help us. We will be learning to repeat words and phrases from the stories we are learning, as well as talking about the key events in the correct order. The children will be looking at the pictures to talk about the characters from the story and we will be using different voices for each character.
Here are the talk through stories we will be learning this term:
Goldilocks and the three bears
The three little pigs
Giganotosaurus
People who help us
Spring is here/ One springy day
Farmer duck
Easter focus
Rhyme of the week
Each week we will learn a new nursery rhyme and actions, we will send our nursery rhyme sheet home every Friday for you to practice with your child.
Some of our Nursery Rhymes for this term are:
The Wheels on the bus
Five speckled frogs
1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive
The Grand old Duke of York
Old Macdonald had a farm
Head, shoulders, knees and toes
Early reading is key to all we do and incredibly important across the whole of our EYFS curriculum, your support is vital in helping your child develop the confidence and love of reading to reach their full potential. Please read as often to your child as possible, sharing a book at bedtime every night is a good way of developing a love of reading. Sharing a story with your child everyday can have a significant impact on their learning and development. Please make sure your child brings their book bag to school every day and your child's reading book will be changed in our class library every Friday. Thank you for your support.
In maths we are developing our counting skills, subitising patterns as well as recognising numbers. When you are out and about with your child, see what numbers you can find in the environment. You might see different numbers on house doors, number plates or buses. This will give your child lots of opportunity to see what the numbers look like. Any practice will really support your child’s development.
Developing physical skills is a key area in our early years curriculum, we plan lots of physical activities for the children to develop their fine and gross motor skills in the indoor and outdoor provision. The children will join in with Dough disco, squiggle sessions, parachute games as well as lots of other physical activities in their learning environment. As these activities will be available throughout the week we will not have a set PE day or session, therefore your child will not need a PE kit.
We are looking forward to watch the children grow and develop throughout the year as well as building some special memories together.
Please contact one of the foundation one team if you have any questions.
Thank you for your continued support
Mrs Stabler & The Foundation One Team
