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    • EYFS - Acorn

    Welcome to Acorn Class

    Early Years Foundation Stage 

    • Class Teachers: Mrs Green and Mrs Rowland

    Mrs Green works Monday and Tuesday and Mrs Rowland Wednesday to Friday.

    • LSA: Mrs Townson                                               

    We are a playful, fun, explorative class where each child is encouraged to learn through play and engaging activities. Our aim is to create an environment where children can thrive and continuously work towards developing and further enhancing their communication, literacy, maths and personal and social skills.  

    Our PE days vary, so please ensure PE kits are in school all week. We will aim to send them home every half-term to be washed.

    Below is our timetable for Summer 2.

    Our School rules

    • Be Respectful 
    • Be Safe 
    • Be Ready

    Daily checklist: 

    • Correct uniform
    • One book bag with their reading book and reading record
    • Weather appropriate coat 
    • Water bottle 
    • Wellington boots if rainy or snowy (so that children can access all the garden)

    Mrs Green and Mrs Rowland are available if you would like to discuss how your child is doing at school or to ask a classroom specific question (eg a lost jumper etc...) please feel free to email them both using the class email address: acorn@inspiresmat.co.uk

    Don't forget you can also use Tapestry as a way to communicate with the EYFS team and keep up to date with the fun and amazing things your children are getting up to and learning during their time in Acorn Class. If your query relates to something other than classroom matters, for example: dinners, payments, events, please continue to contact the office via telephone or the admin email address, thank you.

    Tapestry

    In Acorn class we use Tapestry to share the children's learning journey with you, it is a fantastic and easy way for you to see what your children are currently learning about and the activities they take part in during their time at school.  Remember to check Tapestry regularly and don't forget we also love to see what you have been up to at home. 

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    Summer 2 in Acorn Class

    This term our topic is 'Amazing Animals'. 

    We will be focusing lots of our work around these three books:

    We are really focusing on our sentence work, ensuring the children are forming their letters clearly and can read what they have written. 

    We will also have a big focus on Art this term and have lots of exciting creative projects planned. These will be animal-themed and inspired by artists that the children may be familiar with from books we have read in class and some new artists. We will also be exploring a contrasting community and culture (Akan culture from West Africa) through our book 'Anansi the spider'.

    Our role-play this term has a focus on 'animals' and we are creating a 'Zoo' themed provision with a Zoo café and Zoo vets.

    See our menu below for what's on offer at the café: 

    Within our continuous provision, we provide 4 challenges a week that support our more formal learning. We encourage the children to carry out these challenges and complete their 'Challenge Rainbow'. 

    Phonics and reading

    Our school uses the Little Wandle Phonics scheme.

    Over the year, we will work systematically through the scheme and regularly assess children's understanding and ability to recognise GPC's (Grapheme-phoneme correspondence), decodable words and tricky words. 

    These are the sounds that we will cover in Reception, and we will regularly send ideas about how you can practice phonics at home. 

    *Please note that this term (Summer 2), we will be teaching the children Phase 4 tricky words.*

    For parents | Letters and Sounds 
    This link will take you to the Little Wandle website that gives you lots of information about our phonics scheme. 

    The following list shows the words we would like the children to read and write by the end of Reception. 

     

    There are lots of great ways to practice reading and writing them, why not try…?

    • Have a word hunt around the house
    • Play word pairs or snap
    • Practice writing them in sand, glitter, shaving foam, etc
    • Look for words in the environment
    • Letters on milk bottle lids and putting them in order to spell
    • Writing them with chalk on the pavement
    • Making them with play dough

    Maths

    In our maths lessons we are continuously building upon our current skills and fostering new ones, which we then apply through fun and practical experiences. We will be teaching maths though NCETM and White Rose. This is a research-based scheme of learning, consistent with the aims and objectives of the Early Years Framework, supporting a mastery approach to teaching and learning in Early Years. We will be covering the following topics this half-term:

    Focus on ordinality: comparing numbers.  

    Seeing smaller numbers in big numbers. Introducing the Rekenrek.

    Strategies for counting number patterns.

    Compare groups of objects that are different.

    Investigate parts and wholes, doubles, odds and evens.

    Composition of numbers to 10.

    To help practice Maths skills at home please watch Numberblocks and log in to play Numbots.

     Numberblocks

    Numbots

     

     

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