Polar Bears
Polar Bears Autumn 2 learning
What a fantastic Autumn term 2! Our polar bears worked very hard in a long and eventful term, with concerts, performances and lots of excitement.
Mrs Curtis introduced us to 'Drawing Club' this term and she was a bit excited. We get to listen to new stories or watch clips and then draw our own versions of events, creating our own codes and stories. We've been practising our number and letter formation, even forming our own words and telling Mrs Curtis silly sentences to include.
In maths we've compared amounts, counted to 10, showed amounts in different ways and looked at triangles, circles, squares and rectangles. We searched our classroom for the shapes and made pictures using our shape resources.
Phonics is progressing beautifully and we've moved on to digraphs (two letters make one sound). We learnt; ff, ll, ss, j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, sh,th,ng, nk, words with 's' on the end and the 's' that sounds like 'z' (his, was, etc). We read our reading practice books three times a week in school and would love to celebrate these with lots of practice at home too.
In RE we looked at the story of creation and why the story is important to Christians. In art, we used different materials to draw with (crayons, chalk, felt tips,etc) which led up to drawing our self portraits. In PSED, we looked closely at relationships we have with our families and friends. We went back in time in our History lessons looking at photos and toys to explore the past and present. We loved using the online paint tool to practice clicking, dragging and using laptops.
Our Class
The Polar Bears Class is where the children in Reception develop a strong foundation to support later learning throughout the curriculum. Polar Bears love using the indoor and outdoor environment to extend their learning and rehearse ideas. The Polar Bears classroom is a continuously evolving space where children are encouraged to develop their language skills and gain a love of reading right from the start.
Top five things to do in the Polar Bears Class:
Independently explore new and different techniques and textures in the art, DT and play dough areas.
Create positive and lasting friendships with emotional support from adults.
Use daily, specified time for independent play to practice new concepts, language and skills that have been taught and modelled within whole class time.
Spending time in our new and improved outdoor environment extending our gross motor skills.
Having lots of fun and learning along the way!
Our Learning
We love learning and will be excited to share more information with you about our new learning and wider curriculum homework after the holiday.
Things to do each week to support your child learning at home:
Reading to your child every day will encourage a huge variety of fundamental skills which will underpin later learning. The children take a book for pleasure reading for pleasure home with them. This can be changed up to three times a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday).
Children should read their ‘Big Cat’ book to someone in their household three times a week. The children will bring a new book home each Friday after they have read it in a group three times at school.
Talking with children about their learning is an important part of creating a love of learning at home. Here are some great questions to start a conversation with a Polar Bear this term:
What sound did you learn in phonics today/this week? What word can you think of that has this sound? Shall we sound it out? Can you find a 's' (or other) in this room/book?
Shall we draw a picture? What can you find that we can draw? What shapes will we need to use?
Can you tell me the story of creation? Who believes this story? What book is it in?
How can we make the number 3 (or other)? Can you show me on your fingers? Shall we use these teddies (or other) to make it in different ways?
While looking at a book: can you tell me what happens before we look at the book? Why do you like/ not like this book? Why did ... do that? What would you do?
Useful Links
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For parents | Letters and Sounds (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk) untitled - Paint (online painting tool) |
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