Welcome to FSGB

FSGB is taught by Miss Grindley and Miss Banks. Miss Banks teaches on a Thursday to cover Miss Grindley’s PPA/SLT.

Miss Tune is our TA and is in class every day.

Our theme for Spring Term is…

…Off We Go!

 

This term we will be exploring many different places in the UK and around the world and even beyond. We will start off our adventure by reading ‘Naughty Bus’. We love how mischievous Naughty Bus is and seeing what chaos he creates! We find out all about the important buildings in London and enjoy creating our own crazy bus journeys around our capital city. The children will then help to guide their learning by choosing where they want Naughty Bus to travel to. We can’t wait to find out their crazy ideas! Will we end up in space, in a different continent, in an ocean or even back in time visiting the past? We hope the bus fare isn’t too expensive!

 

The Foundation Stage curriculum has 7 areas of learning and here’s a little insight into what we’ll be doing for them this term.

Communication and language

Stories continue to be an important part of our days. We will continue to listen to our class stories which we vote for every day and discuss them as well as singing nursery rhymes at snack and chat. Every week we also enjoy learning about different words through quality texts.

 

Personal, Social and Emotional

This term we will be looking at personal hygiene and our health. Poor Naughty bus falls into a pond…but we find that he’s a very clean bus when he comes out. We look at how we keep clean and why it’s important. When we read ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’, we also look at how our oral hygiene and what we eat is very important. We don’t want to eat too many sugary pancakes and not take care of our teeth. The children will continue to develop their resilience in all areas of learning and to empathise with others, considering their feelings in different things that we do. We’ll also be completing our unit on ‘Appreciation’ with My Happy Mind learning all about what be thankful is.

 

Physical Development

This term we will complete the ‘Squiggle while you Wiggle’ programme that supports the children to strengthen muscles and learn movements needed to form letters correctly in a fun, lively way. We’ll be getting the equipment out for some gymnastics in PE and exploring travelling on them using high, low, under and over.

 

Literacy

We’re very excited to begin 3 phase of Little Wandle phonics and learning lots of new diagraphs. We’ll continue to sound and sweep these in words and start to read longer words and sentences. There’ll also be lots of new phase tricky words to learn too! See attachments for the phase 3 tricky words and phonemes. In writing, we’ll continue to stretch out our words hearing all our phonemes to be able to write our words. We’ll also be trying to write sentences. Thinking of ideas for sentences and repeating them is such an important skill at the start of the children’s writing journey and it’s sooo tricky! We have to come up with an idea, remember it and then keep repeating it whilst thinking of our spelling and how to form our letters! We’re such hard workers!

 

Mathematics

We will be looking at being able to identify amounts that are fewer than and more than other amounts as well as being able to confidently being able to partition numbers to 5 in lots of different ways quickly and confidently. We’ll be singing songs like ‘5 little speckled frogs’ and identifying where there are more of fewer frogs and how 5 has been partitioned. We might even throw Naughty Bus in again to have another wash!

 

Understanding the World

We’ll be looking closely at London and the famous buildings in our capital city as we take Naughty Bus on a tour there and we make our own bus routes and journeys. The children will then decide where they want Naughty Bus to go and we may be travelling with Naughty Bus to investigate other countries or continents…or even place further away! We’ll also continue to look at the changes of season and other changes we can see on our weekly welly walks.

 

Expressive Arts and Design

We’ll be creating our own master pieces by carefully using our drawing skills to draw observational drawings of London landmarks. We’ll also be creating sculptures of the landmarks in construction and junk modelling too. Look out for our future architects!  We’ll also be using water colours this term to create some masterpieces. We’ll be focussing on how to hold a paintbrush and using the water to mix with the paint to create different shades.

We will update our school Facebook page regularly with photos about what we’ve been up to.

 


How to Help

Please encourage your child to dress and undress independently at home,  including socks, tights, shoes and coats. Encourage little fingers to fasten up their coats, this is fantastic development for the strength needed for writing.

Share books and read to your child. Talk about the pictures, characters, events and how they feel about them.

Make the time to introduce new vocabulary when reading stories, visiting new places or experiencing new things. Remember that growing your child’s vocabulary is one of the greatest gifts you can give your child.

Make up stories about toys, objects and journeys and encourage them to write captions or speech bubbles to go with them.

Show your child how to form their letters correctly.

Encourage your child to spot letters, numbers and shapes in the environment.

Encourage your child to apply their blending skills to read words around them and also reread sentences and captions back in full with a readers voice..

Count objects and talk about their size

Play dice games and I spy

Spend time in nature and notice what is around them.


Fruit

During the afternoon each day we have a fruit or vegetable snack, this is a government initiative where children in the infants have a free piece of fruit or vegetable. We call this session “snack and chat” This time provides a lovely opportunity for the children to sit with their peers and reflect upon the day and enjoy a healthy snack.


Each day children require:

A small healthy snack for morning break only. This may be fruit, vegetables, wholemeal bread or toast, half a bagel,

A reusable drink bottle filled with water. Please name your child’s bottle.

Reading books and diaries.

A coat  (even when it’s not raining as we often go to the woods where it is colder).

A pair of wellies (To be left in school). Please label with your child’s name.

A spare set of clothes in case of an accident. (To be left in school).

PLEASE MAKE SURE ALL BELONGINGS ARE CLEARLY LABELLED WITH YOUR CHILD’S NAME.

 

 


Useful Links

Useful Websites /Apps to access with your child.

Reading

Being able to say the sounds is pretty confusing! Here are some short videos from Little Wandle to help you support your child with how to say their phonemes/sounds which will help them with their reading in Foundation Stage.

Phase 2 – Autumn 1

Phase 2 – Autumn 2

Phase 3 – Spring 1

The following link is a fool proof guide to helping your child with their phonics courtesy of the Alphablocks from CBeebies! https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk – This has some lovely games to help support our work on phonics. No need to subscribe click on free phonics play on the far right on the webpage.

https://www.ictgames.com – There are some lovely games on here to support both Literacy Development and Mathematics.

Teach Your Monster: Free Phonics, Reading and Mathematics Games This is a great  resource which can be loaded as an App which supports early reading. They have also added some games to support maths and healthy eating.

Writing

Knowing how to write letters correctly is a very difficult skill for children to master and supporting them can be difficult. Below are some links to videos that show you and your child how to form their letters (graphemes).

s. a. t letter formation

p. i. n letter formation

m. d. g. letter formation

o. c. k. letter formation

ck. e. u. letter formation

r. h. b. letter formation

f. l. j. letter formation

v. w. x

y. z. qu. letter formation

1-Minute Maths on the App Store (apple.com)

1-Minute Maths – Apps on Google Play

The Whiterose App is a great way to consolidate your child’s subitising, addition and subtraction skills. (The addition and subtraction problems are more appropriate for later in the year.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0 – Phase 2 Tricky Word song. We sometimes watch this whilst getting ready for lunch.

What-to-expect-in-the-EYFS-complete-FINAL-16.09-compressed.pdf (dev-foundation-years.pantheonsite.io)  This is a link to a document created for parents to outline what to expect in EYFS. It is quite long but there is lots of useful information to dip in and out of as you wish.

 

Safety & Wellbeing

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