Class Name: Owls

This term our topic is:
What Happens When I Sleep?

We will follow themes about:

• Day/night 
• Animals – including nocturnal animals, hibernation and naming parts of their body 
• Habitats – including caring for the local environment/living things and making comparisons to different countries/places 
• Routines –including teeth brushing 
• Jobs/ occupations 
• Chinese New Year (10th Feb) 
• Valentine’s Day (14th Feb)   

Some vocabulary we will be learning and using:

• Day, night, time, light, dark, moon, phases of the moon (full)
• Hibernation/hibernate, nocturnal, owlet, claws, talons, beak, nest, swoop, prey, woods 
• Routine(s) 
• Job(s) 
• China, Chinese, Year, dragon, chop sticks 

Some books we may read are:

• We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury 
• Hello, Mr Moon by Lorna Gutierrez and Laura Watkins 
• My Best Book of Night-time Animals by Belinda Weber (non-fiction) 
• Don’t Wake the Bear, Hare! By Steve Smallman and Caroline Pedler 
• Can’t You Sleep Little Bear? By Martin Waddell 
• A Book of Sleep by Ll Sung Na 
• It was a Cold, Dark Night by Tim Hopgood 
• When You’re Fast Asleep by Peter Arrhenius 
• I Wish I was a Pilot by Stella Blackstone 
• Non-fiction books about different jobs 

In Maths, we will focus on numbers 3, 4 and 5. This will include counting, numeral recognition, subitising and composition. We will link shape and the properties of shape to corresponding numbers e.g., 3 and triangles.

In Phonics, we use the Twinkl scheme. For the majority of this year, we will be focusing on Level one which involves recognising rhythm and patterns of sound through learning about environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body percussion, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and finally blending and segmenting letters and sounds.

All children will continue to learn about our School values. These will be explored further during our SCARF PSED sessions. This half term our unit is 'Keeping Safe'.

We will visit the Library on Thursdays to ensure that we are developing our love of books through reading for pleasure.

We endeavour to get outside as much as possible and our outdoor learning will be complimented by our Friday welly walks.

Please keep looking at Class Dojo for any dates and information regarding what is happening in our class and in the whole school.

Rhyme of the week

We are continuing to sing nursery rhymes each week, and would encourage you to sing these at home with your child. We have a small display and table close to the carpet area, that shows our current rhyme. The following website has animations, words and the tracks for lots of great nursery rhymes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/schoolradio

Speech and Language

Alongside the singing of Nursery Rhymes and sharing different books, we would encourage you to talk to your child regularly about the things you are doing and what they have done at school. This will really support their development with speaking and listening and increase their vocabulary. If you need any ideas, please have a look at our speech and language display and ask if you need any support. We do also have leaflets and support information to help with potty training and moving on from using a bottle and dummy.

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British Values

This half term, we will be focusing on Team Work as part of our Brinsley Values. The children will be talking about what these words mean.

Class Dojo

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