TYNINGS EYFS & YEAR 1
Welcome to Hedgehog, Squirrel & Owl Classes
Hedgehogs teacher is Mrs Howells. Our teaching assistant team is Miss Andrews, Mrs Thomas and Miss Burchill.
Squirrels teachers are Mrs Perry and Mrs Britton. Our teaching assistant team is Mrs Millard, Mrs Barr, Miss Sims, Miss Burchill and Miss Reed.
Owls teachers are Mrs Leach and Mrs Glanville. Our teaching assistant team is Mrs Shearing, Mrs Thomas and Miss Andrews.
Hedgehogs, Squirrels and Owls are all mixed EYFS and Y1 classes.
P.E. days are Monday and Friday. Please wear P.E. uniform to school on these days.
We collect in ALL reading books on MONDAYS. Please ensure that you return your child's reading book to school each Monday. Any lost or damaged reading books that are not returned after a reminder will be charged for at £5 per book. A new one will be given each THURSDAY after our 3 reading practice sessions in school. Book bags should be in school every day.
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Important Information:
Term 4 - 2023-24
We have daily story time and read for pleasure with our classes. Here are a list of 50 recommended reads for EYFS and Year 1. We use many of these in our classrooms too.
EYFS are focusing on letter families in handwriting. We have four main types of letter as shown on the posters below. Practising writing our letters in families helps us to form them correctly, starting and finishing in the right place. Please see Term 3's information further down the page for the formation phrases to support letter formation.
Year 1 will be focusing on ascenders and descenders in handwriting. We use the phrases of "ground, grass and sky" letters to help us remember that some letters sit in the grass, some reach up high to the sky and some dig down under the ground. This helps us with our letter size and presentation. (Please note that we do not add the flick at the end of the letter "o"", "v" or "w".)
In Term 4 EYFS will be learning about finger spaces, capital letters and full stops. We will be writing simple sentences by saying them out loud and segmenting sounds in each word. At this stage it does not matter if words are spelled correctly, as long as the children are using the phonics sounds they know to spell them. For example, the word "name" is ok to spell as "naim" as the children know the digraph /ai/ from their phonics.
This term we will also be continuing Colourful Semantics and Drawing Club to develop our writing. We will be weaving Colourful Semantics and Drawing Club through our key texts this term.
Colourful Semantics focuses on sentence composition using different types of word to make a sentence. We will be adding blue "where" words to our sentences this term. A Colourful Semantics sentence example for this term might be:
"I feel happy with you."
We will be rehearsing and writing Colourful Semantics sentences about our key texts "Mixed" and "Here We Are" and about our school trip to Bristol Aerospace.
Drawing Club focuses on meaningful mark-making and developing creativity and joy in writing. We will use inspiring stories and animations and play with ideas and words during our Drawing Club sessions to develop independence and confidence in writing. This term in Drawing Club we will be using the key text "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury to link to our geography learning about mapping and journeys. We will also be using "The Little Red Hen" as our "Tale from the Story Cupboard" and we will be using the animation "Popeye" to finish our Drawing Club term!
In Power Maths this term, EYFS will be working on the units:
Number bonds to 10
This unit will link to the EYFS maths objectives of:
Having a deep understanding of number to 10, including the composition of each number.
Automatically recalling (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts.
Subtraction
This unit will link to the EYFS maths objectives of:
Having a deep understanding of number to 10, including the composition of each number.
Automatically recalling (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts.
Exploring patterns
This unit will link to the EYFS Exploring and Using Media and Materials objective of:
Safely using and exploring a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
In Power Maths this term, Year 1 will be working on the units:
Numbers to 50
This will link to the Year 1 maths objectives of:
Counting to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number
Counting, reading and writing numbers to 100 in numerals; counting in multiples of twos, fives and tens
Identifying and representing numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least
Recognising the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (tens, ones)
When given a number, identifying one more and one less
Introducing length and height
This will link to the Year 1 maths objectives of:
Comparing, describing and solving practical problems for:
lengths and heights [for example, long/short, longer/shorter, tall/short, double/half]
Measuring and beginning to record the following:
lengths and heights
Introducing mass and capacity
This will link to the Year 1 maths objectives of:
Comparing, describing and solving practical problems for:
mass/weight [for example, heavy/light, heavier than, lighter than]
capacity and volume [for example, full/empty, more than, less than, half, half full, quarter]
Measuring and beginning to record the following:
mass/weight
capacity and volume
Please see the Power Maths calculation policies below to see how you can support your child when they are adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.
https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/- Little Wandle Phonics support for parents
https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/books-of-the-month-2022/ - Books of the Month
https://whiteroseeducation.com/1-minute-maths - Link for downloading a fantastic 1 Minute Maths App. Great for maths fluency.
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Important Information:
Term 3 - 2023-24
Following the above Phonics meeting, as of mid-term 3, we will be changing ALL reading books on MONDAYS. Please ensure that you return your child's reading book to school each Monday. A new one will be given each THURSDAY after our 3 reading practice sessions in school. Book bags, books and reading records should be in school every day.
Please see attached Power Point for information on these changes to home reading.
As we progress with our fine motor skills and phonics knowledge, EYFS are now focusing increasingly on letter formation. Please see below for how to support your child with forming their letters correctly. In Term 3 we will be beginning to develop our caption writing in meaningful contexts such as writing about a picture from one of our key texts. Some examples of our captions this term may be:
"a duck in the bath"
"a red hat."
In Year 1 we will be having an increased focus on the correct spelling of the Year 1 Common Exception words. These are the words that children should be able to spell correctly by the end of Year 1. We would love your support with practising these at home.
This term we will also be continuing Colourful Semantics and Drawing Club to develop our writing. We will be weaving Colourful Semantics and Drawing Club through our key texts this term.
Colourful Semantics focuses on sentence composition using different types of word to make a sentence. We will be adding green words - NOUNS or "what" words to our sentences this term. A Colourful Semantics sentence example for this term might be:
"The penguin rowed to the South Pole."
We will be rehearsing and writing Colourful Semantics sentences about our topic texts "Lost and Found" and "One Day on our Blue Planet: In the Savannah".
Drawing Club focuses on meaningful mark-making and developing creativity and joy in writing. We will use inspiring stories and animations and play with ideas and words during our Drawing Club sessions to develop independence and confidence in writing. This term in Drawing Club we will be using the key text "Lost and Found" by Oliver Jeffers to link to our "Hot and Cold" topic. We will also be using "The Gingerbread Man" as our "Tale from the Story Cupboard" and we will be using the animation "Wacky Races" to finish our Drawing Club term!
In Power Maths this term, EYFS will be working on the units:
Numbers to 10
Recognising, counting, gaining a deep understanding of the composition of numbers 6,7,8,9,10.
"5 and a bit" - e.g. 7 is 5 and 2 more and representing this on tens frames.
Comparing numbers to 10
More and fewer.
Addition to 10
Using part whole models to combine two groups.
Measure
Length, height and weight.
In Power Maths this term, Year 1 will be working on the units:
Numbers to 20
Teen numbers.
Tens and ones.
Representing teen numbers on a tens frame to show "ten and a bit".
Addition and subtraction within 20
Counting on or counting back.
Number bonds.
Doubles and near doubles.
Finding the difference.
Word problems.
Numbers to 50
Counting.
Comparing.
Ordering.
Counting in 2s and 5s.
Solving word and picture problems.
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Term 2 - 2023-24
In both year groups we will be continuing to develop our fine motor skills to help strengthen our muscles for writing. We will do this through finger gym, funky fingers tinkering play activities and pencil control and letter formation.
It is essential that EYFS children can write their names. Please continue to help us with this at home.
Year 1 must also be forming all of their letter correctly. Year 1s have daily handwriting practice.
This term we will also be introducing Colourful Semantics and Drawing Club to develop our writing. We will be weaving Colourful Semantics and Drawing Club through our key texts this term. Our key texts are "Stanley's Stick" by John Hegley and "Lost in the Toy Museum" by David Lucas.
Colourful Semantics focuses on sentence composition using different types of word to make a sentence. We will be starting making "who" and "what doing" sentences, for example "All of the old toys are hiding." We will add different sentence components our writing using Colourful Semantics throughout the year.
Drawing Club focuses on meaningful mark-making and developing creativity and joy in writing. We will use inspiring stories and play with ideas and words during our Drawing Club sessions to develop independence and confidence in writing.
In Power Maths this term, EYFS will be working on the units:
Shape (3D and 2D shapes)
Change within 5 (One more and one less - using "first", "then" and "now" number stories)
Number bonds to 5
Spatial Awareness and positional language.
Year 1 will be working on the units:
Addition within 10 (using part whole models, number lines and tens frames)
Subtraction within 10 (using part whole models, fact families, number lines and tens frames)
2D and 3D shapes
Term 1 - 2023-24
In both year groups we will be developing our fine motor skills to help strengthen our muscles for writing. We will do this through dough disco with playdough, finger gym, funky fingers tinkering play activities and pencil control and letter formation.
In EYFS we will be developing our name writing skills, practising this daily.
In Year 1 we will be using our topic books - Zog, Real Superheroes and Supertato - as a stimulus to write. We will be writing lists, captions and sentences and working on using our capital letters, finger spaces and full stops to write independent sentences.
In Power Maths this term, EYFS will be working on the units:
Numbers to 5
Comparing groups within 5
Shape (3D and 2D shapes).
Year 1 will be working on the units:
Numbers to 10
Part-whole within 10
Addition within 10
Subtraction within 10.