Willow Class (EYFS)

Welcome to Willow Class

Staff

Class Teacher: Mrs Challoner

PPA Cover Teacher: Mrs Chapman

Teaching Assistants: Miss Powling, Miss Richmond and Mrs Underwood

Term 4 Key Information

We have Forest School on Thursday 6th March, 20th March and 1st April.
Parent Evenings are the 5th and 6th of March - please book in a slot on Arbor
World Book Day Dress-Up - Friday 7th March
Book Fair - Monday 3rd - Thursday 6th after school until 4pm in The Olive Branch

Term 4 Curriculum

This term, we will focus our learning on pirates! Our learning will be linked to our Pathways book The Pirates Are Coming! We will look at maps and make some of our own. In Maths we will be continuing our focus on numbers to 5, comparing these and talking about smaller numbers that make up bigger numbers (composition of number). For example, 5 is made up of 4 and 1 more. We will use the language ‘more’, ‘less’ and ‘fewer’ to compare these numbers and use maths resources to represent them. In Phonics we will be working through Basics 3 graphemes and in English we will be practicing our writing and spelling skills using the sounds we know. In RE we will be learning about Easter and why Christians put a cross in and Easter garden.

Key Texts

Home Learning

Please try to read every day and write in the reading record diary. Your child has the 'Tricky Words' stuck into their orange reading diary, please practise these each day when you read. At the end of each week in their red phonics book we will send home the set of sounds your child has learnt that week in our Phonic lessons . Ask your child to explain what they have been learning and show you the 'cued articulation' action for each sound, as they progress they will be able to segment and blend the sounds and words they have been learning.

Tricky Words

Tricky Words Basics 2

Tricky words Basics 3

Websites

Listed below are some useful websites that you may wish to look at with your child. Please do not feel the need to complete activities on them, they are purely listed as suggested ideas you may wish explore with your child.

Oxford Owl for Home https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/

You need to register for an account, but it is free to join. This site has lots of free e-books, activity sheets and maths games.

Literacy Trust https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/

This site is free to access and contains videos, links to stories online and activity sheets.

Khan Academy www.khanacademy.org

You need to register for a free account and then create an account for your child. This site is American, but if you choose courses/ early math at the top there are some interactive Maths activities that are appropriate.

ICT Games https://www.ictgames.com/

This site has free Maths and English Games. There is no need to register and you can adapt the games to suit your child’s knowledge.

Classroom Secrets https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/

You can create a free account for this site and it contains Maths activities. (Just select EYFS tab at the top).

Hammond Education https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5f9v0bDywz0UKkJW3Ik1EQ

This YouTube site has ideas of Phonics games you could play with your child.

Mr Thorne's Phonics: Geraldine the Giraffe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sW4j8p7k9D_qRRMUsGqyw

There are lots of videos on here about different sounds the children have learnt in Phonics. The children love Geraldine!

Mystery Science www.mysteryscience.com

You need to register for a free account. This is another American site, but the Mystery Science units for Grade K have some nice videos and activities. The ‘Plant and Animal Secrets’ unit may be of particular interest, as the children have been learning about plants and growth.

DK Find out https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/