Polar Bears
Polar Bears Autumn 1 learning
Gosh, we've had a busy first term together as the 2024-2025 Polar Bear cohort!
We've looked at numbers 1-4 in maths, how to show it in different ways and how to 'subitise' (know a quantity without having to count the objects) and we've sung lots of number rhymes together.
We're doing so well with our phonics lessons and Mrs Curtis is super excited with our letter practice that we've done at home. This term we learnt; s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r,h b, f, and l. We know the tricky words 'is', 'I' and 'the' and we're working hard on blending words.
RE lessons included an introduction to different religions, their cultures, communities and practices. We looked closely as our world changed into Autumn and enjoyed sharing our observations. In DT, we orally planned a model and worked hard at choosing the right resources for the job. In music, we explored the different sounds we can make as well as all the sounds (natural and technological) around us. In PSED, we explored our feelings, how our bodies change with the different emotions and how we can help ourselves and others when experiencing difficult ones. We loved our first taste of PE and really honed those fundamental skills.
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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?
What sounds can you make with your body? Can we turn anything in this room into an instrument? Can we make a beat together?
Can you tell me about different emotions? What would your face do if you were sad, excited, scared, tired...?
Who is in our family? Who's my daddy/mummy/sister/brother? Who are your cousins?
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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