Spring Term Topic Reception Kent SOUTHFIELD PRIMARY Stay & Play Every other Friday morning Stay for Phonics Tuesday morning Books changes Every Tuesday – please ensure reading records are in school everyday and that they are signed. CHILDREN Read, little and often everyday Talk about numbers and spot shapes everywhere you go. Practice phonics Write your name? Take notice of the changes in the environment. Do the trees look the same? What is the weather like? Spring Term Topic Reception Kent Why can’t I have chocolate for breakfast? HOW YOU CAN HELP Parents Encourage reading in all shapes and forms, comics, shop signs and bedtime stories Count everything you can, forward, backward and start from unexpected numbers Encourage thinking skills, allow children to find their own way of solving a problem. Encourage curiosity, ask questions yourself and your child will want to find the answer! Encourage mark making in all varieties, pencil chalk, paint… Play games with HF words and CVC words to build confidence. Learning Websites www.coolmaths4kids.com www.phonicsplay.co.uk www.mathplayground.com/games www.primarygames.com Teacher Mrs S Kent Student teacher Miss R Knight T.A Mrs E Parkes Miss C Parnaby

Expressive Arts and Design Communication and Language Maths Use mathematical language like ‘more than’, ‘less than’ to explore the concept of adding and subtracting. Investigate and practice weighing and estimating skills using breakfast objects. Use breakfast items to compare amounts and totals. Use our breakfast morning to formulate data to discuss. Which breakfast was the most popular? Knowledge of the World Use magnifiers to look closely at ‘food items’. Use vocabulary to compare similarities and differences of the textures of objects Explore the use of water in food making. Understand and be able to explain what we need to keep healthy. Expressive Arts and Design Use food items to make prints. • Investigate colour mixing using magical colours. • Use modelling material to create your own food. • Make chocolate paintings using melted chocolate on clear plastic sheeting. Communication and Language Investigate foods by smelling, touching and tasting. Use words to describe shape, size, texture, smell, taste and colour of different food. Take photographs of our breakfast morning, to sequence and discuss. Generate questions to explore as a point of interest. Discuss Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Talk about breakfast. What do people have for breakfast? What do people eat for breakfast in other countries? Talk about why we need food. Sort them into categories. What makes us healthy? Physical Development Consistently form letters correctly. Uses a pencil and holds it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed. Through dance and games, experiment with different ways of moving, negotiating space successfully PSED Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others. English – Reading Become immersed in books, talking about the story and making predictions. Listen to parts of Charlie and the chocolate factory. In guided reading, can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together and knows which letters represent some of them. Begin to know HF words by sight. English – Writing Write captions and sentences to support pictures from our breakfast morning Use our phonic knowledge to create lists of food. Create their own food land with an adult and write or re-tell somebody else about it. Match initial letter sounds to food items using phonic skills. Write a list of ingredients for a fantasy chocolate bar. Write or tell someone instructions of how to brush your teeth.