Parent/Carer Information

Homework Project Please support your child to find out as much as they can about how we can help the animals in

Autumn and Winter.

They could think about:Which animals they would like to make a dish for?

What foods do the animals like to eat?What are they going to make it out of?Where are they going to put it? why?

Record and take photographs of which animals come to eat it.

The children can present their project in any way i.e. drawings of or photographs on a poster.Projects are due in on Friday 15th December.

Year FS2Miss Cooper & Miss

Beeley Autumn 1b 2017

Below is a brief outline of what your child will be learning during this half term

Why do squirrels hide their nuts?

LiteracyPhonics Daily phonics introducing

children to individual letter sounds and beginning to segment and blend to read and write words and sentences

Stories Squirrels busy day Owl babies non-fiction wildlife books

Communication and language building vocabulary that

reflects a range of experiences

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Be aware of their own feelings and to know that their words and actions can affect others around them.

working as a group and in a team to manage challenges such as travelling around the room in a v formation just like migrating birds.

Play in groups elaborating on others

Maths Ordering objects by size and

using language smallest to biggest.

Looking at patterns and recreating repeating patterns with objects and pictures.

Beginning to add sets of objects together and count them as a whole set.

Finding the number that is one more that a number 1-20.

Recognising and placing numbers in order using

Expressive Arts and Dezign

Use Autumn shades to create various autumn artwork.

Explore with materials such as leaves, twigs and conquers to make pictures and different 2d shapes.

make playdough hedgehogs

Understanding the world Using construction to make homes

for woodland creatures.

Looking and thinking about types of animals that hibernate and how birds migrate.

Looking at the habitats of animals i.e. trees, underground..

Looking at the changes in autumn and observing the changes around them.Physical Development

throwing and catching a large ball then a small ball

Various balances using 3, 2

Things to remember!!! To bring book bags to school every day. Please listen to your child read 3 times

per week.

Practise the flashcards with the letter