Caterpillar Class
Class teacher’s welcome
Welcome to Caterpillar class.
It is going to be a fun-filled, productive and exciting year and we hope to enrich your child’s learning with plenty of opportunities to learn through play . They will build on their language and communication skills, develop their knowledge of number and have fun developing their creative skills. In both adult led and child initiated activities, they will learn about the world and the environment around them. We aim to help the children grow as individuals whilst fostering a love of learning.
Curriculum news
Spring 1
Theme – Weather and Chinese New Year
Phonics
- We will be teaching Phase 3 phonics {ai, ee, oo, ar, oa, er, ur, igh, ow, oi, ear, air}
- Each Friday your child will bring home their guided reading book and a book of their own choice! They will also bring home their phonic sounds book.
Reading
Children will bring home a book with words in to practise their blending skills. The aim is for the children to eventually read the word without sounding out. Keep supporting their blending. This book is the guided reading book which they have read three times throughout the week. It will be sent home on a Friday with their phonics book.
Maths
- Recognising numbers up to 20
- Composition of numbers
- Looking at numbers up to 8
- Differences in two numbers and explaining
- Looking at the ‘whole’ and ‘parts’ of a number {eg. 4 can be 3 and 1}
- Ordinal numbers- The Great Race Chinese New Year
Knowledge & Understanding of the World.
- Weather and changes in the seasons
- How rainbows are formed
- Chinese New Year celebrations {food tasting!}
Religious Education
- Why is God so important to Christians?
- Chinese New Year and differences in festivals
Outdoors
- Changing of the seasons. Collecting and measuring rainwater. Looking at frost, ice, snow, rain, wind.
- Please make sure your child has a waterproof coat in school. We enjoy the outdoors in any weather!
Expressive Arts & Design
- Bubble wrap printing and making raindrop images
- Rainbow shakers
- Chinese New Year creativity! {dragons masks, dances}
- Making weather music
PSHE
- Keeping myself safe
Links to support learning
The children are beginning to blend and read simple words. This is a very exciting time and the children are eager to read. Please support your child by encouraging them to read their book as often as they can. Your support and encouragement at home is vital in ensuring success. Below are links to some useful websites to support learning.
Phonics and segmenting and blending:You can download the presentation and handout to find out more about how we teach phonics using the Little Wandle resources.
All of the resources referred to are in the For parents area
Games
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/phonics/balloon-phonics-cvc-game
https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/bingoOriginal/index.html
Phase 2 practise:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2yf4j
https://www.teachyourmonster.org/teachers-area/learning-resources/phonics-songs
https://www.starfall.com/h/word-machines/
Numbers to 10 counting:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting