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Dear Parents/Carers, April 2022
The children have settled back in like they’ve never been away. They have been keen to share their holiday news with us and it sounds like you all had a lovely break.
Full of Beans!
This term the children have chosen to learn about plants and growing. We will begin our topic by reading different versions of Jack and the Beanstalk. We will then sequence the story and retell it using puppets before the children have a go at writing the story in their own words. We are going to plant our own beans to see if we can grow giant beanstalks! The children will keep a bean diary and sequence the life cycle of a bean. We will also be sharing lots of non-fiction books about plants and growing.
We will look at other stories related to the growing theme such as Jasper’s Beanstalk and Jack and the Jelly Beanstalk.
We are looking forward to growing our own sunflowers and gardening in our outdoor area. We will be sketching flowers, painting sunflowers and collaging beanstalks.

The children have now been introduced to all the ‘special friends’ in Set 2. This term we will recap them and practise reading and writing the sounds in words.
Letter formation and handwriting is developing well and the children are enjoying writing independently for a variety of purposes, for example, a label for their model, a list for their shopping in the role-play area or a recount of their experiences in the holiday. We are encouraging the correct use of capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. In class the children are learning to spell some common red words correctly such as the, he, she, you.
Keep up the great work you are doing at home listening to your child read their reading books and working on their red word lists. Don’t forget to write in your child’s diary as when you do we award Dojo points and the points contribute to class rewards. Try to listen to your child read daily.

Maths
The children have become very interested in money! We have been paying for things in the role-play shop using the correct coin and it would be great if you could look at real coins together at home!
This term we will be focusing on Numbers to 20 and Beyond. The children will be encouraged to recognise numbers to twenty and above. They will begin to understand place value and know that a teen number is made up of one ten and several ones.
If your child is not yet reciting (saying) numbers in order from 1-20 or recognising numbers to 20 then please keep practising at home.
We will also introduce problem solving using doubling, halving and sharing.
We have now learnt numbers to 20 and will continue to work on recognising, writing, ordering and counting with them.

Role-play Area
This term the children will continue to access the home corner and have chosen to have a role-play Garden Centre. If anyone has any of the following you would like to donate they would come in very handy: seeds, gardening gloves, plants/ flowers (real or plastic!), or anything else you can think of! We will also be planting in our outdoor area if you anything spare to donate.
Thank you in advance.
PE
We will have PE on a Monday and this term we are working with Simon the tennis coach so the children will need to wear PE kit. On Thursday’s we will continue our small group golf sessions with Mr Game and no PE kit is required (with the exception of Thursday 28th when the children will take part in All Stars Cricket and will wear PE kit that day).
In PHSE we will continue our weekly Calm Me sessions with Jigsaw Jennie followed by circle times about relationships.

Thank you again for all of your support.
Please do not hesitate to catch one of us in the morning with any queries or concerns, no matter how small you may think they are. Or alternatively you are welcome to email or ring if you would like a longer conversation.
The Foundation Stage Team
Ms Bytheway and Mrs Hudson

Superhero Den! / Children’s magazines / Comics / Books / Superhero posters / Material for capes and eye masks / Unwanted aeroplane eye masks (eye holes will be cut out)	Super Christmas den / Wrapping paper / Unwanted/used Christmas cards / Tags / Tinsel / Envelopes / Gift bags / Toy brochures/catalogues	Home corner / Newspapers / Unwanted mobile phones/landline phones / Plastic utensils / Unwanted TV remotes / Empty shampoo bottles / Empty washing up liquid bottles
Anything else you can think of!