Personal, Social and Emotional
Development
What can my child do at
home?
Encourage your child to look at and share a
variety of books. Let them talk about the
pictures, and what they think might happen
in the book. Can they recognise letters in
the text? Can they sound out some words?
This term the theme is
focusing specifically on
feelings, particularly
within the context of our
important relationships,
including family and
friends.
Relationships:
 I can tell you how I
am feeling about someone.
 I can share thoughts, feelings and ideas.
 I can express feelings.
 I can make connections between different parts
of my life experience.
Knowing Myself:
 I can tell you what I can do now that I couldn’t do
when I started school.
 I can tell you how I have changed.
 I can sometimes tell you how change makes me
feel.
 When I feel bad, I know that it helps to do
something different.
 I know how to help
someone when they
are feeling sad.
At home:
Have a chat with
your child about the
interesting things
they did in school
and how they and
their friends felt.
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Encourage them to look around them and
talk about what they see and hear. This
could be on the way to school, in the park
or on a shopping trip.
Talk to your child about your family and
cultural background. For example: clothing,
language and food.
Help your child to be organised –
Have
you got your school bag?
there any letters
for me in your
Homework Diary?
Early Years
Parent Information
Booklet
Are
Do
you have your
PE kit (EY Red
Monday, EY Grey
Tuesday) and
swimming kit (all EY
Wednesday)?
you need
anything for your
snack and lunch?
What your child
will be learning
about this term and
what they can do
at home
Do
Apr-Jul 2015
What we will be learning this term...
Communication, Language and
Literacy
Letter Names and
Sounds: We will
be using songs,
games and rhymes
to help students
remember the
Letter names in
alphabetical order.
We will use the Jolly Phonics scheme to learn
the sounds of letters x and y. Through games
and activities, students will start to distinguish
the beginning sound of a word and to build
words.
At home: Encourage your child to sing alphabet
songs or rhymes. Your child can play phonics
games (e.g. Eye Spy—guessing the word;
Charades – guessing words through miming or
drawing).
Look at jollylearning.co.uk/gallery/audio-2 to
learn about the letter sounds.
Writing:
Students will be learning how to build words.
They will be encouraged to use letter sounds to
build words during free flow play as well as in
adult led group
activities. They will
practise writing simple
phrases (a pen, a dog,
the cat).
At home: Let your child
build some words
using letter puzzles in
a fun way.
Speaking and Listening:
Students will practise their skills during speech and
drama sessions, using nursery rhymes and acting out
some characters of a story.
Numeracy
Counting:
We will be practising
number arrangements,
ascending and
descending, from 1 to
10. Students will be
learning to recognise
the numerals 11 to 20,
and count up to 20
everyday objects
confidently. We will practise recognising the
number “before” and “after” a specific number, and
filling in the missing number. We will be using rhymes
and games to help students become familiar with the
vocabulary of addition and subtraction. Students will
find ’one more’ and ’one less’ when comparing up to
five objects.
At home: Encourage your child to sing any counting
songs and rhymes they know. They can practise
counting
numbers to 10
and beyond. Use
things from
around the house
to help with this
(spoons, sweets,
colouring pencils,
toys etc).
Knowledge and Understanding of
the World
Our topic for this
term will be the
Animal Kingdom.
We will look how
animals are
classified, and will
categorise them into
wild and domestic
animals.
The class will role play a farm, and handle a
variety of toy farm animals and animal puppets
to act out and tell stories.
At home: If you are out and about, ask your child
to look at the different types of animals around
them. See if they
can identify animals
of different
classifications.
Watch some age
appropriate National
Geographic and
Animal Planet
programmes about
animals.
Music
We will be studying pace in music, and looking
at three different speeds: slow, medium and fast.
At home: When listening to music, talk with your
child about whether it has a slow, medium or fast
pace.