Summer 2
Summer Term 2 ‘Wild Explorers’
In EYFS, we will be going on a wild adventure to explore different types of animals from around the world. The children will also have first hand experience of observing and handling a range of creatures during our Spirit Of The Wild visit in July. The children will explore a range of birds of prey, amphibians, mammals and reptiles!
We will be exploring facts about animals such as their habitat, their eating habits and also learn about animal conservation.
The topic will also provide the opportunity to explore different countries around our beautiful world.
We will be using different key texts to support our learning, such as:
Handa's Surprise by Eileen Browne
The Snail and The Whale by Julia Donaldson
The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr
We're Going On a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
This is also Essex Year Of Reading!
This is a brilliant initiative launched by Essex to promote reading. Enjoying the fun of reading is the first step to becoming a confident reader, see how we can help you.
The Essex Year of Reading app will inspire you or your child to read with confidence. Use the free digital library to enjoy immersive audio readings, animations, quizzes and download texts to read offline anytime, anywhere.
You’ll find information about Essex libraries, online and in-person events as well as exciting competitions and challenges, updated throughout the year.
You’ll be able to choose from the:
- pupil library – including poetry and fiction and non-fiction stories
- literacy boosting library – including high-interest and phonics-based reading support
- parent or carer library – including guides on how to support your child’s reading and wider learning
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.nimbl.eyor
(Please click the link to download the app through google play)
https://www.getepic.com You can read many of your favourite fairytales on this site. Try free for 30 days.
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/ - Different books and games to explore
Please remember to use the hashtag on tapestry #readingrecord and have enjoyed seeing all our children reading at home.
Please continue to use #Oracy to share examples of the children's language development. At Silver End we are working to ensure that our children are confident orators that have the vocabulary and presence to share their ideas.
Click here for a video link to the Song Of Sounds
The Song of Sounds powerpoint has been added to a separate folder above.
Please remember to use the hashtag on tapestry #readingrecord and have enjoyed seeing all our children reading at home.
We have introduced a new #ParentNoticeBoard through Tapestry to share any good articles, research and strategies to support awareness of child development. We hope you have found these resources useful.
Gentle Reminders:
Please continue to practise your Songs of Sounds phonic song daily to reinforce your knowledge of letter sounds and the accompanying actions.
PE sessions to be held every Friday morning (please bring in a labelled PE uniform to be kept on the school grounds till PE session and then taken home after each session for washing - as per government guidance). Please also remember to celebrate the children's independent attempts at getting changed.
Learning logs will be handed out every Friday to be returned the following week with completed work by very latest Thursday.
Summer 2 Curriculum
PSED & C&L
This half term our topic will be 'Wild Explorers'
We will be thinking about our transition into Year 1 and the things we will be looking forward to. During this half term, EYFS children will begin to attend the whole school celebration assembly on a Friday afternoon. We will also be joining KS1 children for their morning play on the KS1 playground to have opportunities to interact with children from the KS1 classes. We will also join KS1 for lunch play. We will be thinking about the need to care for our environment through our new topic. The children will have the opportunity to learn about a range of wild animals and the need to protect those that are endangered. Through our EYFS visit, the children will also have the opportunity to handle live creatures.
We use Tapestry to share experiences from home and use our language to communicate confidently using our Oracy strategies:
- Listening to the children who are speaking
- Projecting our voices to speak clearly
- Speaking in clear sentences
- Using vocabulary to express our ideas
- Looking at our audience when we are speaking
- Making sure our hands and fingers are away from our mouths to promote clarity
Phonics
The children have made fantastic progress with their recognition of phonemes (single letters), digraphs (2 letter sounds) and trigraphs (3 letter sounds). This half term we will be developing our reading through application of phonic sounds to read cvcc, ccvc, ccvcc words. We will also be developing our 'chunking' strategy, encouraging the children to break up longer words into smaller chunks. We will also be thinking about real words (words that we use in English) and alien words (words that are made up and do not make sense). We will also be practising our recognition and formation of both upper and lower case letters.
Reading
Reading is promoted through application of phonics. We are also promoting reading for pleasure through our reading corner. Each week we have the opportunity to explore a core book to develop the children's vocabulary and imagination. We send home reading books and reading records so you can enjoy reading together at home. We have now launched our Collins Big Cat Collins resource for home. Each child has been assigned login details to access a range of texts linked to their stage of phonic development. Please continue to promote this resource at home. Each child will also to read to an adult at least twice a week in school. During this half term we will also be taking the children in small groups to our school library. This will be a fantastic way to develop reading for pleasure and also extending children's vocabulary.
Please use these links below to further your child's reading experience:
https://www.getepic.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00jdlm2/cbeebies-bedtime-stories
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=Age+4-7&level=&level_select=&book_type=&series=#
Please use the #readingrecord to add a note on Tapestry about your child's reading progress.
Writing
During our Literacy session we will be applying our phonic knowledge and the use of tricky and high frequency words to explore a range of writing features. We will be exploring caption writing, the use of finger spaces between words and simple punctuation such as full stop. We will be developing our recognition of Upper and Lower case graphemes. We will be continuing to practise correct letter formation when writing our names, cvc words and simple captions. Through our topic we will be exploring meaningful writing experiences such as writing sentences linked to story, writing about our favourite animals and writing facts that we have learned about animals.
Maths
At Silver End Academy we follow the Power Maths scheme of work. This half term we will be revisiting Odd and Even numbers, place value and measure. We will spend the remainder of the half term going over all concepts taught.
Understanding of the World
We will be exploring some of the changes that occur in our natural environment such as the changes we observe in the weather. We will also have the opportunity to visit our forest school to think and comment on the changes we can observe. The children will have the opportunity to reflect on the major events that is happening within our society. We will also think about the important experiences that we may have in our personal lives and share these moments with our class, through Tapestry and our learning logs.
Physical Development
The children are taught PE by a dedicated Sports Coach. Our PE sessions are held every Friday morning. We also have a range of fine motor activities in the classroom and the children are encouraged to use gross motor movements whilst playing outside in the garden.
Our Code of Conduct:
As a class we developed a bank of rules for us all to follow
- We share with our friends
- We will help to tidy up
- We use kind hands and feet
- We listen to each other
- We use our manners
Phonic Games
Please continue to practise your songs of sounds phonic song to reinforce your knowledge of letter sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48uf9I6P2xQ&safe=true
Phase 3 Phonic Games:
Please find attached some links to phonic games that your child can explore to develop their awareness of words with a range of digraph and trigraphs. The children can also expand their knowledge to read simple captions.
Flash Cards
Phonics Frog
Phase 2 Phonic Games:
Please find attached some links to phonic games that your child can explore to develop their awareness of and discrimination of sounds.