Communication and Language
-Talk to your child about their day at school and tell them about your day.
-Talk about the different journeys you make and how you travel.-Share stories from your childhood with your child. Did you have a favourite science fiction story growing up?
-Look up into the night sky, can you see the North Star? Jupiter? Talk about what else might be out there, aliens, other universes.
Core books we will be looking at this half term are:-
The Way Back Home- Oliver JeffersHanda’s Surprise – Eileen Browne
Non fiction books about Space
Red Riding Hood - Ladybird Tales
The Great Race- Dawn Casey
Hansel and Gretel - Ladybird Tales
Roaring Rockets- Tony Mitton
Jim and the Beanstalk- Raymond Briggs
Mr Gumpy’s Motor Car / PSED
- Encourage your child to dress and undress independently, including zips, socks, sunhats.
- Encourage your child to help you to do simple jobs like washing up, tidying clothes and toys away and taking washing out of the machine.
- Establish a clear routine for mornings and
evenings.
-Make sure your child is going to bed at a reasonable time.
- Bring your child to school on time, pick them up on time and ensure they attend regularly.
-Encourage your child to eat a range of food and to feed themselves independently.
-Please encourage your child to eat a healthy breakfast.
-Limit the time your child spends using electronic devices, ipads, tablets, phones etc. /
Physical Development
-Take your child to play in one of the local parks or the forest.
-Give your child as many opportunities as
possible to run, jump, skip, hop and climb.
- Play throwing and catching games together.
- Encourage your child to have a go at doing
up the buttons on cardigans and zips
by themselves.
-Encourage your child to make downward vertical movements with their arms as this will help them with writing.-Making anticlockwise circles will also be beneficial, this could be running in circles, or cycling or even scooting.
Literacy
-Talk about different story settings that you might see in books and on T.V and films. Space, planets, underwater. Talk about your favourite characters from stories that you read together.
- Read your child’s PACT books to them. Listen to them reading their reading books and practising phonics sounds.
-Help them to write their name and recognise their name.
- Sing rhymes and songs, make up rhymes and songs.
- Give your child the chance to handle books and see different types of print, e.g newspaper, leaflets, signs, packaging etc.
- Provide your child with pencils, crayons, paints, brushes and equipment to draw and make marks
with.
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Creative Development.
-Encourage your child to role play their favourite stories. Make a mask or dress up as aliens, astronauts etc.- Provide your child with access to paints, crayons, glue, paper, scissors etc.
- Put on some music and dance!! - Sing songs.
- Play shops/ doctors/ tea parties etcUnderstanding of the World
-London offers many different opportunities to travel by bus, tube, train, cable car and boat.
-Visit the Royal Observatory in Greenwich for free. The Planetarium is a wonderful experience and a family ticket is £20 for four.
-There are many apps available to look at the night sky, look for skywalk on itunes. / Mathematics
- Count everyday objects such as cars and buses. How many people do you think are inside. Can you count them?
- Look at numbers in the environment for example on buses and talk about them.
- Practise writing numbers 0-10 and then 10 – 20
Talk about door numbers as you walk along the street.
- Sing number songs/ Play number games with dice.
- Use mathematical language such as bigger and smaller taller/smaller and help your child to understand the difference.
- Compare objects of different heights and lengths. Talk about things that are tall and short.
- Count in two’s, tens and fives.
-Let your child experience money in real life situations, pay for an apple etc..