Our topic this half term is ‘My Favourite Food’. We are very excited to get started with all the fun activities that we have planned. The children will learn vocabulary (including Makaton signs) and complete activities relating our topic.

The children will be going cycling every Thursday this term. Please send in jogging bottoms for them to change into for the session. Our community visit will be on a Monday afternoon this term and we have lots of lovely trips planned including parks, supermarkets and garden centres.

For PE this term we will be focussing on gymnastics and the theme is ‘Under the Sea.’ We will learn about the importance of warming up and cooling down when exercising. The children will be able to create different shapes with their bodies and improve the quality of their balancing skills on and off apparatus.

The children have been working hard with their Phonics and will be continuing to complete different activities and tasks this term. Every week we will be heading to the library to choose our favourite books to read. The children will continue to work on their letter formation, both lower case and capital letters. They will be writing the recipes of their favourite dinners and making their own recipe books to bring home.

During Maths sessions the children will be working on capacity and will be filling different sized containers to see which holds the most or the least. The children will be walking around school to complete questionnaires to find the most popular food at Papillon and will put the findings into a pictogram. They will be completing different number sentences and working on writing numbers.

Our focus in science this half term is Biology. The children will be planting seeds and observing them over the weeks. They will be experimenting to see whether they grow better outside or inside. We will also be taking flowers apart and looking at the different parts.

As part of their creative development, children will be making a variety of different craft activities that will tie in with our topic. They will be using fruit and vegetable printing and making a food rainbow. We will talk about what we would like to cook in class and if there are any new foods we wish to try. The children will also enjoy different sensory activities and attention circles linked to the topic.

Our Jigsaw PSHE topic this half term is “Relationships”. We will talk about relationships with families and with our friends and how we can help and respect others.

We look forward to another exciting half term.

Lauren and the Team