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Welcome to the Elephant class with Miss Foster and the FS0 team. This page is for our parents and children to use together. It includes information about what FS0 are learning, key dates, homework and helpful websites.

Please click here to download the FS0 Topic Long Term Plan 

Summer Term

Our topic for Summer 1 is… “The Great Outdoors”

This term is all about the outdoors and the world around us. We will be learning about the weather, days of the week, plants, animals and more! To support our learning, we will be reading stories such as "Life is a Rainbow", "Spring" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".

Our craft activities this term will include painting rainbows, bottle flower printing and sponge stamping. Other learning activities taking place are: completing a weather chart, developing pencil control using dot-to-dots and mazes, as well as learning the simple life cycle of a butterfly and completing worksheets about hot and cold seasons. Other areas of development we will be focussing on throughout both summer terms are identifying emotions and what they look like, working on skills which will aid independence and learning to count. For our WOW Moment, we are really excited to go on a visit to our local park! This will benefit the children's understanding of simple instructions and rules, physical development skills and also encourage environmental phonics skills by listening to sounds around them.

 

Please click here to view our Medium Term Planning: MTP Summer 1 

 

Our Topic for Summer 2 is... “Bear Necessities”

Our final topic together is all about bears! Stories we will read this term include "Peace at Last", "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", "This is the Bear" and "We're Going on the Bear Hunt". These stories will support children in learning about emotions and what can make you feel this way. Key vocabulary will be to learn the names of different bears, key body part features and labelling emotions.

We hope to have lots of fun alongside our learning for our final half-term together! We will be bringing together everything we have learnt to create activities which are fun and engaging. Some craft we will take part in this term are handprint bears, using forks to make a bear's face, making different types of bears, such as brown bears, grizzly bears, polar bears and pandas! To further support learning and development, we plan on going on a bear hunt around the school, completing size and weight activities as well as playing ball games and identifying features of our families.

 

Please click here to view our Medium Term Planning: Summer 2 MTP

 

Dates for your diary

W.c 12th May- Park Visit

Friday 6th June- Eid al-Adha

Friday 6th June- Wear it Red for Raspberry Day

Wednesday 9th July- FS Sports Fun Morning

Thursday 10th July- Teddy Bears Picnic

Friday 18th July- Stay and Play 1.30pm-2.30pm

 

Home Learning

Each half term we will send out a home learning bingo grid with tasks for you to complete at home. Here are the Spring challenges for you to try. 

           

The Elephant Room 

The Elephant Room is a fun, engaging, exciting, safe and secure space!

    

The children take part in a variety of activities including singing, Tumble Tots, art and crafts, building, sand and water play, dressing up and much more!

   

We encourage all children to be independent, kind, resilient, polite and caring.