What can you do at the seaside?

This term, we will explore the story of ‘The Light Housekeeper’s Lunch’, by Ronda and David Armitage. We will learn about healthy eating and make our own picnics.

Then, we will read ‘Lucy and Tom at the Seaside’, by Shirley Hughes, discovering all the fun things we can do at the beach.

We will finish the term by reading a variety of poems about sea creatures using ‘Commotion in the Ocean’, by Giles Andreae. We will explore line, colour and sculpture using the sea as our inspiration.

Our PSHE Jigsaw theme is ‘Changing me’. We will discuss our transition to Reception and meet our new teachers. We will also learn about sun safety so that we can be safe whilst having fun in the sun at nursery and on our holidays.

Through our phonics, we will continue to learn new letters, their sounds and letter names as well as how to correctly form the letters. We will continue to develop our blending skills to read consonant, vowel, consonant (CVC) and consonant, consonant, vowel, consonant/ consonant, vowel, consonant, consonant (CCVC/CVCC) words. As well as listening to the sounds in words in order to write them, using sound mats and letter formation ditties to help us.

The Development Matters outcomes that we will be focusing on are:

Communication, Language and Literacy

• Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important.
• Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what has been said to them.
• Listen to and talk about stories to build familiarity and understanding.
• Use a wider range of vocabulary.
• Know many rhymes, be able to talk about familiar books, and be able to tell a long story.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Express their feelings and consider the feelings of others.
• Show resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge.

Physical Development

• Revise and refine the fundamental skills they have already acquired: rolling, crawling, walking, jumping, running, hopping, skipping, climbing.
• Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently.
• Further develop the skills they need to manage the school day successfully: lining up and queuing, mealtimes, personal hygiene.

Literacy

• Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them.
• Form lower-case and capital letters correctly.
• Blend sounds into words, so that they can read short words made up of known letter-sound correspondences.

Mathematics

• Count objects, actions and sounds.
• Count beyond ten.
• Continue, copy and create repeating patterns.
• Make comparisons between objects relating to size, length, weight and capacity.

Understanding the World

• Explore and talk about different forces they can feel.
• Talk about what they see, using a wide vocabulary.
• Show interest in different occupations.
• Recognise that people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in different ways.
• Understand the effect of changing seasons on the natural world around them.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Sing in a group or on their own, increasingly matching the pitch and following the melody.
• Create collaboratively sharing ideas, resources and skills.