Author: DHallihan

EYFS Term 5 Animal Safari

Maths
This term we will be exploring numbers 20 and beyond. The children will be beginning the term by developing a deeper understanding of numbers to 10 and beyond.
Children will be looking at where these numbers are placed on a numberline and will use stem sentences to explain their reasoning, For example 11 is 10 and 1 more.

Literacy
Our core text this term is ‘Where The Wild Things Are’. The children will be introduced to this text when they discover some footprints and a clump of fur within the class. Using the evidence, the children will imagine their own Wild Thing character and write simple sentences to describe it.
In addition to this, we will read other texts, such as Superworm, Hand's Surprise and What the Ladybird Heard.
Phonics
In phonics we will focus on consolidating phase 2 and 3 phonemes taught so far . The children will also be asked to read words, with speed, identify the digraphs within words and sentences and read sentences ensuring understanding and meaning.
Tricky words: Review all taught so far .

Religious Education
Our big Question for the term is: What stories are special and why?
This term we will be learning about World faiths. We will start with the children talking and telling us about their favourite stories and why they like them. The children will then begin to learn about stories from different world faiths.
The story of Jonah and the whale will lead on to learning about the Jewish faith. Next the children will hear stories from the Muslim, Sikhism and Hindu faiths.

Understanding the World
Our two projects this term are called ‘Animal Safari’ and ‘Creep, Crawl and Wriggle’. ‘Animal Safari teaches children about the animals that live around the world, how to look after animals and the importance of caring for our local and global environments. ‘Creep, Crawl and Wriggle’ looks at invertebrates that live in our gardens and local environment. Creep, crawl and wriggle encourages children to investigate find out about and classify animals and insects around our school. grounds.

Expressive Arts and Design
In expressive arts and design we will start by looking at patterns. The children will mix colours to make animal patterns and will paint and draw their own. They will learn how to select appropriate tools to draw with and will experiment with using different types of lines– thick, think, straight zigzag, curvy and dotty.
The children will also create their own animal habitats after researching and exploring world wide animals habitats, including rainforests, desert, arctic tundras oceans and more.

Music
This term in music we will be learning songs about animals and insects. Within the lesson, the children will learn to use instruments to keep a rhythm and create their own songs and music.

PSHE
In our PSHE sessions ‘Fake is a Mistake’ Boris will teach the children that we don’t have to pretend to be something that we are not. The children will start by watching a video of Boris telling the children about a time that he could fly. The children will begin to think why Boris is lying and that he did not have to lie because he is great as he is. Turner and Rousseau children will be reminded that they are amazing just as they are, and do not need to elaborate the truth and that we are all special and unique.