This term we are looking at 'How big is a beast?'.

This half-term in Year R, the Cygnets and Ducklings will receive a mysterious egg in which we will predict and share our thoughts on what might come out of the egg. This will support the theme of our half-term around beasts.  We will be reading lots of texts around eggs, dinosaurs, animals and monsters to broaden the children's knowledge and imaginations and story telling.

We will continue to support the children to apply their phonic knowledge to their writing. Take part in a range of fine motor and gross motor activities to support our pencil grip and letter formation. Over this half-term some of the planned writing opportunities include missing posters, dinosaur and animal fact files and descriptions of their very own mythical creatures.

In Maths, we will continue to build on their understanding of numbers to 20, more and less, and adding two numbers together. We will look at height and length and compare objects. 

We are excited to see where the world of mythical creatures and beasts takes us this half-term. A large proportion of our learning will be based around the children's interests, so who knows how our learning will conclude this half-term?