Welcome to the Turtle Class

Talented 

Unique

Resilient

Truthful

Loyal

Enthusiastic

I am Mrs Booth and I am excited to be your class teacher. We have lots of amazing teaching assistants that will be working with us that will care for us and help us with our learning. This page is for our parents and children to use together. It includes information about what FS2 are learning, key dates, homework and helpful websites.

Please click here to download the FS2 Writing Standards

The medium term plan of this half term is linked at the bottom of this page.

Our topic for both summer terms is about animals.

Summer 1 is Animal Kingdom

We will be learning about a variety of different animals, such as pets, farm animals, zoo animals and minibeasts. In literacy, we will be using the stories from the ‘Mog’ series, ‘Rosie’s Walk’, ‘Dear Zoo’, ‘Minibeast Bop’ and ‘Superworm’ as a stimulus for our writing. We will be retelling the stories, thinking about what happens at the beginning, middle and end. The children will be using their phonics knowledge to write words, phrases and sentences in each of the stories. We will be writing captions for the different minibeasts who attended the minibeast bop. We will also be writing speech bubbles for the different characters in the Superworm story.

In maths, we will be focusing on learning height, length, addition and subtraction.

During the afternoons, the children will be learning how to take care of pets and how pets can differ around the world. We will also be looking at farming, what animals live on farms, what baby animals are called, what grows on a farm and comparing farming around the world. Additionally, we will be looking at different minibeasts and comparing insects in the UK to insects around the world. We will also be looking at life cycles and focusing on the life cycle of a butterfly.

Key Vocabulary

diet, threat, endangered, protect, woodland, pet

 

Summer 2 is Journey Around the World 

In Literacy, we will be continuing to learn about animals by using a variety of classic bookshelf books as a stimulus for our writing. For Rumble in the Jungle, we will be writing animal poems and looking at rhyming words. For ‘Sharing a Shell’, we will be writing captions about the story. Additionally, we will be choosing an Arctic animal to write facts about. Moreover, for ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and ‘Room on the Broom', we will then be diving into the wonderful world of fantasy and writing descriptive words, phrases and sentences about the stories using phonics knowledge.

In maths, we will be looking at doubling, sharing, odd an even numbers, numbers to 20, weight and capacity.

During the afternoons, we continue to focus on animals. We will be looking at wild animals and their differing habitats around the world. We will be discussing how some animals are endangered and how climate change is contributing to destroying animal’s habitats. Additionally, we will be focusing on polar animals and looking at the animals that live at the north and south pole. We will also be focusing, again, on climate change and how polar habitats are being destroyed. We will be looking at what we can do to help stop this. Moreover, we will also be looking at the British seaside, how they have changed over time and what geographical features we can spot at the seaside. Also, we will be looking at different modes of transport and how they have changed over time.

Key Vocabulary

climate, polar, habitat, desert, rainforest  

Phonics

Over the two half-terms, we will be continuing to learn new phonic sounds and words.

Some children are practising reading and writing words and sentences using phase 2 phonics and will start to learn new phase 3 sounds.

Some children that have previously learnt some phase 3 sounds, tricky words and high-frequency words, will continue to use these sounds to blend and read both real and alien words. We will also begin to start learning phase 4 blends, tricky words and high-frequency words. We will be learning to use these blends to read both real and alien words.

Story time 

Books shared at story time have been carefully selected to ensure our pupils; learn new vocabulary, speak in clear sentences, develop their conversational skills, deepen their understanding and ask and answer questions.

Please click here to look at the FS2 Medium Term Planning 

Important Information

• Our P.E days will be Thursday morning and Monday afternoon. Please make sure your P.E kit is in school on these days and labelled with your name and class.
• Please make sure your planner is in school every day, so we are able to tell your grown ups about your school learning and what you can be working on at home.
• You will be able to take two books home per week. The first book will be for you to read to develop your fluency and the second book will be for you to share with your grown-up.

Dates for your diary

fFS2 Trip to Cannon Hall Farm - 29th April 

Turtle Creative afternoon - Thursday 15th May 1:30pm

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 first challenges for you to try. 

Other home learning activities:

• Reading at home each night.

• Practise the phonics sounds we have been learning
• Practise the tricky words and high frequency words we have been learning.
• Sort the real and alien words on www.phonicsplay.co.uk