Welcome to the Butterflies!

Hello and welcome!

*Meet the Butterflies grown-ups*

The grown-ups in the Butterflies class are Miss Barkes and Miss Farmer. We love teaching the Butterflies and we are so proud of their achievements!

If you ever have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you! 

*Our Christian Value for the term*

Our Christian value for this term is 'Compassion'.

Compassion and ‘sympathy’ have much in common and both are stronger in meaning than simply ‘feeling sorry for’ someone.

The words have their roots in the idea of ‘suffering with’ someone, putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and experiencing what they experience.

To show compassion, you are also demonstrating love and kindness.

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”

Mother Teresa

‘Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.’ Colossians 3:12

*Our Learning for this term*

Autumn 2 Term

We have  started our new term by learning about celebrations - Diwali and Bonfire Night.  These have provided opportunities for the children to  explore the importance of lights, fireworks, celebratory rituals and food.  As the term progresses, we will be learning all about the Christmas Story, and the significance of the Nativity.  Children will be learning songs to help them retell the story in our performance.

Autumn is now upon us, and children have been investigating seasonal change, creating autumn art inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy, and learning about how our local environment changes through the seasons. 

We will be using some lovely autumn books to help with building storytelling and writing skills.  Stick Man and Owl Babies are going to provide writing opportunities for the children, as we introduce 'Drawing Club', and we will be also learning about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

In phonics we continue to use the Little Wandle phonics scheme, which involves learning new phonemes daily, starting to blend them together to read short CVC words, and spelling, too! This will develop as the children increase their skills and confidence.

The children are becoming better and better at maths, as they continue to build number skills using our 'Mastering Number' scheme.  Counting, subitising and number recognition, and problem solving with numbers are all skills we encourage every day during child initiated play.

As we approach Christmas, the children will have lots of opportunities to get involved in a range of artistic activities, and we will be making lots of Christmas themed items!

We will be learning about how Christmas is celebrated around the world, so children can begin to learn about cultural differences, and all the amazing ways in which we are all different!

Autumn 1 term

We are delighted to welcome our new Butterflies into our St Faith's family!

Miss Barkes and Miss Farmer are very excited about getting to know the children as we start the new academic year together.

The children will be learning through their play, both inside the classroom, and outside.  We have different areas within the classroom, which we enhance and change regularly. This enables the children  to learn and develop their skills in different contexts, and in lots of exciting ways.

This term we are planning much of our provision and activities around the book 'The Paper Dolls' by Julia Donaldson. We will be learning about families, growth, harvests and farms.  We will be using other texts to support the children's learning, including Starting School, Monkey Puzzle, The Enormous Turnip, My Skin, Your Skin, Farmer Duck and the Three Little Pigs.

Our Little Wandle phonics scheme begins in Week 2, and children will learn letters and sounds daily, in order to begin to read and write. They will have the opportunity to practise their skills by writing in sand, flour, rice and salt as well as on paper with mark making equipment.

We will start 'Mastering Number' on Week 3; our maths scheme which focuses on practical activities to develop the children's mathematical counting and number recognition skills.

We will be singing, being creative and learning all about the world around us, too!

Please let us know if your child has a particular interest or area of expertise -  we will try our best to make sure our classroom provision reflects their interests, so they can follow their own lines of enquiry, and continue to be inspired!

Medium Term Plan Autumn Term 1 2024

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