This term in Acorn class, to help the children with their Personal, Social and Emotional Development, we will continue to encourage children to understand and follow the rules that we have in school. This will include focusing on walking feet, kind hands, listening ears and one person talking at a time. We will also continue to encourage children to build friendships with each other, particularly through play. 

Our main theme in Acorn class will be "Dinosaurs." We will be exploring dinosaur names and their different appearances. We will be exploring timelines, discussing "past" and "present". We will be focusing on the tyrannosaurs and stegosaurus, exploring their body parts and skeletons and learning what carnivore and herbivore mean. We will be taking a look at paleontologists and what they do, including taking a closer look at the paleontologist Mary Anning. We will learn what a fossil is and will be creating our own. We will be exploring pterosaurs and plesiosaurs, looking at their bodies and where they lived.

In Literacy we will be exploring our core text "Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs." We will learn about the characters in the story and the different dinosaurs Harry keeps in his bucket, during both story and activity times. The children will learn 2 core rhymes "5 Enormous Dinosaurs" and "A Dinosaur Went Stomping". These rhymes will be sent home for children to share with you and help your child become more familiar with them.

In Maths we will be exploring patterns, subitising 1,2,3, counting numbers and labelling them. In shape, space and measure we will be exploring positions and routes. 

In Art we will be learning to use brushes with control and creating pictures on a large scale. We will be looking at the American artist Jackson Pollock, particularly his artwork "Number 8". We will be creating our own splatter and drip pictures. 

In phonics we will be focusing on rhymes, words that start with the same sound and words that sound the same. We will be looking at how we can make different sounds with our voices and bodies.