Welcome to Summer Term 2!

Get ready for an exciting second half of the summer term, as Reception dives into the tiny world of minibeasts! We'll be exploring everything from wiggly worms to fluttering butterflies.

What we'll be learning:

• Identifying different minibeasts: Ladybirds, snails, spiders, bees, and more!
• Where they live: Discovering their habitats in our school grounds.
• What they eat and how they move: Understanding their unique behaviors.
• Why they're important: Learning about the big jobs these tiny creatures do for our planet.

Throughout the term, we'll be encouraging the Hedgehogs to ask questions and be curious about the world around them, develop their communication and collaboration skills, use their imaginations and be creative, and build their confidence and independence.

We are looking forward to a fun and engaging half-term filled with exciting adventures! Keep an eye on this page for updates and photos of our learning journey.

Some of the texts that we will be reading and exploring are: 

- The Very Hungry Caterpillar

- Superworm

- The Bad Tempered Ladybird

- Mad about minibeasts

- A bug's world 

- Twist and hop, minibeast bop. 

Phonics

During this half term for phonics we will be learning new digraphs and trigraphs from Level 3 of our phonics scheme. We will learn 2 new sounds a week from this list in this order or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, er, ue, ure and ture. We also learn 2 new tricky words a week on a Friday and have a go at using these words in our sentence writing. Tricky are words that we have to know by sight because they are words that we can't sound out. 

Maths

This half term we will be looking at an array of topics from our scheme that we follow as a school called White Rose Maths, including: 

- Manipulate, Compose and Decompose

- Sharing and Grouping

- Visualise, build and map 

PE

This half term for PE we are looking at games, team building games and also getting ourselves ready for Sports Day which is near the end of this half term. We will be practising the different races we will be doing which include, sprinting, throwing and egg and spoon races. 

RE

For RE this half term our topic is "What makes places special?" where we will be looking at different religions and where there special places are and what makes these places special. 

PSHE

Again we will be using our Jigsaw scheme for our PSHE lessons and this half term we will be learning about "Changing Me" and learning about ourbodies and that we are all different, and how we respect our own bodies and understand that our bodies change as we get older.