Puffins

Welcome to Puffins!

Where we learn and explore the world through play!

Mrs Harvey and Mrs Szypa

together with Mrs Tabner, Mrs Valentine and Mrs Conway

Spring 2 Once Upon a Time: a term full of fairy tales, storytelling, small world and role play.

Literacy

Enjoying themed weeks based on different traditional tales: 1)Three Little Pigs, 2)Little Red Riding Hood, 3)Jack and the Beanstalk, 4)Three Billy Goats Gruff, 5)Gingerbread Man and 6)Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Finding and creating own rhyming words from the story
Acting the stories out using puppets and props in the role play area
Filling in speech bubbles for different characters
Labelling and writing captions for stories illustrations
Creating own story maps
Thinking of own, different story ends
Sequencing the story events and describing main characters
Writing ‘wanted’ poster for the Wolf
Writing a recipe for gingerbread biscuits and Goldilocks’ porridge

Mathematics

Estimating how many beans can fit in Giant’s hand and comparing it to our hands
Measuring and comparing the beanstalks and Giant’s feet
Using positional language in the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Sorting objects in groups of 2, 3 and 4 for the characters from the traditional tales
Using money in a shop role play area to pay for the building materials, porridge ingredients, flowers for grandma etc
Using the language of capacity and weight while baking gingerbread biscuits

Understanding the World

Communication and Language

Listening attentively and responding to a wide range of Traditional Tales
Expressing own thoughts and opinions with confidence
Understanding and responding to ‘what’ and ‘how’ questions
Understanding the structure of a story
Re-telling and re-enacting different stories
Thinking about the sequence of events in stories and saying what happened first, next, last
Responding to other’s opinions and needs in an appropriate way

Expressive Art and Design

Physical Development

Improving and developing fine motor skills by using writing tools and manipulating sensory materials, e.g. sand, glitter, flour, play dough
Improving balance and whole-body coordination during PE sessions
Learning about healthy food
Using dance and movement to express imagination and acting the stories out

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Understanding own feelings: talking about being sad, angry, happy or excited
Understanding feelings of others: recognising and responding to other people’s emotions
Making choices: discussing fair and unfair, good and bad, right and wrong based on different fairy tales
Making own playground games and thinking of rules
Describing characters from the fairy tales: curious Little Red Riding Hood, hard-working Pig, bad Wolf, clever Jack, greedy Goldilocks

Pick and Mix Home Learning ideas

Write 5 words that rhyme with pig, goat, bear.
Do you have a favourite teddy bear that listens to bedtime stories with you? Draw and label it.
Use books or internet to find out about real wolves, goats and bears.
Have you ever tried porridge? Have a go at trying some new food and share your experiences with the class.
When you’re in a supermarket, have a look at different types, shapes, sizes and colours of beans.
Jack’s beanstalk was really really tall. Can you find 5 things that are taller and 5 things that are shorter than you?

Important Information:

PE - Monday

Changing reading books - Monday

We are here to help, so, if you have any questions or concerns, just find us and have a chat.

Alphablocks Play along with the Alphablocks and have fun with the letters of the alphabet.