Spring 1 2025

Growing
Personal and Social Development
January brings new Starfish.  Our oldest children will be role models, showing the younger Starfish the ropes!  This is a great opportunity for the children to show how responsible they can be and how much they know about being a Super Starfish at Amble Links.  
The children will continue to interact with existing friends as well as making new ones, using talk to communicate with adults and children.
Literacy
We will be continuing our phonics programme Monster Phonics.   The activities are interactive and involve developing  listening and attention, phonetical awareness  comprehension.  Understanding which is the 'odd one out' will be one of the games, why not have a go at this online version.  Talk to your child about the various objects, naming each item and see if they can say which is the odd one out.
Maths
We will be building on the learning we did during the Autumn term when we focused on 1,2,3 - counting and recognising this amount.  This half term we will work up to number 5, counting, beginning to subitise and showing quantities on our fingers.  We will continue to learn rhymes to help us to write each number, forming them correctly.  In Shape, Space and Measures we will become more familiar with days of the week, learning that different things can take place on different days.  
Help your child with their counting using the link below;
Understanding the World
Our ‘Wonderful Weather’ topic has been very popular so we will continue to talk about and monitor the weather as we move through the seasons.  
This half term our 'Growing' topic will get the children thinking about what things grow, why they grow and what happens as things grow.  We will be learning about animals and their babies, naming and matching animals to their young. The children will learn about the environment they live in and how they can care about where they live. We will learn about life cycles of animals using stories such as ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’