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Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage
October 2015
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum (EYFS)
EYFS Profile Phonics Reading Maths General Information
Aim of the Evening
How do young children learn?
Playing and Exploring – engagement
Active Learning – motivation
Creating and Thinking Critically - thinking
Characteristics of effective learning
Principles of the EYFS Curriculum
A unique child Positive
relationships Enabling
environments Learning and
development
The Early Years Curriculum
The Three Prime Areas of Learning
Personal, social and emotional development.
Communication and language.
Physical development.
Four further areas
Mathematics Literacy Understanding the
World Expressive Arts and
Design
Self registration (choosing lunch)
Exploring and learning Reading/Big Book Whole class session Adult guided activities Child initiated learning Phonics
What does a school day look like?
Lunch in the hall Playtime after lunch Handwriting and busy fingers More adult guided activities and child initiated learning Story time Home time
And then…
Using the Early Learning Goals an assessment of your child’s progress is made throughout the year.
These assessments are based on
observations and information gathered.
The assessments results are, in June, reported to yourselves, Year 1 teachers and County.
Assessment
Share information about what your child can do during parent interviews and through ‘WOW’ stickers.
Comment on what your child can do in your purple message book.
Comment on how children have responded to reading at home.
Encourage independence and a love of learning.
How can Parents Help?
In Reception we teach a daily phonics lesson following the Letters and Sounds scheme where children are taught to say, read and write sounds.
The children are currently learning to hear different sounds, rhyme and alliteration. These form the basic skills needed before learning to read and write.
We focus on teaching the children the name of a letter and to say the sound the letter makes.
We teach children to say the pure sound, without adding ‘uh’!
There are 6 phases within Letters and Sounds. Phases 1-4 are taught in Reception.
Some words you may hear:◦ Phoneme◦ Grapheme◦ Digraph◦ Trigraph
We ensure the teaching and learning of each letter and sound is made fun and interactive.
We teach the children to use their sound knowledge to read simple words. (sound blend)
m-a-t matsh-o-p shop
We teach children to use their fingers to help spell words. We touch each finger as we say each sound.
c-a-t catk-i-ng king
Tricky Words
Along side our phased phonic teaching we teach the children ‘tricky words’ which cannot be easily decoded.
For example:the, to, go, all, was, you, are, they
These are fed into our phonics planning for the children to learn by sight.
Encourage your child to teach you the sounds they have been taught.
Find the letters to match the sounds when you are reading together.
Find objects in the house that start with certain sounds.
How you can help at home
Children read with an adult at least once a week.
Messages and children’s progress can be recorded in the purple message book.
Children will bring home high frequency words for you to practise together at home (these will include some of the tricky words taught in phonics).
Reading
Share a variety of books with your child. Listen to your child ‘read’ regularly. Join a library. Read to your child exposing them to
more complex language. Practise reading key words.
How you can help at home
We encourage lots of gross and fine motor movements to improve pencil control.
Writing is closely linked to phonics.
We use an interactive handwriting scheme – Penpals.
Writing
Encourage your child to have a go using the sounds they have learnt through phonics.
Exercising muscles e.g. monkey bars, climbing frames, wheelbarrow races, pegging, squeezing sponges, bead threading
How you can help at home
Fun Active Thematic Purposeful Successful
Mathematics
Counting Counting objects reliably Using mathematical language Practical addition and subtraction.
Developing number strategies
2D/3D shape. Repeating patterns. Measures- non standard units. Comparing quantities. Problem solving.
Other aspects of mathematical development
How you can help at home
Use real money Use time vocabulary Play board games Use mathematical language Continue to spot numbers in the
environment.
Foster independence. Named clothes. Reward system. Book bags. Wellies, rain coats and sunhats. Long hair tied back. Named clothes.
General Information