Kangaroos

Welcome back everyone after a fun summer!

We would like to welcome all the children joining our Kangaroos class this year.

We hope you are all ready and well- rested to engage with your friends and to participate in more exciting learning and work here at Lindon Bennett. This first autumn term, we will be exploring our new curriculum topic of ‘Me and My Community’.

The children will learn about members of their family, their friends and teachers, shops, parks and gardens and building names. During this term, the pupils in Kangaroos’s Class will be exploring and using props with different textures and getting involved in interactive stories during circle-time. The children will engage in exciting learning through the use of many sensory activities, decorating and constructing different buildings in art, exploring maps with iPads and getting creative and exploring new materials during ‘water play’ and ‘messy play’. We will focus on following directions with directional language and moving around the school, making maps to encourage gross and fine motor skills, looking at shopping lists during role play in our class ‘shop’, rhymes and songs through puppet shows, and free play to help develop their learning and  understanding.

Here in Kangaroo’s Class, we will be encouraging all children to work as independently as they can within a familiar environment, giving support to them when needed and encouraging them to join in with our activities that will help develop their social and self-help skills.

Please communicate with us through your child’s home-school diary.

Best Wishes,

Kangaroo’s Team