Reception
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Literacy
This half term we will reading and learning a variety of books linked to our theme ‘Minibeasts’. We will read stories, information books and poetry linked to a variety of minibeasts. Some of our key texts are Norman the Snail with a Silly Shell, Mad about Minibeasts and The Big Book of Bugs. We will look at the differences between information and story books. We will learn a poetry text map about minibeasts and perform this to parents and other children in the school. In our writing, we will use our knowledge of phonics and tricky words to label minibeasts, write phrases/sentences about minibeasts and make fact files. There will also be lots of opportunities in our continuous provision for writing and mark making.
Phonics – This half term we will be continuing to embed phase 3 graphemes and reviewing the phase 2 graphemes we have already taught this year. The new content that we will be learning this half term is:
Handwriting - We will be practising our letter formation and working hard on trying to make sure our letters are the same size and are sitting on the line.
Reading - We will continue reading in small groups 3 times a week, using our decoding skills learnt in phonics. Our three reading lessons will focus on decoding, prosody (reading with meaning) and comprehension (understanding the text).
Recommended Reads for Reception
Reading at KPS - Information for parents
Maths
This half term we will continue to use number sense to embed our knowledge of numbers 1-10. We will teach the children to compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity.
We will also support the children to explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally.
Other Areas of Learning
Understanding the World:
Our theme this half term is ‘Minibeasts’. We will dive deep into this topic across all areas of the curriculum. We will have weekly Forest School lessons, where the children will have opportunities to explore the environment and go on minibeast hunts using magnifying glasses. They will have access to a variety of mediums, including pencils, chalk, paint and oil pastels to make observational drawings of minibeasts they find. They will then use clay to create their own minibeast and finish off by painting them.
We will explore our playground and discuss how it is not very ‘minibeast friendly’ as there are no flowers, soil or natural habitats for minibeasts to live in. we will then create our own ‘minibeast hotel’ and plant a variety of plants and vegetables for minibeasts to thrive in.
We will continue to learn about seasons and look at how the weather and environment changes as we move into Spring.
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