Welcome to Reception
This term our topic is 'We are Storytellers!'
We will be learning about Traditional Tales and life in Castles. We will also be learning about Easter and why it is important.
This term our topic is ‘We are Storytellers!’. We will be focusing on Traditional Tales and life in Castles.
Communication & Language - We will be focusing on our listening skills and talking to others about stories we have read. We will be answering questions and focusing on conversations with others.
Physical Development - We will be focusing on moving in different ways, holding a pencil correctly and improving our fine motor with playdough, threading, tweezers etc. We will be learning how to throw and catch a ball.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development - Children will be able to:
Here are some ideas of activities to support with your child's emotional and social development based on what we have been doing in school:
https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/family-scarf/scarf-at-home/keeping-myself-safe-3-5-years
https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/family-scarf/scarf-at-home/rights-and-responsibilities-3-5-years
Understanding the World: Children will be learning about different places and how cold places are different to where we live. We will be learning about Polar Explorers and explorers that went to Space. We will also be learning about Chinese New Year. In Term 4, we will be learning about Kings and Queens and what life was like in a castle. We will be learning about same and different homes.
Expressive Arts and Design: Children will be focusing on drawing and painting skills. They will be painting pictures of the Northern Lights with Polar Animals in them. We will be exploring colour mixing and making different shades of the same colour. We will be looking at using different tools and materials and re-enacting familiar scenes from everyday life in the Home Corner. In DT we wil be making moving models and using split pins to make an Easter Card.
In Music, we will be learning to sing the following songs and action songs:
Phonics and Writing: We will be continuing to learn our Phase 3 sounds. We will be focusing on reading and writing these sounds and reading words with them in. We will be writing captions and short sentences.
Maths: We will be looking at numbers 1-10, subitising (knowing how many there are without counting) numbers to 5. Before half term we will focus on 6,7 and 8. We will be learning about odd and even numbers. We will be exploring the number zero. We will also be learning about length, height and time. We will be consolidating our knowledge of numbers, looking at 9 and 10. We will be learning about doubling numbers and what double a number is. We will be learning about different ways to measure things and ordering events and time. We will also be learning about 3D shapes.
These are some of the things we will be learning in Reception.
These are what children need to achieve at the end of Reception to be 'expected'. These are the goals we will be working towards during the year.