Spring 1
Communication and Language | We will continue to focus on back-and-forth interactions. We will help to articulate every child’s ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences. How can you support your child at home?
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Personal, Social and Emotional Development | We will encourage children to build constructive and respectful relationships. We will support them to find solutions to conflicts. How can you support your child at home?
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Physical Development | We will help children to develop core muscle strength to achieve a good posture, to do up zips on coats, to develop fine motor skills and to eat using a knife and fork. How can you support your child at home?
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Literacy | Reading | Writing |
We will explore six different texts this half term to support our English lessons. These are: Bumble Bear, The Naughty Bus, The Magic Paintbrush, Cinderella, Think big and Supertato. We will learn the story, understand the vocabulary and retell parts or all of the story. Alongside this, we will retell other storybooks and rhymes. How can you support your child at home?
| We will write according to each child’s own writing journey. Some children will be learning to write 3 letter CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words while those who are ready will be writing simple sentences. We will focus on the transcription of curly caterpillar family letters: c, a, d, g, o, q, s. How can you support your child at home?
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Maths | We will increase confidence in subitising by:
We will focus on cardinality, ordinality and counting to:
We will look at composition to:
We will use comparison to:
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Understanding the World | Most learning will be child led and incidental. Our directed teaching this half term will include themes around:
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Expressive Arts and Design | Building on our Christmas singing, we will remember and sing entire songs. We will encourage creativity and support children to use a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings. How can you support your child at home?
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