Language & Literacy – In this half term we will:

Talking and Listening

• To retell stories, to give main points in sequence and to pick out significant incidents.

Sentence Construction & Punctuation:

• To read recounts and begin to recognise generic structure, order of events, sequence words.

• To learn about word order by reordering sentences.

Reading

• To identify simple questions and use text to find answers.

• To read recounts and begin to recognise generic structure, order of events, sequence words.

Phonics & Spelling:

• Hear, read and spell initial, final and medial letter sounds in words.
• Understand two letters can make one sound.

Handwriting:

• Write lower and upper case letters using the correct sequence of movements , ensuring the correct letter orientation to write on lined paper.
• Tall, small and below the line letters.

Writing:

• To write simple accounts linked to topics using the language of texts read as models for own writing.
• Use phonological and graphic knowledge and sight vocabulary when spelling during writing tasks.

World Around Us (Topic Work) -  

Our topic in May and June will be ‘A Pirate Adventure!’

Geography

• To use language to identify position relative to other objects or places (P)
• To follow and to give simple directions to places in the immediate environment (P)
• To recognise different viewpoints e.g. from above, below, the side (P)

History

• To recognise and record the sequence of events in simple stories and in personal history e.g. photos and artefacts (COT)
• To find out about their own and other people’s history (COT)
• To use simple vocabulary in relation to the passage of time e.g. before/after (COT)

Science and Technology

• To identify push and pull (M&E)
• That pushes and pulls, including air and water, can make things move (M&E)
• That sounds come from a wide variety of sources and that people and other animals hear sounds with ears (P, M&E)
• That we can make sounds in a variety of ways and these sounds can be loud or quiet (M&E)