Language & Literacy – During Term 3

Talking & Listening

• Listen to and follow instructions accurately.
• Speak clearly and audibly with confidence to a range of audiences.
• Identify environmental sounds. 
• Talk about the ideas represented in their drawings.

Reading (At appropriately differentiated levels)

• Participate in guided reading sessions and develop visual, meaning and grammar reading strategies. 
• Know how to handle and care for books.
• Recognise full-stops and capital letters when reading and name them correctly.

Writing (At appropriately differentiated levels) 

Sentence Construction & Punctuation:

• Use upper case letters and full stops to demarcate sentences.
• Dictated sentences from Sounds~write programme.
• Forming own sentences about a drawing.

Phonics & Spelling:

• Linking sounds to letters, sounding the letters of the alphabet.
• Hearing and saying sounds in order in words.
• Blending sounds to read and write CVC/CVCC and CCVC words/ extended code.

Handwriting:

• Use a comfortable and efficient pencil grip. 
• Write lower case letters using the correct sequence of movements. 
• Use finger spacing between words when writing.

Writing: 

• Write captions for their own work.
• Write and draw labels for everyday classroom use.

World Around Us (Topic Work) -  

Our topic is ‘Peter Rabbit’

Some of the activities we will be involved in are: 

• Planting seeds.
• Caring for animals – handling a pet rabbit.
• Life cycle of a sunflower.
• Life cycle of a butterfly – observe classroom caterpillars.
• Healthy food – vegetables and fruit – raw and cooked.
• Weather – different seasons.
• Nature walk around the school.
• Parts of a plant.
• Express their learning through paint, clay, sand, recycled materials and foliage.

ICT 

• Explore: Participate in whole class ICT activities. 
• Express: Create a simple picture using the interactive whiteboard and pen.
• Exchange: Find out information using television programmes.