Language & Literacy Talking and Listening

· Taking turns to speak

· Asking and answering questions, recall the main events in a story.

Writing:

· Hold their pencil using the correct pencil grip.

· Controlling the pencil along different shapes and lines

· Correct use of scissors

· Tracing/Writing their name

· Letter formation

· Select appropriate tools for a range of writing purposes.

· Using our phonic knowledge to help us with our own writing.

Reading:

· Enjoying stories

· Be able to talk about a part of the story that they really enjoyed.

· Be able to talk about the main characters and the setting of a story.

Phonics:

· Blend sounds together to make words.

· Learning that a spelling can be represented by more than one sound.

World Around Us (Topic Work) - Our topic this half term is ‘Summer’ .

· Recording sequences of events in simple stories and personal history, e.g. photographs of past holidays

· Talking about and sorting animals and plants both from the UK and other places around the world.

· Finding out how weather in different seasons affects living things.

· Learning that pushes and pulls can make things move.

· Learning how to keep safe in the sun.