Language & Literacy

Talking and Listening

• Join in with repetitive refrains and rhymes.
• Listen to and follow instructions.
• Take turns in conversations and discussions.

Writing

• Writing their name using the correct formation.
• Understanding how writing is formed from left to right, a word at a time and how letters are formed.
• Knowing that print carries meaning and in English is read from left to right and top to bottom.
• Distinguish between writing and drawing.

Reading

• Using pictures to tell a story.
• Understand that words can be written down and read again for different purposes.
• Track the text in the correct order.
• Make one to one correspondences between written and spoken words.

Phonics

• Learning the skills of blending, segmenting and phoneme manipulation using sounds ‘v, k, l, r, u, j, w, z, x and y’.

World Around Us (Topic Work) -

Our topic this half term is ‘Brilliant Bears’. We will be:

• making porridge and sequencing the steps involved in making this.
• Looking at real bears both old and new and discussing similarities and differences.
• Measuring bears.
• Discovering the types of real bears that live in cold and warm places.
• Complete science experiments to explore how polar bears stay warm and what happens to gummy bears in water.