Language & Literacy

Talking and Listening

• Speaking clearly and audibly, with confidence.

• Be able to use props such as puppets, toys or story sacks when talking to the rest of the class.
• Ask and answer questions and recall the main events in a story.

Writing

• Writing labels or captions for pictures or drawings.
• Think about, discuss and rehearse what they intend to write, ahead of writing it.
• Select appropriate tools for a range of writing purposes.
• Be able to form and recognise the sounds h,o,s,t,i,c,y,e,s,f and use these to write words.

Reading

• Be able to read words printed or handwritten in a variety of settings and locate full stops and capital letters.
• Use a variety of sources of information when
• reading and re-read familiar texts.
• Be able to talk about the main characters and
• the setting of a story.

Phonological Awareness

• Read a range of high frequency words in a variety of contexts.
• Blend sounds to write and read cvc words, e.g mum, cat, dog.
• Know that letter names are not the same as letter sounds.

World Around Us (Topic Work) - Our topic this half term is ‘Food and farming’. We will be:

• Learning to recognise some of the jobs carried out in our community, e.g farmer, vet, dietician.
• Discovering how weather conditions affect people and animals throughout the year.
• Finding out about farming in the past through stories and memories.
• Learning the names of farm animals (baby names also) and plants.
• Finding out what produce we get from a sheep and a cow.