During this first term we will be learning all about ourselves - what we look like, where we live and how our bodies work.

As communicators we will be:

• Using the past and present tense correctly
• Naming a variety of body parts, including some bones and organs
• Retelling stories in our play

As readers and writers we will be:

• Creating story maps
• Sequencing stories
• Learning all of the alphabet sounds and how to write them
• Listening for initial sounds in words and trying to use them in our writing
• Having a go at segmenting  CVC words so that we can write simple label
• Blending CVC words to read them
• Retelling and joining in with familiar stories

As mathematicians we will be:

• Measuring and comparing our height and our shoe size
• Counting actions and objects, trying to learn how to do 1:1 counting
• Learning different strategies to make our counting more accurate
• Learning to recognise numbers to 10 and count beyond orally

As scientists, historians and geographers we will be:

• Learning about why we have a skeleton and locate some of the bones in our bodies
• Looking at what is the same and different about the children in our class
• Able to talk about who is in our family and some of the traditions we follow
• Thinking about how we have changed, what we were like in the past and how we are now