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