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Autumn 2

 

During the Autumn 2 term Receptions' topic will ‘Totally Awesome Tales.’ We aim to foster a love of learning for all the children. 

Over the course of this half term we will be exploring the possible themes of Autumn, Bonfire Night, Fire Services, Diwali and Christmas. Within Early Years we love to use a variety of books to support and develop children’s learning. Some of the Books we will look at are Owl Babies, It was a Cold, Dark Night, Rama and Sita, Dear Father Christmas and Dogger’s Christmas. ​

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Within literacy we will continue to develop their phonics knowledge and love of reading. We will be starting level 3 phonics the first week back. We will be working hard on learning our level 3 sounds and introducing more diagraphs and trigraphs within this level.  There will be a greater focus on developing our oral blending and segmenting of simple words. As a class we will continue with our small group reading sessions. We will continue to explore more books and learn the skills we need to become confident readers. Children will enjoy learning new rhymes, songs and poems linked to Charanga and Poetry Basket. Within our writing we will be working hard on developing the children’s pencil grip and encouraging them to mark make and draw using increasing control. Children will develop their skills to orally spell VC words such as of and up and CVC words such as hat, map and bug. We will be working hard to ensure children can write their own name and form these letters correctly.

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 Within number this half term we will be focusing on representing 1,2,3, comparing numbers 1,2,3. We will look at the composition of these numbers and the formation. We will introduce circles and triangles and ensure the children know the correct vocabulary to use when describing and comparing these shapes. We will also be concentrating on positional language.​ Within the second half of the term we will introduce the number four and start to explore 1 more and 1 less. We will also introduce the concept of time, we will do this by focusing on Night and Day.

 

Within PE this half term there will be 2 main focusses for the children. On Wednesdays they will be working on dynamic balance to agility. This will be taught through jumping and landing. They will also be developing their seated balance techniques. On Fridays the focus will be dance. 

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​Our PSED theme this half term is 'Celebrating Differences' The knowledge skills we will be looking at are:

Knowing what being proud means and that people can be proud of different things. Knowing that people can be good at different things. Knowing what being unique means and that families can be different. The children will explore and know that people have different homes and why they are important to them. We will also identify feelings associated with being proud and identify things they are good at. Children will be able to vocalise success for themselves and about others successes. They will identify some ways they can be different and the same as others and recognise similarities and differences between their family and other families. We will introduce new vocabulary such as; Different, Special, Proud, Friends, Kind, Same, Similar, Happy, Sad, Frightened, Angry, Family, Unique