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Over the course of this half term the prime areas of learning still play a key role within the children’s learning.  

We will continue to develop their listening and communication skills. Within PSHE the theme for this half term will be relationships and this will cover the following areas. We will be identifying some of the jobs they do in their family, how to make friends to stop myself from feeling lonely, thinking of ways to solve problems and stay friends, starting to understand the impact of unkind words, using ‘Calm Me’ Time to manage my feelings, know how to be a good friend.

Within literacy this half term we will be exploring a range of fiction and non-fiction books and continuing to develop he children’s range of vocabulary. We will learn a variety of different poems using poetry basket some examples of these are: I have a little Frog and Dance. The children will continue to develop their phonics knowledge and be able to read some letter groups that each represent one sound and say sounds for them. They will begin to read simple phrases and sentences made up of words with known letter–sound correspondences and, where necessary, a few exception words. Within writing the children will continue to build on knowledge of letter sounds to build words in writing. We will encourage and support writing in their play.

The focus for number this half term will be exploring numbers to 20 and beyond. The children will use their number knowledge of smaller numbers and apply them to the bigger numbers. We will be building numbers beyond 10 using a range of resources such as 10 frames and cubes. We will also explore counting patterns beyond 10.

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