Language & Literacy

Talking and Listening

• Speaking clearly using an extended gardening.
• vocabulary of words about flowers and
• Use language to imagine characters, events and feelings.
• Be able to share and co-operate in a pair, using talk to clarify ideas and feelings.
• Respond appropriately to questions.

Writing

• Write sentences to match pictures.
• Think about, discuss and rehearse what they intend to write, ahead of writing it.
• Expect written text to make sense and check if it does not.
• Use the capital ‘I’ when writing about themselves.
• Use experiences, stories and poems as a basis for writing.

Reading

• Be able to read a sentence they have written.
• Know that the grammar of a sentence can be used to predict and work out words.
• Be able to talk about the main characters and
• the setting of a story.
• Locate capital letters and full stops when reading.

Phonological Awareness

• Read a range of high frequency words in a variety of contexts.
• Use sounds to read and write three letter words such as ‘cat’ and ‘hut.’

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

• Recording sequences of events in simple stories and personal history, e.g. photographs of past holidays
• Talking about and sorting animals and plants both from the UK and other places around the world.
• Finding out how weather in different seasons affects living things.
• Learning that pushes and pulls can make things move.

Learning how to keep safe in the sun.