Language & Literacy

Talking and Listening

· Speaking clearly and audibly, with confidence.

· Be able to use props such as puppets, toys or story sacks when talking to the rest of the class.

· Ask and answer questions and recall the main events in a story.

Writing

· Writing labels or captions for pictures or drawings.

· Think about, discuss and rehearse what they intend to write, ahead of writing it.

· Select appropriate tools for a range of writing purposes.

· Be able to form and recognise the sounds x, y, z, ll, ff, zz and ss and use these to write words.

Reading

· Be able to read words printed or handwritten in a variety of settings and locate full stops and capital letters.

· Use a variety of sources of information when reading and re-read familiar texts.

· Be able to talk about the main characters and the setting of a story.

Phonological Awareness

· Read a range of high frequency words in a variety of contexts.

· Blend sounds to write and read cvc words, e.g mum, cat, dog.

· Know that letter names are not the same as letter sounds.

World Around Us (Topic Work) - Our topic this half term is ‘On the Farm’.

We will be:

· Learning to recognise some of the jobs carried out in our community, e.g farmer, vet, dietician.

· Discovering how weather conditions affect people and animals throughout the year.

· Finding out about farming in the past through stories and memories.

· Learning the names of farm animals (baby names also) and plants.

· Finding out what produce we get from a sheep and a cow.