Language & Literacy – During Term 1

TALKING & LISTENING

• Developing active listening skills.
• Sharing as a class and in groups, ideas and experiences.

READING (At appropriately differentiated levels)

• Recognising and reading high frequency words quickly in context.
• Reading for meaning – answering questions on the text.
• Developing phrasing and fluency.

WRITING (At appropriately differentiated levels)

We will be working on correct letter formation, sizing and spacing, including writing on lines.

We will also be carrying out modelled, shared and guided work on:

• Segmenting and blending phonemes to build words.
• Writing simple sentences.
• Writing simple instructions using command verbs.
• Using time language.

World Around Us (Topic Work)

Our topic this first half term is ‘Happy Healthy Bodies’. The children will not only be developing knowledge and skills in various area of the curriculum but will also be learning how to keep healthy.

Some of the activities we will be involved in include:

• Feely bag senses tasks
• Labelling body parts
• Learning action songs involving body parts (exercise)
• Keeping a food diary at home
• Finding out about healthy food
• Designing a healthy lunchbox
• Making fresh fruit salad
• Fruit and vegetable art work

Our topic during the second half term is ‘Polar Lands’.  The children will learn map skills including continents, oceans, North and South Pole as well as animals found in these areas.

Some activities we will be involved in include:

• Designing a base camp
• Making an igloo
• How to stay warm in extreme cold.
• The life of penguins and polar bears.
• Aurora Art