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Reception Pop In. Autumn Term 2. Our curriculum. Our Reception curriculum is divided into 6 Areas of Learning: Personal, Social and Emotional Development Communication, Language and Literacy Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy Knowledge and Understanding of the World
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Reception Pop In Autumn Term 2
Our curriculum Our Reception curriculum is divided into 6 Areas of Learning: • Personal, Social and Emotional Development • Communication, Language and Literacy • Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy • Knowledge and Understanding of the World • Physical Development • Creative Development
Entitlement Foundation Stage children are entitled to: • 50% teacher-led and 50% child-initiated activities • 50% indoor and 50% outdoor learning
Topics Term 1 • Looking after Ourselves Term 2 • In the Woods Seasonal changes, woodland creatures and their habitats • Christmas Christmas performance: Thursday 8th (pm) and Friday 9th (am) December
Creative Activities • Exploring the nature area • Leaf rubbings and printing • Acting out stories (We’re going on a bear hunt, Owl babies, The Gruffalo) • Fingerprint owls • Salt dough hedgehogs • Making a habitat for a toy animal • Christmas cards • Christmas decorations • Christmas nativity • Christmas entertainer
Daily activities • Registration • Assembly • Day, date, weather • Morning milk and fruit time • Phonics • Playtime • Lunchtime • Singing • Story • Home time
Help your child to read • Read stories to them – dad as well as mum. • Let children see you reading. • Read notices in the environment. • Your child will bring home 2 books each week, one which we choose and one of their choice. • Books are changed on Fridays, so please ensure they are in your child’s reading bag on that day. Make reading a pleasure!
Reading with your child • Find a quiet place to sit and enjoy the book together. • Let your child hold the book. • Talk about the cover. What does he/she think the book is about? • Who is the author and who is the illustrator? What do they mean? • Encourage your child to turn the pages independently, from the front to the back. • Talk about the pictures on each page. What can they see? What do they think is happening? • Help your child identify the text. Encourage them to point to each word from left to right as you or your child decodes the text. • Look out for any repetitive text in the book. • Encourage your child to ‘sound out’ words using their phonic knowledge (c-a-t, d-o-g). • Help them recognise ‘tricky words’ which you know they have learnt. • Can your child predict what will happen next in the story? • At the end of the story, can they tell you what it was about?
Writing During writing activities, we focus on: • ensuring an efficient pencil grip • ensuring correct letter formation • modelling writing • ‘talk for writing’ • sounding words out (segmenting) • reading the words / sentence back
Numeracy We are focusing this term on: • Counting in ones to 10 • Being able to count on from a given number within 10 • Counting backwards from 10 • Understanding the concepts of more and less • Understanding the concepts of adding and subtracting • Matching and sorting activities • Recognising simple 2-D shapes and talk about their properties • Being able to talk about, recognise and recreate patterns • Recognising and ordering numerals to 10 • Writing numerals to 10 • Using mathematical ideas to solve problems
Homework • Sounds books – practise four or five times a week. • Reading school books and other books from home. • Encourage writing activities – eg. shopping lists, names in cards etc. • Check out our Foundation Stage page on our school website for some ideas of other sites with activities to support your child’s learning. Visit www.st-john.lincs.sch.uk.
Housekeeping • Name clothes, water bottles, lunch boxes and fruit containers. • Encourage your child to be independent and to take responsibility for their belongings. • Encourage your child to dress and undress themselves. Encourage your child to put sleeves the right way round when they take off their coats and jumpers. • Please make sure your child’s pink sounds book is kept in their reading bag. • Please check book bags each day for letters etc. • Please inform us of any changes to personal details.
And finally … Reception staff are available before and after school each day. Mrs Sally Hare – class teacher Miss Amy Gardner – class teacher Mrs Sharon Louth – teaching assistant Mrs Clare Rangeley – teaching assistant Please feel free to come and see us if you have any questions or concerns. THANK YOU!