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Year R

Spring 2

Bears Bears Everywhere

Our books and rhymes:

  • Goldilocks and the three bears
  • Going on a bear hunt
  • Everywhere bear
  • Brown bear
  • Paddington

Our PSE:

  • Building resilience
  • Becoming independent
  • Developing a ' i can attitude'
  • Developing understanding of feelings and our own emotions
  • Developing our understanding of others and their feelings

Our Writing:

  • Drawing Club
  • Story Maps- Bear hunt
  • Segmenting and blending the sounds we can hear in words
  • Having our own ideas of what to write- think it, say it then write it
  • Applying our phonic knowledge

Our Maths:

  • Counting values to 20
  • Place value 0-20
  • Subitising 0-20
  • Recording calculations through drawings and notations
  • 2D and 3D shape knowledge
  • Recognising patterns

Our PD:

  • Developing building a sequence of balances together
  • Fine motor control activities
  • Moving and responding to music using our bodies

Our Knowledge and Understanding of the world:

  • Building our knowledge of important places to people in our community
  • Look at changes in the seasons and the world surrounding us
  • Explore the great outdoors through Forest School

Our Expression art and design:

  • Develop independence in using a range of taught fixing skills
  • Build our bank of songs and rhymes known
  • Develop the use of story language when creating our own stories during times such as helicopter stories, in our creative play and writing. 

Spring 1

How big is a beast?

Our books and rhymes: 

  • Lost and found
  • The Big Book of Beasts
  • The something o'saur
  • The Odd Egg

Our PSE:

  • building relationships 
  • taking turns
  • begin to understand the feelings of others
  • Understanding my own emotions

Our Writing:

  • Drawing club 
  • Listening for sounds
  • Forming the letters of the alphabet 
  • Segmenting and blending the sounds i can hear in a word
  • Having my own ideas what to write- think it, say it then write it

Our Maths:

  • Counting values to 20
  • Place value 0-20
  • Ordering numbers 0-20
  • shape - circle, triangle, square, rectangle 

Our PD:

  • using equipment to practice balance, agility and co-ordination 
  • activities to improve tripod/pincer grips 
  • Creating a sequence using PE equipment
  • Learning to use Wheelie board
  • Growing in confidence using the bikes 

Our Understanding the world: 

  • using senses to explore the world around us 
  • understand that places are special to members of our community 
  • look at the changing seasons
  • describe what they see hear and feel while outside 
  • Exploring and learning more about the great outdoors through Forest School

Our expressive art and design:

  • continue to develop skills in order to use equipment (scissors, glue, staplers, hole punch, tape)
  • participate in pretend/imaginary play using resources 
  • sing simple songs and rhymes together linked to the Christmas performance 
  • Devleoping our story telling and performing through Helicopter Stories.

Autumn Term 2

Traditions 

Our books and rhymes: 

  • Gingerbread man
  • Humpty Dumpty 
  • Polly put the kettle on 
  • There's an Elf in your book

Our PSE:

  • building relationships 
  • taking turns
  • begin to understand the feelings of others

Our Writing:

  • Name writing
  • Drawing club 
  • Listening for sounds
  • Forming the letters of the alphabet 

Our Maths:

  • Counting values to 10
  • Place value 0-10
  • Ordering numbers 0-10
  • shape - circle, triangle, square, rectangle 

Our PD:

  • using equipment to practice balance, agility and co-ordination 
  • activities to improve tripod/pincer grips 

Our Understanding the world: 

  • using senses to explore the world around us 
  • understand that places are special to members of our community 
  • look at the changing seasons
  • describe what they see hear and feel while outside 

Our expressive art and design:

  • continue to develop skills in order to use equipment (scissors, glue, staplers, hole punch, tape)
  • participate in pretend/imaginary play using resources 
  • sing simple songs and rhymes together linked to the Christmas performance 

Autumn Term 1

All about me 

Our books: 

  • You Choose
  • Super Duper You
  • We are all Welcome
  • Our School is a family
  • Can I Play?
  • On the way to school

Our PSE:

  • learning names 
  • building new relationships 
  • taking turns
  • begin to understand the feelings of others

Our Writing:

  • Name writing
  • Created class You choose books
  • Conker families
  • Leaf names
  • mark making- magic spells

Our Maths:

  • Counting to 5
  • Place value 0-10
  • Recognising the number on the spider and drawing the correct amount of legs
  • Ordering numbers 0-10
  • Recognising  and exploring 2D shapes

Our PD:

  • using equipment to practice balance, agility and co-ordination 
  • activities to improve tripod/pincer grips 

Our Understanding the world: 

  • using senses to explore the world around us 
  • discuss families 
  • explore how things work through exploratory play 

Our expressive art and design:

  • learn to use equipment (scissors, glue, staplers, hole punch, tape)
  • participate in pretend/imaginary play 
  • sing simple songs and rhymes together