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Literacy, Language and Communication Oracy Skills

• Answer questions about something that has been said – in relation to

fiction and non-fiction books about reptiles…. • Retelling a story using words and actions ‘The Snake ate my Homework!’ • Retell the story of the Chinese New Year • Making reptile silhouette stories with friends…

Reading/Phonics Skills • Decoding phonic words • Daily Jolly Phonics – Phase 2 and 3 • Carousel activities • Guided reading • Themed library and role play area Writing • Mark making opportunities – paint, sand, tracing, large paper with pens

and pencils, water and brushes, chalks, messy play etc. • Penpals handwriting books • Daily carousel activities • Writing opportunities in all class areas • Hand exercises, flexibility and pencil hold (crocodile). • Overwriting and copying patterns/words/phrases • Writing challenge table using themed word mats and WOW words • Typing name using Pages/Seesaw • Big Write every Friday • Chinese New Year cards • Valentine cards • Reptile fact books

Why don’t snakes have legs? Spring 1 2019

Reception Class

Mathematical Development Number Skills

• Daily CLIC activites (Little, Big Maths) • Counting reliably up to 10/20/100 in 1’s, 5’s, 10’s • For Chinese New Year, making a dragon number line! • I can add up two groups of numbers • I can take one away and tell you, how many left?

Measuring skills

• Making direct comparisons with length, height and distance – measuring snakes!

• Moving our bee-bot in given directions • Comparing temperatures – why do reptiles live in hot countries?

Health and Wellbeing

• Daily show and tell • Weekly circle time • Daily assemblies • Growth Mindset with the Little Miss and Mr Men • Trying new foods – Chinese New YEar • Working as part of a group • Yoga • Weekly PE sessions • The Mixed Up Chameleon – What makes me happy? • Looking after an egg • How to look after a reptile

Humanities

• Features of a sea turtle • Labeling a diagram of a reptile • What is a carnivore? Omnivore? Herbivore? • Hatching • Making animal homes • Looking at similarities and differences between reptiles • Learning facts about the habitat and reptiles that live in

Madagascar

ICT/Digital Competency

• Maintaining their new Seesaw accounts • Programming our Beebot! • Understanding how data can be shared online • Creating a digital painting using Seesaw • Using the computer suite

Welsh Language Development

• Greeting ‘bore da’ ‘hwyl fawr’ hwyl fawr ffrindiau song…. • Following commands - Gwrandewch, ‘Dyma’r ffordd i olchi dwylo’

(wash hands), amser snac • Flic a Flac/Tedi a Doli ‘dyma fi’; Pwy wyt ti? Sut wyt ti? ….ydw i,

wedi blino, iawn etc • HWB resources • Diolch/os gwelwch yn dda • Un, dau, tri, pedwar, pump etc up to 15 • Following commands ‘amser chwarae’ ‘amser snac’ etc • Sut mae’r tywydd heddiw? Mae hi’n …….gymylog, wyntog, heulog,

bwrw glaw, bwrw eira, braf, stormus. • Penblwydd Hapus • Ble mae? Where is? • Coch, melyn, oren, gwyrdd, glas, du, llwyd, porfor, pinc, brown. • Gwrandewch/ amser tacluso / amser chwarae / amser cinio etc. • Eisteddfod practice

RE

• Termly value • Buddhism • Weekly assembly with Rev Heather

Creative Development Music

• Learning ‘Gonna Take You There’ – from the Princess and the Frog

• New song ‘I’m being eaten!’ body movements and instruments • Adding percussion instruments to stories • Supermovers

Art & Craft

• Animal camouflage • Valentine cards • Chinese New Year cards • Salt dough snake

Continuous Provision/Role Play/Outside Playdough

• Playdough mats; letter and numbers; winter animals, cutters, rollers, stamps, feathers and buttons

Construction • Lego, mobile, marble run, cogs and wheels, stickle

bricks, pegs and boards, elastic bands and boards, drill and screw boards, Numicon, magnetic shapes

Small world • Animals, cars, garages, dolls houses, tuff spot,

wooden blocks. Role-play

• Pet shop Outside

• Mud kitchen; construction, sand, building blocks, den, chalking, paintbrushes, looking after the plants.

Physical Development

• Ball skills – show control in throwing and catching; control over a large ball; take part in team games involving ball skills.

• Team games • Dance