Curriculum Bulletin: Year R

• During this topic we learn to use our senses to explore different objects.
• We learn about babies and growing up, how we change and the jobs adults do.
• We think about our families, drawing and labelling them and talk about how each family is different, but have the same love.
• We will create dens during ‘Explore and Discover’ time with the help of the Learning Ranger, just like last year!
• We read the book ‘Our Amazing Body’ and we learn how to label our different body parts, by sticking them in the correct place on the picture. Sing songs at home to help learn the names of different parts of the body like ‘heads, shoulders, knees and toes’
• We begin the ‘This is me’ bag so we can really get to know all of the children in the class as the year goes on. Here is Mr Taylor showing Year R his ‘This is me’ bag last year.

Reading

• We learn to hold a book correctly, turn the page from left to right and recognise some initial sounds/ high-frequency words.
• We learn to write our first names and name the letters correctly.
• We mark-make during 'Explore and Discover' and begin using the Writing Table and Book corner on our own and begin ascribing meanings to these marks we make.
• Don’t forget to sign up to Oxford Owl for FREE, to have access to lots of our Oxford Reading Tree books online.

Maths

• We learn to recognise numbers to 10 by ordering numbers, counting objects reliably and writing them in different ways. This is a good game for matching numbers counted to the correct digits.

• During this topic we read ‘The Little Red Hen’ together and act out the story. This is what we did last year.
• We look at the different seasons and think about the changes that happen for each one.
• We make autumn collages using objects that we have collected. Here are some autumn activities to inspire you at home.
• We label our autumn pictures using the initial sounds for each.
• We ascribe more meanings to our mark-making during self-initiated play.

Reading

• We begin to hear initial sounds in words when working with adults and pointing them out in the books we read. This game will help match initial sounds to pictures
• We begin singing the alphabet and put the letters into the correct order, naming them correctly.
• We develop an enjoyment for books by listening to stories and make suggestions about how they might end.
• We begin to hear rhymes.

Maths

• We continue to consolidate recognising numbers to 10, counting, ordering and writing the numbers.
• We learn to continue simple repeating patterns and begin creating our own using autumn objects like the repeating patterns on this site

Keep an eye on our posters each week for more specific updates and phonics sounds being taught to each group.