Curriculum Bulletin: Year R

People Who Help Us

Topic

• We learn about the real life super heroes that help us every day.
• We read lots of non-fiction books about superheroes and specifically look at the clothing they wear.
• We use our fire station role play area to create signs. This is a nice website with activities to help make Sparkton safer and this one with fire safety videos for children. 
• We talk about which adults are safe to give us medicine.
• We design, make and decorate superhero vehicles from junk modelling materials, here are last year’s vehicles to inspire you.
• We begin writing simple sentences to match superhero vehicles and how they help us by applying our phonics knowledge, hearing and writing main sounds in unknown words and writing taught high-frequency words from memory.

• Last year we had lots of real life superheroes come and join us to talk about what they do for their job, we hope you can help us out this year too, look who came.

Reading

•  We continue to look for the initial sounds in words and sound talk simple cvc words with support.
• We can spot more high frequency/tricky words within sentences and say them from memory. This is a good matching game.

Maths

• We begin to add two sets of objects together and find how many there are all together. Check this activity out for adding two sets together.
• We start to look at different coins and use these to buy superhero vehicles.

On 25th November we will be having a ‘People Who Help Us’ dress up day to end this fun topic, we look forward to seeing the different costumes.

Winter and Christmas

Topic/Reading

• We read the rhyming story ‘The Snowman’ and continue rhyming strings both orally and in writing.
• We read the ‘Nativity’ story and begin sequencing and retelling it in different ways for example with puppets and pictures. This helps us to act in our Christmas Performance, have a look at some of the parts your child could have this year.

• We continue to develop our reading and writing skills. Writing ever increasingly more tricky sentences and labels, using the high frequency words and phonics sounds we have learned. We are also reading harder sentences by applying everything we have learned so far.
• We create winter pictures on the computer program ‘Dazzle’ and begin to type a caption to match.
• We learn about how Christians celebrate Christmas and talk about what different families do.
• Christmas crafts play a big part of our last few weeks at school, we make cards, calendars and decorations for you to cherish at home, if you would like some ideas to do at home over the holidays, have a look at Activity Village.
• We will bake and decorate cookies, ready to eat at our Christmas party. A great way to finish our first full term at school.

Maths

• We begin to subtract numbers by taking sets away. Work out the answer here has good subtraction word problems to solve.
• We use Santa’s presents to describe and compare weights and use our hands and balances as a way of measuring.

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