Curriculum Overview - Reception

Reception – Autumn Term 1 2015

Our theme for this Autumn Half-term is Ourselves.

Below is a list of areas for learning and development from the Early Years Foundation Stage that we will be working on this half term.

In order to work in partnership with you we have put together some ideas for how you can support your child at home with their learning.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Confident to try new activities, and say why they like some activities more than others.

• Talk about how they and others show feelings, talk about their own and others’ behaviour and its consequences, and know that some behaviour is unacceptable.

At home you can:

• Talk about likes and dislikes and how these may be the same or different to others. . E.g. ‘I am Jimmy and I am obsessed with snakes!’ Or ‘I am Eva and I hate spiders…’

• Take a digital photo of each child and print on A4. They stick this onto card. Then they draw a wiggly line down the middle and one or two wiggly lines across the picture. They cut it into 4 or 6 pieces and mount the pieces a little apart to create a fractured picture of themselves.

Understanding The World

• Talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.

• Make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.

At home you can:

• ICT: Animated alphabet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPY-FZT9ME8&feature=endscreen&NR=1. Use to highlight initial sounds of names.

• Set up a simple page allowing your child to match pictures with words by highlighting and moving the images.

• Play Simon says. Ask your child to point to parts of their body.

• Talk about going to Church/Mosque/Temple etc. For special occasions (e.g. baptisms christenings, funerals, weddings) or every week for worship or prayer.

• Show pictures of kittens /cats, puppies/dogs and other animal babies and adults. Talk about growing.

Literacy

• Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.

At home you can:

• Sort names by initial sound. Talk about words that start with the same sound, but may use a different letter. E.g. Sarah and Celia.

• Share books together and discuss those that they like and those that they don’t, giving reasons why.

• Practise writing their name/letters from their name using different tools e.g. in shaving foam, mud with sticks.

• Listen with attention to stories/relate to own experience e.g. You’re All Animals, Fingers and Toes, Titch, Little Monster Did It! etc.

Maths

• Count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number.

• Use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to solve problems.

At home you can:

• Make hand/foot prints and compare sizes.

• Make objects for counting from clay/play dough – How many have you made?

• Make birthday cake and put correct number of candles on for how old they are. Can they find the number on a number line? What no. comes next? Can they order the numbers?

Expressive Arts and Design

• They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories.

At home you can:

• Make pretend ‘tickets’ and print names on them – what film are you going to see? Or role-play involving the telephone. Children can ring up to make appointment. Give name. Children write names in appointments book.

• Where are we all living? Which town/village/part of the city? Which streets? Make a 3-d map of our immediate locality e.g. using plasticine on card.

Physical Development

• Show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements.

• Move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space.

At home you can:

• Discuss some of the games children play in the playground or at the beach. (Visit the park to explore the equipment or take a ball to play games).

• Play ‘Pet Dog’ or ‘Sea Creatures’ where children pretend to be a pet or sea animal and move as they do on your commands. Explore moving in different directions.